Why is it that the modern world has abandoned God, or removed Him from the first position? It seems to be a very heated debate when matters of religion and faith are discussed in the modern day. One needs to be able to step back and understand both sides of the argument to be able to acquire a satisfactory knowledge and be able to debate intelligently one’s own position. It is through self-reliance and the scientific progress that man has made, that gives him reason to discard or downgrade the importance of God. In addition, if the believers do not acquire a proper catechesis of one’s own faith, then they can be propagating erroneous teachings and driving people away from God and religion. Because of these factors, man has distanced himself
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This is another mistake that the critics of the Church make when they do not do their due diligence by researching what is actually taught by the Church, and instead they rely on the actions of believers that do not fully understand the faith themselves. The Church answers this with their doctrine and makes it clear that evils, sickness and death are not inflicted on us as punishment by God, but that people may be responsible for some of their own misery. The Church states in Gaudium et Spes, that man has made great and amazing advancements that even surpass their own full comprehension, and these advancements have some negative consequences (§4). These negative consequences that come from humans interacting in the world, this would be the evils that people could attribute to God and is most likely what Hume has experienced in his own life. This notion would be through ignorance of faith, religion, nature and science, that one would agree with Hume and blame God for all the evils in the world. In Hume’s day, sickness, deformities, and other problems that may have been attributed to God would have most likely come from poor sewage, water pollution, industrial pollution, and other such human causes. Today we see other causes that would add to those already listed and …show more content…
The Church has the wisdom to be able to take these events of modern time and be able to relate them to the Gospel and the teaching of Jesus Christ. Since science does not have all the answers to the issues and problems of the world, we need to turn to a religion that is founded in faith and reason. Science cannot explain with empirical evidence how the universe was created or why we die and what is expected after death. This is where the Church can help in providing answers to our unexplained yearnings for some higher superhuman explanation for our existence. The Church says that “man would not exist were he not created by God’s love and constantly preserved by it; and he cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and devotes himself to His Creator” (§19). For it is in God’s love we were created and remain, because if God’s love ends we would simply cease to exist. The Church’s answer to Hume, other critics, unbelievers and malformed believes, is that one must take initiative to be informed of all aspects of the argument. The Church also says that “the mystery of man, and it is a great one, as seen by believers in the light of Christian revelation. Through Christ and in Christ, the riddles of sorrow and death grow meaningful. Apart from His Gospel, they overwhelm
This is another mistake that the critics of the Church make when they do not do their due diligence by researching what is actually taught by the Church, and instead they rely on the actions of believers that do not fully understand the faith themselves. The Church answers this with their doctrine and makes it clear that evils, sickness and death are not inflicted on us as punishment by God, but that people may be responsible for some of their own misery. The Church states in Gaudium et Spes, that man has made great and amazing advancements that even surpass their own full comprehension, and these advancements have some negative consequences (§4). These negative consequences that come from humans interacting in the world, this would be the evils that people could attribute to God and is most likely what Hume has experienced in his own life. This notion would be through ignorance of faith, religion, nature and science, that one would agree with Hume and blame God for all the evils in the world. In Hume’s day, sickness, deformities, and other problems that may have been attributed to God would have most likely come from poor sewage, water pollution, industrial pollution, and other such human causes. Today we see other causes that would add to those already listed and …show more content…
The Church has the wisdom to be able to take these events of modern time and be able to relate them to the Gospel and the teaching of Jesus Christ. Since science does not have all the answers to the issues and problems of the world, we need to turn to a religion that is founded in faith and reason. Science cannot explain with empirical evidence how the universe was created or why we die and what is expected after death. This is where the Church can help in providing answers to our unexplained yearnings for some higher superhuman explanation for our existence. The Church says that “man would not exist were he not created by God’s love and constantly preserved by it; and he cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and devotes himself to His Creator” (§19). For it is in God’s love we were created and remain, because if God’s love ends we would simply cease to exist. The Church’s answer to Hume, other critics, unbelievers and malformed believes, is that one must take initiative to be informed of all aspects of the argument. The Church also says that “the mystery of man, and it is a great one, as seen by believers in the light of Christian revelation. Through Christ and in Christ, the riddles of sorrow and death grow meaningful. Apart from His Gospel, they overwhelm