Is It Possible to Know God from Our Limit Knowledge?
The catechism of the Catholic Church begins by asking what the meaning of “believe” is. It affirms that man’s answer to God, who reveals and gives Himself to man, is faith. This provides to man the superabundant light, which man needs, to make sense of the ultimate goal of man’s life. Faith is thus the result of an encounter. God wants to reveal Himself while man has a permanent desire to seek for God in his life. Hence, that the first part of the Catechism dedicates to talk about man’s intense search for God.
The search for God is born from the desire that is infused into man’s heart for God. It is God Himself, creator of man, who inserts this desire in man’s inner self. This is a desire …show more content…
Is human language capable of speaking about God? How? Under what circumstances? Indeed, deeply religious man and women have come to say that God exists and that He communicates with His most beloved creation and that man is able to respond to Him. However, the problem rests in that God is ineffable, which implies that nothing can really be said about Him acutely. In this way, the attempt to name Him would be blasphemous and irreverent. In this sense, Silence would, on the other hand, would be the most eloquent word about God. Yet, in an extreme way, if one still attempts to speak about God, it would be wise to use the so-called apophatic language, which implies that it is better to speak about what God is not and what basically does no other thing that denying any determination or any concept that intends to speak about …show more content…
Only in that way, it is possible to comprehend that referring to Him as Father is the best possible way to approach Him. Moreover, when man refers to God as Father, it is not a human invention. He does so following Jesus Christ’s example. He revealed Himself as Son. For that reason, Christians firmly believe that God is Father because He has always had a son who is consubstantial with Him, eternal like Him, begotten not made. It is, therefore, the content of Christian revelation, which gives true meaning to the terms that are used in theology to speak and makes reference to God and His mystery and not vice
The catechism of the Catholic Church begins by asking what the meaning of “believe” is. It affirms that man’s answer to God, who reveals and gives Himself to man, is faith. This provides to man the superabundant light, which man needs, to make sense of the ultimate goal of man’s life. Faith is thus the result of an encounter. God wants to reveal Himself while man has a permanent desire to seek for God in his life. Hence, that the first part of the Catechism dedicates to talk about man’s intense search for God.
The search for God is born from the desire that is infused into man’s heart for God. It is God Himself, creator of man, who inserts this desire in man’s inner self. This is a desire …show more content…
Is human language capable of speaking about God? How? Under what circumstances? Indeed, deeply religious man and women have come to say that God exists and that He communicates with His most beloved creation and that man is able to respond to Him. However, the problem rests in that God is ineffable, which implies that nothing can really be said about Him acutely. In this way, the attempt to name Him would be blasphemous and irreverent. In this sense, Silence would, on the other hand, would be the most eloquent word about God. Yet, in an extreme way, if one still attempts to speak about God, it would be wise to use the so-called apophatic language, which implies that it is better to speak about what God is not and what basically does no other thing that denying any determination or any concept that intends to speak about …show more content…
Only in that way, it is possible to comprehend that referring to Him as Father is the best possible way to approach Him. Moreover, when man refers to God as Father, it is not a human invention. He does so following Jesus Christ’s example. He revealed Himself as Son. For that reason, Christians firmly believe that God is Father because He has always had a son who is consubstantial with Him, eternal like Him, begotten not made. It is, therefore, the content of Christian revelation, which gives true meaning to the terms that are used in theology to speak and makes reference to God and His mystery and not vice