Faith is first of all a personal adherence of man to God. At the same time, and inseparably, it is a free assent to the whole truth that God has revealed. As personal adherence to God and assent to his truth. Christian faith differs from our faith in any human person. It is right and just to entrust oneself wholly to God and to believe absolutely what he says. It would be futile and false to place such faith in a creature. - CCC 150 -
Yahweh says this:
'A curse on the man who puts his trust in man,
who relies on things of flesh,
whose heart turns from Yahweh.
He is like dry scrub in the wastelands;
if good comes, he has no eyes for it,
he settles in the parched of the wilderness,
a salt land, uninhabited.
'A blessing on the man who puts his trust in Yahweh,
with Yahweh for his hope. - Jer. 17:5-7 -
Do not put your trust in men in power,
or in any mortal man - he cannot save,
he yields his breath and goes back to the earth he came from,
and on that day all his schemes perish. - Psalms 146:3-4 -
It is only on account of this that I am experiencing fresh hardships here now; but I have not lost confidence, because I know it is that I have put my trust in, and I have no doubt at all that he is able to take care of all that I have entrusted to him until that Day. - 2Tim. 1:12 -
For a Christian, believing in God cannot be separated from believing in the One he sent, his "beloved Son." in whom the Father is "well pleased"; God tells us to listen to him. The Lord himself said to his disciples: "Believe in God, believe also in me." We can believe in Jesus Christ because he is himself God, the Word made flesh; "No one has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known. Because he "has seen the Father", Jesus Christ is the only one who knows him and can reveal him. - CCC 151 -
No one has ever seen God;
it is the only Son, who is nearest to the Father's heart,
who has made him known. - John 1:18 - Matt. 11:27 -
And a voice came from heaven, 'You are my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on you.' - Mark 1:11, 9:7 -
One cannot believe in Jesus Christ without sharing in his Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who reveals to men who Jesus is. For "no one can say 'Jesus is Lord', except by the Holy Spirit, who "searches everything, even the depths of God...No one comprehends the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God." Only God knows God completely: we believe in the Holy Spirit because he is God. - CCC 152 -
These are the very things that God has revealed to us through the Spirit, for the Spirit reaches the depths of everything, even the depths of God. After all, the depths of a man can only be known by his own spirit, not by any other man, and in the same depths of God can only be known by the Spirit of God. - 1Cor. 2:10-11 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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