Because God is infinite, there is no distinction between His attributes and Himself. This is difficult to put briefly, but we must try. Take knowledge, and begin with our own. My knowing is something that I do, but it is not myself. This may not strike us a limitation, but it is a considerable one. If only my knowledge were myself, I should be knowing all the time, simply by being. I should not have to make a distinct effort to know; I should never forget, But, as it is, my knowledge is less than myself; I am finite enough, heaven knows, but my knowledge is more finite still.
Now, God's knowing is not subject to this limitation. It is not distinct from Himself. It is Himself. If it were not, if there were really a distinction between His knowledge and Himself, then He would have something that His knowledge lacked. In that event His knowledge would not be infinite, and we should have to face the monstrosity of an infinite God with limited knowledge.
This applies to all His attributes. Just as God is knowledge, so He is love, He is justice, He is mercy, we have to think of them as distinct in order to think of them at all; but in Him they are not distinct from His very self, and therefore not from one another, whatever God has He is. And these attributes are not less themselves for being infinite. God's love would not be greater by being distinct from His very self as our is.
It is difficult ideas for our minds. But then God must be mysterious to the being He made of nothing. live with it, keep it in mind. Our feeling that the attributes must be distinct will grow less, and we shall begin to "see" their oneness in God.
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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 -
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The first great activity of the infinite Spirit is knowing, with us this activity involves an immensity of change, learning what we had not known, forgetting what we had; in both cases the change comes from our finiteness in the one case from ignorance in the other from a defect of memory. But God knows all things merely by being God, and there is no forgetfulness of him. His activity of knowing is at once limitless and changeless; He is omniscient.
His other great activity is loving; and that again for peoples involves change, waxing and waning, finding new objects, losing hold upon things already loved; here again the change come from our limitations God loves with infinite loving-power; no loss possible; no increase conceivable, He knows and loves with infinite intensity, and this is not stagnation but measureless vitality.
God is all-powerful too. There are no limits to what He can do, no limits to what He can make. The most powerful person cannot make anything of nothing at all. He and she needs some material to work upon, and in the absence of material his and her power must lie all locked up within him and her and not use-able. That is a solid limitation, and God lacks it. He needs no material-he creates.
"Can God make a weight so heavy that He cannot lift?" asks the unbeliever. He and she feels and has us cornered. If we say yes, then God cannot lift it; if we say no, then God cannot make it. (The reader might do well to pause here and think out how he and she would answer this). Our reply is that God can indeed do all things, but self-contradiction is not a thing. God cannot make a four-sided triangle, because the terms contradict each other and cancel out. A four-sided triangle is meaningless; it is not a thing at all, it is nothing. A weight that an almighty Being cannot lift is as much a contradiction in terms as a four-sided triangle. It is too nothing, And (to give an old text a new emphasis) nothing is impossible to God. Because God is infinite, there is........................
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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 -
His other great activity is loving; and that again for peoples involves change, waxing and waning, finding new objects, losing hold upon things already loved; here again the change come from our limitations God loves with infinite loving-power; no loss possible; no increase conceivable, He knows and loves with infinite intensity, and this is not stagnation but measureless vitality.
God is all-powerful too. There are no limits to what He can do, no limits to what He can make. The most powerful person cannot make anything of nothing at all. He and she needs some material to work upon, and in the absence of material his and her power must lie all locked up within him and her and not use-able. That is a solid limitation, and God lacks it. He needs no material-he creates.
"Can God make a weight so heavy that He cannot lift?" asks the unbeliever. He and she feels and has us cornered. If we say yes, then God cannot lift it; if we say no, then God cannot make it. (The reader might do well to pause here and think out how he and she would answer this). Our reply is that God can indeed do all things, but self-contradiction is not a thing. God cannot make a four-sided triangle, because the terms contradict each other and cancel out. A four-sided triangle is meaningless; it is not a thing at all, it is nothing. A weight that an almighty Being cannot lift is as much a contradiction in terms as a four-sided triangle. It is too nothing, And (to give an old text a new emphasis) nothing is impossible to God. Because God is infinite, there is........................
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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 -
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
If this sort of thing is new to you, it may be difficult at first. Keep thinking it over. God is changeless because he is infinite. He has all perfections. He cannot lose any of them, so there is no past into which they can flow away. Nor is there any future from which new perfections can flow to him. He has all perfections, in the present, a present does not change and does not cease. Another word for this is eternity. The universe He created is not like that, things come and go. Change is continuous. Time and universe started together.
We must concentrate upon the concept of eternity, it brings us deep into the meaning of God. You and I, and all of us are in time, which means that we are never at any moment the whole of ourselves. What we were last year, what we shall be next year, all belongs to our total being; but last year has gone and next year has not arrived. There never a moment when we are all there. We possess our being, the philosophers say, successively. Not so God. All that he is, he possesses, in one single act of being. Eternity does not mean everlasting time, time open at both ends, so that however, far you go back into the past there is no beginning, however, far you go forward in the future, there is no end. Eternity is not time at all. It is God's total possession of himself.
God, we have seen, is changeless. This might strike us as involving him in infinite stagnation. For us, with our matter-bound habits, activity seems unthinkable without change, but this, as we see looking closer, is because we are finite. The first great activity of the infinite Spirit is knowing, with us this.........
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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 -
We must concentrate upon the concept of eternity, it brings us deep into the meaning of God. You and I, and all of us are in time, which means that we are never at any moment the whole of ourselves. What we were last year, what we shall be next year, all belongs to our total being; but last year has gone and next year has not arrived. There never a moment when we are all there. We possess our being, the philosophers say, successively. Not so God. All that he is, he possesses, in one single act of being. Eternity does not mean everlasting time, time open at both ends, so that however, far you go back into the past there is no beginning, however, far you go forward in the future, there is no end. Eternity is not time at all. It is God's total possession of himself.
God, we have seen, is changeless. This might strike us as involving him in infinite stagnation. For us, with our matter-bound habits, activity seems unthinkable without change, but this, as we see looking closer, is because we are finite. The first great activity of the infinite Spirit is knowing, with us this.........
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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 -
Monday, July 6, 2009
As a first step forming our idea on Him, we imagine our body away and see our soul existing and functioning bodily. It is part-less, space-less, and immortal; its knows, loves, decides, acts. And all those things are true of God. But our soul is not God's equal, it is only his image. God is infinite, we are not.
God can confer existence upon other beings, precisely because he has it in his own right. It is his nature to exist. God does not have to receive existence, because He is existence.That is the primary truth about God. He is, He exists, with all the existence in its fullness, we shall look deeper into that. Everywhere means where everything is.
The phrase "God" is everywhere means that God is in everything, clearly a spiritual being and it is not a material being as water is in a cup. We must look for a different meaning for the word in. A spiritual being is said to be where it operates, is the things that receive the effects of its power. My soul, for instance, is in every part of my body, not by being spread out so that every bodily part has a little bit of some to itself, but because the souls life-giving energies pour into every part of the body. Everything whatsoever receives the energy of God, bringing it into existence and keeping it there; that is sense in which God is omnipresent, is everywhere, in everything. It is no convenience for God of course. He does not need things. But they need him, desperately.
Now we look at the question "before the universe was created". Just as where is a word of space and God is not in space - so before is a word of time - and God is not time, either. Our material universe is continuously changing , and time belongs to it. God is changeless, so time has no meaning in relation with him. We are in time, God is eternity.
If this sort of thing is new to you.......................
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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 -
God can confer existence upon other beings, precisely because he has it in his own right. It is his nature to exist. God does not have to receive existence, because He is existence.That is the primary truth about God. He is, He exists, with all the existence in its fullness, we shall look deeper into that. Everywhere means where everything is.
The phrase "God" is everywhere means that God is in everything, clearly a spiritual being and it is not a material being as water is in a cup. We must look for a different meaning for the word in. A spiritual being is said to be where it operates, is the things that receive the effects of its power. My soul, for instance, is in every part of my body, not by being spread out so that every bodily part has a little bit of some to itself, but because the souls life-giving energies pour into every part of the body. Everything whatsoever receives the energy of God, bringing it into existence and keeping it there; that is sense in which God is omnipresent, is everywhere, in everything. It is no convenience for God of course. He does not need things. But they need him, desperately.
Now we look at the question "before the universe was created". Just as where is a word of space and God is not in space - so before is a word of time - and God is not time, either. Our material universe is continuously changing , and time belongs to it. God is changeless, so time has no meaning in relation with him. We are in time, God is eternity.
If this sort of thing is new to you.......................
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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 -
Sunday, July 5, 2009
We may asked what it meant by spirit. "A spirit has no shape, has no size, has no colour, has no weight, do not occupy space". "God is spirit". We begin with our own spirit, the one we know best. Spirit is the element in us by which we know and love, by which therefore we decide. Our body knows nothing. It loves nothing (bodily pleasures are not enjoyed by the body, it reacts to them physically, with heightened pulse, for instance, or acid stomach; but it is the knowing mind that enjoys the reaction or dislikes them) the body decides nothing (though our will may decide in favour of things that give us bodily pleasure) Spirit knows and loves. A slightly longer look at ourselves reveals that spirit has power too. We aware that in us, spirit does a number of things; it knows and loves, and it animates a body. But what, at the end of all this, is spirit?
One further truth remains to be stated about spirit. It is the permanent thing, the abiding thing. A steady grace will show us that a being that has no parts, no element in it that is not the whole of it, cannot occupy space. Continue to grace and we see that it cannot be changed into anything else; no natural process can destroy it. Spirit is the being that has a permanent hold upon what it is, so that it can never become anything else. A spirit being, therefore cannot lose its identity. It can experience changes in its relation to other beings; for example, it can gain new knowledge or lose knowledge that it has; it can transfer its love from this object to that; it can develop its power over matter, it own body can cease to respond to its animating power and death follow for the body - but with all these things it remains itself, conscious of itself, permanent. We have known all our lives that 'God is spirit.'
As a first step forming our idea on him, we imagine our body away and see our soul...............
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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 -
One further truth remains to be stated about spirit. It is the permanent thing, the abiding thing. A steady grace will show us that a being that has no parts, no element in it that is not the whole of it, cannot occupy space. Continue to grace and we see that it cannot be changed into anything else; no natural process can destroy it. Spirit is the being that has a permanent hold upon what it is, so that it can never become anything else. A spirit being, therefore cannot lose its identity. It can experience changes in its relation to other beings; for example, it can gain new knowledge or lose knowledge that it has; it can transfer its love from this object to that; it can develop its power over matter, it own body can cease to respond to its animating power and death follow for the body - but with all these things it remains itself, conscious of itself, permanent. We have known all our lives that 'God is spirit.'
As a first step forming our idea on him, we imagine our body away and see our soul...............
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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 -
Saturday, July 4, 2009
From what has been said it is clearly impossible that human happiness consist in pleasures of the body, the chief of which are pleasures of the table and of sex. It has been shown that according to nature's order, pleasure is on account of operation and not conversely. Wherefore if an operation is not the ultimate end, the consequence pleasure can neither be the ultimate end, nor accompany the ultimate end. Now it is manifest that the operations which are followed by the pleasures mentioned above are not the last end, for they are directed to certain manifest ends - eating, for instance, to the preservation of the body, and canal intercourse to the begetting of children; as it is, the aforesaid pleasures are not the end, nor do they accompany the last end.
Therefore happiness does not consist in them which is not good, unless it be moderate or is not good itself but receives its goodness from its moderator. Now the use of the aforesaid pleasures is not good for people unless it be moderate, for otherwise they would frustrate one another. Therefore these pleasures are not in themselves. But the sovereign good is good essentially because that which is good of itself is better that what is good through another. Such-like pleasures are not human's supreme good, which is happiness.
Acts of virtue are praiseworthy through being directed to happiness. If therefore human happiness consisted in the aforesaid pleasures, an act of virtue would be more praiseworthy in acceding to them than in abstaining from them. But this is clearly untrue, for the act of temperance is especially praised in abstinence from pleasures, whence that act takes its name.
Therefore human happiness is not be placed in bodily pleasures. And the last end of everything is God, we must therefore posit as human's last end that by which especially peoples approaches God. Now human is hindered by the aforesaid same pleasures are a very great hindrance since more than anything they plunge people into the midst of sensible things and, consequently, withdraw them from intelligible things.
Therefore human happiness is not to be placed in bodily pleasures. Besides, the soul is better than the body, which neither lives nor possesses these goods without the soul, wherefore the soul's good, such as understanding and the like, is better than the body's good. The body's good is not human's supreme good. Accordingly, if human ultimate happiness consists not in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul, as regards the sensitive faculty, it remains for us to conclude that human ultimate happiness consists in wisdom based on the consideration of divine things.
It is therefore evident by way of induction that people ultimate happiness consists solely in the contemplation of God. Therefore our faith in God's, our hope in God's and loving God's is always not in vain and always fruitful.
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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 -
Therefore happiness does not consist in them which is not good, unless it be moderate or is not good itself but receives its goodness from its moderator. Now the use of the aforesaid pleasures is not good for people unless it be moderate, for otherwise they would frustrate one another. Therefore these pleasures are not in themselves. But the sovereign good is good essentially because that which is good of itself is better that what is good through another. Such-like pleasures are not human's supreme good, which is happiness.
Acts of virtue are praiseworthy through being directed to happiness. If therefore human happiness consisted in the aforesaid pleasures, an act of virtue would be more praiseworthy in acceding to them than in abstaining from them. But this is clearly untrue, for the act of temperance is especially praised in abstinence from pleasures, whence that act takes its name.
Therefore human happiness is not be placed in bodily pleasures. And the last end of everything is God, we must therefore posit as human's last end that by which especially peoples approaches God. Now human is hindered by the aforesaid same pleasures are a very great hindrance since more than anything they plunge people into the midst of sensible things and, consequently, withdraw them from intelligible things.
Therefore human happiness is not to be placed in bodily pleasures. Besides, the soul is better than the body, which neither lives nor possesses these goods without the soul, wherefore the soul's good, such as understanding and the like, is better than the body's good. The body's good is not human's supreme good. Accordingly, if human ultimate happiness consists not in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul, as regards the sensitive faculty, it remains for us to conclude that human ultimate happiness consists in wisdom based on the consideration of divine things.
It is therefore evident by way of induction that people ultimate happiness consists solely in the contemplation of God. Therefore our faith in God's, our hope in God's and loving God's is always not in vain and always fruitful.
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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 -
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
How unfortunate that in our society the word love is used to describe experiences that are better described as escapism into a rosy world of illusion. It is possible to love wrongly and perversely. Idolizing a human being while forgetting that he and she is an imperfect creature is a sort of madness. The most perfect human love is the one partakes of God's love for the beloved.
Authentic love makes us "see" it is not based on wishful thinking or on the unhealthy projection of imaginary virtues onto another person. It is an ardent yet calm perception, granted by God, of the beauty He has put into each of us, and it fills us with awe and gratitude. Authentic love is a pure gift that fills the soul with an intense and peaceful joy.
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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 -
Authentic love makes us "see" it is not based on wishful thinking or on the unhealthy projection of imaginary virtues onto another person. It is an ardent yet calm perception, granted by God, of the beauty He has put into each of us, and it fills us with awe and gratitude. Authentic love is a pure gift that fills the soul with an intense and peaceful joy.
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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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