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1 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | flinkywood | 216565 | ||
St John, I found this in answer to your piece on pride. "Cutting off What Keeps Us from God" I was led back to the opening pages of the Book of Genesis, to the event known as "original sin." Saint Augustine, with extraordinary perceptiveness, described the nature of this sin as follows:.amor sui usque ad contemptum Dei-.self-love to the point of contempt for God. It was amor sui (self love) which drove our first parents toward that initial rebellion and then gave rise to the spread of sin throughout human history. The Book of Genesis speaks of this: "You will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gn 3:5), in other words, you yourselves will decide what is good and what is evil. The only way to overcome this dimension of original sin is through a corresponding amor Dei usque ad contemptum sui- love for God to the point of contempt of self. This brings us face to face with the mystery of man's redemption, and here the Holy Spirit is our guide. It is he who allows us to penetrate deeply into the mysterium Crucis and at the same time to plumb the depths of the evil perpetrated by man and suffered by man from the very beginning of his history. That is what the expression "convince the world about sin" means, and the purpose of this "convincing" is not to condemn the world. If the Church, through the power of the Holy Spirit, can call evil by its name, it does so only in order to demonstrate that evil can be overcome if we open ourselves to amor Dei usque ad contemptum sui. This is the fruit of Divine Mercy. In Jesus Christ, God bends down over man to hold out a hand to him, to raise him up, and to help him continue his journey with renewed strength. Man cannot get back onto his feet unaided: he needs the help of the Holy Spirit. Pope John Paul II |
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2 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | DocTrinsograce | 216570 | ||
Dear flinkywood, Might I suggest that we cite scholarship of those who share the conviction -- as all forum participants do -- of the doctrine of Sola Scriptura? Anti-Sola Scriptura folks sometimes get things right. As a friend of mine used to say, "Even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then." But part of persuading folks is to know your audience. You won't gain much mileage with most of us quoting the head of an organization who anathematized the gospel. In Him, Doc |
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3 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | stjohn | 216573 | ||
Amen, and thanks! | ||||||