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Jan 23, 2021 · We also begin to experience the spiritual fruitfulness of God’s word, which has an intrinsic power to accomplish its purpose in our lives and in the Church. God’s word is creative: “God said ...
Feb 23, 2021 · God is timeless, God does not change. Eternal means as the early medieval philosopher, Boethius put it, he said that God’s eternity means that he has the perfect, complete and simultaneous possession of temporal life. So all of God’s temporal life, God perfectly, completely and simultaneously possesses it. God just is.
108 Still, the Christian faith is not a "religion of the book". Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, "not a written and mute word, but incarnate and living". 73 If the Scriptures are not to remain a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, "open (our) minds to understand the ...
Mar 28, 2011 · Further, Hilaire Belloc noted that the main principle of the Reformation was a "reaction against a united spiritual authority" (The Great Heresies, 97).While the Reformation was ignited by a complex array of disagreements, clergy abuses, frustration over certain practices in the Church at that time, and other issues, it was nevertheless the tenet of "Scripture alone" which provided the ...
Hence, theology, philosophy, and exegesis have each a word to say on this subject. Positive theology furnishes a starting-point in its traditional formulae: viz., God is the author of Scripture, the inspired writer is the organ of the Holy Ghost, Scripture is the Word of God. Speculative theology takes these formulae, analyses their contents ...
Sep 1, 1997 · Catholics are often accused of arguing in a “vicious circle,” proving the Bible by the Church, and the Church by the Bible. We must be careful to avoid this by explaining that we put the Church before the Bible because the Church existed first and wrote and compiled the Bible. The authority of the Bible depends on that of the Church.
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269 The Holy Scriptures repeatedly confess the universal power of God. He is called the "Mighty One of Jacob", the "LORD of hosts", the "strong and mighty" one. If God is almighty "in heaven and ...
