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Jun 19, 2023 · Jesus is the Master of the metaphor. The Kingdom of God parables help us to identify our elusive destiny. The scattering of seeds, the growth, or the choking off by weeds provides vivid images to ...
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Because God is so different, he uses accommodated language to help us understand what he is like. This language involves metaphor, because the human language and mind are not able to capture what God is. The nature of a metaphor is that it speaks of one thing as if it is another and, in so doing, expresses a truth. For example, if I said, “General ...
The First Vatican Council proclaimed: “The holy, Catholic, apostolic and Roman Church believes and acknowledges that there is one true and living God, creator and lord of heaven and earth, omnipotent, eternal, immeasurable, incomprehensible, infinite in will, understanding, and every perfection. “Since he is one, singular, completely simple and imm...
A key to recognizing metaphor is the idea of divine suffering. Because of God’s infinite perfection, he is incapable of suffering. Lacking a physical body, he cannot have physical pain. Possessing perfect beatitude, he has no mental pain. This is the Church’s historic and present teaching. John Paul II makes it clear that suffering is something “wh...
A particular form of suffering that is ascribed in Scripture to God is grief. For example, we read that God’s people “rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit” (Is. 63:10a; cf. Eph. 4:30). This is also a metaphor. John Paul II remarks, “In his [Isaiah’s] anthropomorphic description, the attribution to God’s spirit of the sadness caused by the abandonme...
Sadness is related to anger. One who is grieved can become angry with the person who grieved him, and Scripture does indeed speak of God being angry on account of our sins (e.g., Num. 22:22, Deut. 4:25, 2 Sam. 6:7). When a man is angry, his intense disapproval of something that someone has done triggers a particular set of physiological sensations ...
In modern speech, repentance refers to a sorrow over and conversion from one’s sins. This kind of repentance is never ascribed to God, whose absolute holiness is unquestioned in Scripture. The term repentance historically has been used in other senses, referring either to a change of course or a change of opinion, and in these senses Scripture does...
It is a more difficult to understand when Scripture speaks of God willing evil to someone (e.g., Jer 18:7-11). This must be squared with God’s complete goodness. There would seem to be two ways of doing so. The first solution is that God never wills moral evil to anyone. He only allows them to become morally evil. He may positively will physical ev...
Aug 5, 2019 · In both, Jesus simply says ‘faith as a mustard seed.’ No doubt, the smallness of these seeds is at the fore, but Jesus has in mind much more than size. If, after all, that was only point, He could have used the metaphor of a grain of sand or dust, but He didn’t. There are two differences with a mustard seed. First, it is a life-giving force.
Oct 24, 2012 · Metaphors can help us deepen our faith. For many Catholics, the definition of “faith” is hard to grasp. It is not uncommon, for example, for those experiencing a sense of harsh abandonment and suffering to conclude, falsely, that they are undergoing a “crisis of faith.”. A metaphor for faith is usually helpful in sorting out such ...
May 14, 2017 · Metaphors of the Church. The Church is depicted as barque, a sheepfold, a cultivated vineyard, the building of God, and the bride of Christ. Oftentimes metaphors like these make it easier to understand a concept. Christ did it frequently with ideas he needed to explain in a way his listeners could understand. Interestingly, the Church is one of ...
Metaphors of the Church. The Church is depicted as barque, a sheepfold, a cultivated vineyard, the building of God, and the bride of Christ. Oftentimes metaphors make it easier to understand a concept. Christ did it frequently with ideas he needed to explain in a way his listeners could understand. Interestingly, the Church is one of these ...
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Answer: It is both real and symbolic. It is real in that it describes events that truly took place but symbolic in that it does not recount an exact scientific and historical rendering of events. The account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of ...
