2002. God’s free initiative demands man’s free response, for God has created man in his image by conferring on him, along with freedom, the power to know him and love him. the soul only enters freely into the communion of love. God immediately touches and directly moves the heart of man. He has placed in man a longing for truth and goodness that only he can satisfy. the promises of “eternal life” respond, beyond all hope, to this desire:
If at the end of your very good works . . ., you rested on the seventh day, it was to foretell by the voice of your book that at the end of our works, which are indeed “very good” since you have given them to us, we shall also rest in you on the sabbath of eternal life.52
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25. How does man respond to God who reveals himself?
53. Why was the world created?
252. What names are given to the first sacrament of initiation?
495. What are the goods of conjugal love to which sexuality is ordered?
241. What is the center of the liturgical season?
54. How did God create the universe?
3. How is it possible to know God with only the light of human reason?
Acesse nossos estudos biblicos:
What do the passages in Daniel 7 and 11 teach us about the rise of the antichrist?
What does Jesus’ promise to send the Holy Spirit as a comforter mean, according to John 14:26?
What are the characteristics a Christian leader should have according to 1 Timothy 3:1-7?
What is the church’s role in promoting reconciliation according to Philemon 1:6?
What is the example of faith that the poor widow gives us in Luke 21:1-4?
How to deal with anger and anger, according to Proverbs 15:1-2?
