Catechism of the Catholic Church

Catechism of the Catholic Church

1) The Creed - What the Church believes
2) The Sacraments - What the Church celebrates
3) The Commandments - What the Church lives
4) The Lords Prayer - What the Church prays


27 The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God< and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching:
The dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. This invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being. For if man exists, it is because God has created him through love, and through love continues to hold him in existence. He cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and entrusts himself to his creator. Page 17

31 Created in God's image and called to know and love him, the person who seeks God discovers certain ways of coming to know him. These are also called proofs for the existence of God, not in the sense of proofs in the natural sciences, but rather in the sense of "converging and convincing arguments" which allow us to attain certainty about the truth. DK's note: These words are wiser than the author gives himself credit for because it IS in the natural sciences that everything also needs to come into agreement and proofs that he exists. Actually it is the only way to internalize it without faith.

32 [i like this one] --> The world: starting from movement, becoming, contingency, and the world's order and beauty, one can come to a knowledge of God as the origin and the end of the universe.

As St. Paul says of the Gentiles: (Rom 1:19 - 20) For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.

And St. Augustine issues this challenge: Question the beauty of the earth, question the beauty of the sea, question the beauty of the air distending and diffusing itself, question the beauty of the sky... question all these realties. All respond: "See, we are beautiful". Their beauty is a profession. These beauties are subject to change. Who made them if not the Beautiful One who is not subject to change?

33 [my life summed up in a nutshell] The Human person: with his openness to truth and beauty, his sense of moral goodness, his freedom and the voice of his conscience, with his longings for the infinite and for happiness, man questions himself about God's existence. In all this he discerns sings of his spiritual soul. The soul, the "seed of eternity we bear in ourselves, irreducible to the merely material," can have its origin only in God.

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36 reason
37 Reason and original sin

What was the original Apostles Creed?

41 for from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator. Wis 13:5
42 adaptation
43 The exercise of what are things that decay. what is everything that does not decay. take this passage in the catechism literally not figuratively.

45 beautiful
51 not necessarily. Read Elaine Pagals' Beyond Belief and the end result of the Thomas followers vs. the John followers.
52 Perhaps true but through enlightened being not necessarily bc he was God in the flesh. God in the flesh is a contradiction in terms. Jesus aged. He never shouldve aged if he was truly divine. OR was he only divine when he conquered sin but just a man before that???
53 see 51
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56 to 58 - Einstein is not incorporated into this teaching where it would be very appropriate.
59 - covenant to Abraham is actually fact. probably one of the most interesting topics of discussion.
62 - revelation to Moses of the Law - not necessarily. He couldve just done it out of frustration
64 - the female figures of the bible. great reference
65 - depending on if u believe the disciples got it right. Difficult to accept because they got it wrong the entire time he was alive.
66 - contradiction to Madjugorie
67 - ditto to 66
74 see 51
78 disagree on Tradition
80 disagree
82 disagree
83 agree with the first part of this.
86 gives possible credibility if at all to 78 to 82
90 I doubt that is scriptural. This sounds like man came up with their own hierarchical structure.
91 this may have been symbolic; the anointing could possibly be a continues state of the present, which God can only exist in. Who is to say who is blessed by the Holy Spirit? how do they confirm who is or not?
93 completely agree with this statement.
94 The sacred Scripture grows with the one who reads them.
97 This stifles progress. Similar to moral law and scientific discoveries.
100 This is such a ridiculous notion. This should be up to each and every individual to monitor the merits of truth and if they are right according to their own independent logic and observation.
106 Is it not a little unfair that he chose to reveal himself to some and not others. Predestination or free will question.
109 / 110 Totally believe this, but its relative and adapts. Religion needs to be inclusive and explanatory of all things in the entire universe instead of exclusive and anything that it can not explain is classified as being satanic. But don't necessarily think we didn't make a mistake along the way in interpreting which books were actually truth or not. Like John vs Thomas debate or the epistles by Paul being accepted as truth verbatim.
112 Dogmatic Christians totally lose sight of this. This is great! Unity of the entire message.
116 / 117 - literal, spiritual, allegorical, moral, anagogical
120 - great reference to where Ruth, Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Baruch
123 - Latter part of this statement is too close minded and potentially offensive to Judaism. Religion should not be Exclusive it should inclusive of everything.
133 - Absolutely agree with the statement that ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ.
135 - takes this too literally. In fact this is likely a false statement just using the arguments of pure logic.

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between 184 and 185 is the Apostles and Nicene Creed. great reference as the source and direct comparison of the text vs. text.

The sacred female. The cycle of the moon. We all start in water. union of man and female is only way new life is created. Similarly new life is only created when there is a union of God and his Church. The church being the bride of Christ. The 10 bridge grooms and 10 ladies in waiting 5 with oil and 5 without the oil. Oil again being in liquid form. Water also resembles the holy spirit. For some reason Caulo thinks that water represents the female on earth. The blessed Virgin Mary and God give the immaculate conception. Perhaps there is truth to this. Evidence of Mary's miracle not dying. She was supposed to live.

concept of celibacy gives no medium of release for priests, so naturally there is overstepping of boundaries and abuse of power.
the killing of Galileo
the suffrage of women
the period before the Renaissance movement