Friday, August 20, 2010

Spirituality: The Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith

Chapter 2: On revelation

The same holy mother Church holds and teaches that God, the beginning and end of all things, can be known from created things, by the light of natural human reasons: “For ever since the creation of the world, God’s eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made” [Rom. 1:20]; nevertheless, it has pleased his wisdom and goodness to reveal to the human race, in another and supernatural way, himself and the eternal decrees of his will, as the Apostle says: “Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son [Heb. 1:1 f, can.1].

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