First, we must prove that God exists:
Man’s proper perfection is a moral perfection. This truth is
no mere optional extrinsic embellishment; you’re a failure if you aren't
morally good. Plain and simple. (Moral goodness would include truth, reverence, love, charity, justice, etc.) This truth has religious significance:
- The greater the good, the greater the yearning that man has for absolute fulfillment.
- For every need, there’s a way or an object to fulfill it
- It belongs to man’s nature to give one’s self to something absolute [Either to an idol (like in Ebeneezer Scrooge’s case, when he gave himself entirely to money; or Hugh Hefner’s, who has given his entire life to sex), or to the One, True God.]
- We have a need for God (since God is the moral perfection that was mentioned above); therefore God exists.
Then we can prove that God is Our Creator:
The cause of a person coming into being has to be at
least at the level of a person since an effect is as great as its cause. Something cannot be created from nothing, right? Therefore, it is only left to a divine being to create something from
nothing. The coming into being of a new human soul requires a first cause. Since God is the only Divine Being in the universe, he can act as a first cause. The two times he acts directly as a first cause is at the
Eucharist, and in the creation of a person.
*Connected to my post on Fear. This seemingly unconnected-to-anything-and-random post will make more sense when Fear is read first.*
Awesome. I get the connection too, which makes me happy. :) <3 Love you!
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