Acceptance

[PelagiathePenit]

When did you come to accept the world, people and Catholic doctrine for what it is? I have many why’s in most of my post. I am beginning to accept there are things including myself I will probably never understand. I am tired of fighting it. I have this Anne Frank quote about how feelings demand to be felt no matter how ungrateful they are. For example in an ideal world when someone corrects me I would not get defensive I would accept correction cheerfully. Insults would roll off my back. I would never be upset if someone was prettier than me. This is something I may never understand. Sin is preventable and will be punished for them yet by nature we are inclined to sin. I also do not understand things only happen because the Lord permits. The question of freewill comes into play. I think I believe in destiny more than freewill

 

[Blessedwithfive]

Have you hear of Providence yet? It’s the unseen hand of God guiding us through life. kinda like happenstance but with the will of God. I first learned about it with the Joseph and his brothers story in the Old Testament. I have since used it to help explain things in my life that I really can not explain any other way.

 

[PelagiathePenit]

Have you hear of Providence yet? It’s the unseen hand of God guiding us through life. kinda like happenstance but with the will of God. I first learned about it with the Joseph and his brothers story in the Old Testament. I have since used it to help explain things in my life that I really can not explain any other way.

sounds like fate/destiny. You cannot escape God’s will for you.

 

[thistle]

sounds like fate/destiny. You cannot escape God’s will for you.

God gave us free will. Its our choice to accept him or reject him. We are not predestined to do that.

 

[o_mlly]

When did you come to accept the world, people and Catholic doctrine for what it is? …

My conscience, though imperfect, is my best guide to knowing God’s will. The community, past and present, helps me to inform my conscience. When conscience, Scripture, Tradition and Magisterium cohere, I am at peace; when not, I remain anxious about the will of God. With some uncertainty, but trusting in God’s grace, I pursue my salvation by an ongoing effort to conform my conscience to the will of God

But I have never been without an understanding of my salvation. My parents and other teachers transmitted and entrusted to me the framework of our two thousand-year old Catholic Christian heritage. The “entrust” component implies, I think, a covenant I have with my ancestry. The covenant requires me, in the course of my lifetime, to internalize the teaching about salvation, make it my own, but altering it only if I must.

If I alter the teaching that I pass on to my posterity, I believe the covenant requires that the truth of my alterations be to me beyond a shadow of doubt. I may, and do, think about salvation with openness to new insights, but I believe the salvation I profess cannot be both “this” and “that” at the same time. The multiple theologies underpinning a soteriology are interdependent and, to remain systematic, must cohere. For instance, the Catechism of the Catholic Church points out, “. . . we cannot tamper with the revelation of original sin without undermining the mystery of Christ.” To be respected, a speculative theology of salvation, indeed, must address simultaneously and coherently our sizeable deposit of faith.