CA Magazine article The Waiting is the Hardest Part

[MattPerk]

Anybody have some feedback on what Fr. Hugh Barbour means by “God did not make us to be morally perfect or sinless…” It is stated at the 4th "What am I waiting for? " In the Sept-Oct 2020 CA Magazine.

I thought God made us to be perfect but we fell through Adam in original sin? When a child is born isn’t it morally perfect and sinless at the time of birth? Confused any insights?

I also emailed CA. Will let you know what they say.

Thanks,

 

[Vico]

Anybody have some feedback on what Fr. Hugh Barbour means by “God did not make us to be morally perfect or sinless…” It is stated at the 4th "What am I waiting for? " In the Sept-Oct 2020 CA Magazine.

I thought God made us to be perfect but we fell through Adam in original sin? When a child is born isn’t it morally perfect and sinless at the time of birth? Confused any insights?

I also emailed CA. Will let you know what they say.

Thanks,

Journey. There is no personal sin at birth, yet there is no sanctifying grace which is needed for salvation. A person affirms theirself through freely choosing charity.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

302 Creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created “in a state of journeying” ( in statu viae ) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. …

310 But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it? With infinite power God could always create something better.174 But with infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world “in a state of journeying” towards its ultimate perfection. In God’s plan this process of becoming involves the appearance of certain beings and the disappearance of others, the existence of the more perfect alongside the less perfect, both constructive and destructive forces of nature. With physical good there exists also physical evil as long as creation has not reached perfection.175

311 Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have sinned. Thus has moral evil , incommensurably more harmful than physical evil, entered the world. God is in no way, directly or indirectly, the cause of moral evil.176 He permits it, however, because he respects the freedom of his creatures and, mysteriously, knows how to derive good from it: …

 

[MattPerk]

This is helpful thanks.