Catechism Question

[ZDHayden]

I have recently come across a passage in the Catechism that I do not know how to interpret. On the surface it seems blatantly unbiblical (Isaiah 43:10). Could you please help me understand this?

460 The Word became flesh to make us “partakers of the divine nature”: “For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God.” “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.” “The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.”

Thank you.

 

[Theophorus]

Its seems to have strong biblical references as far as I can see. How about the reference given in the catechism for 2 Peter 1:4 for starters "become partakers of the divine nature.” And Romans 8:17 where we are said to be co-heirs with Christ.
The fathers often summed up Christ’s actions as he shared in our humanity that we might share in his divinity. Not saying that we are in fact Almighty God but sharers in the divine nature.
How that makes sense!!

 

[Milesius]

"You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself am. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none. "

How does it contradict that?

 

[ZDHayden]

Its seems to have strong biblical references as far as I can see. How about the reference given in the catechism for 2 Peter 1:4 for starters "become partakers of the divine nature.” And Romans 8:17 where we are said to be co-heirs with Christ.
The fathers often summed up Christ’s actions as he shared in our humanity that we might share in his divinity. Not saying that we are in fact Almighty God but sharers in the divine nature.
How that makes sense!!

Thank you very much, I am still young in my faith, and the passage from the Catechism did not make sense initially. I still have much to learn.

 

[Theophorus]

Thank you very much, I am still young in my faith, and the passage from the Catechism did not make sense initially. I still have much to learn.

May God bless you on your journey of faith, Its a journey many of us share with you.

 

[grannymh]

I have recently come across a passage in the Catechism that I do not know how to interpret. On the surface it seems blatantly unbiblical (Isaiah 43:10). Could you please help me understand this?

Thank you.

The roots for paragraph 460 are in Genesis 1: 26-28.

In other words, it is helpful to first understand our human nature as created by God and then to understand Adam and Original Sin.

Basic Catholic teaching regarding the nature and purpose of human beings
is found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition,
ISBN: 1-57455-109-4
Paragraphs 355-421.
The good news of Jesus Christ follows in Paragraph 422, etc.

Blessings,
granny

The human person is worthy of profound respect from the moment of conception.

 

[Izdaari]

FWIW, that particular article (460) of the Catechism works for me as a non-Catholic Christian too. Everything in it is taken from Scripture, from several different places which others have already cited.