It is not within natural human power to understand God. We received the revealed truth from Jesus Christ who established his Church to care for the faithful through the Holy Spirit, and in the sacraments. We also have conscience and actual grace (even before baptism). The Holy Trinity prayer includes a key understanding:But sacred tradition depend on people and they could be erroneous.
That I already answered. We cannot be simply be sure about the Truth derived by people if they do not constantly receive the truth by divine revelation.
But that’s the whole reason for being a Christian, to be saved and to live with God eternally. What else is there?I was not talking about who could be save and who could not. I was talking about the truth. I completely agree with what you said.
That is not a correct statement. We are either open or close to understand God. We can understand the Truth with or without intervention if we are cognitively open to him otherwise revelation cannot help us.It is not within natural human power to understand God. We received the revealed truth from Jesus Christ who established his Church to care for the faithful through the Holy Spirit, and in the sacraments. We also have conscience and actual grace (even before baptism). The Holy Trinity prayer includes a key understanding:
Father, you sent your Word to bring us truth and your Spirit to make us holy. Through them we come to know the mystery of your life.
What is the point of living by God eternally? What is the purpose? We are at the end of the road are intellectual beings looking for purposes in our lives so we can give **meaning **to our lives.But that’s the whole reason for being a Christian, to be saved and to live with God eternally. What else is there?
I understand that is your belief, but it is different than the Catholic belief that faith is a gift of the Holy Spirit.That is not a correct statement. We are either open or close to understand God. We can understand the Truth with or without intervention if we are cognitively open to him otherwise revelation cannot help us.
That is the purpose for which we were created. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church para. 1What is the point of living by God eternally? What is the purpose? We are at the end of the road are intellectual beings looking for purposes in our lives so we can give **meaning **to our lives.
We were not created for this life on earth. Knowledge is not our ultimate goal. Our whole meaning in life is to love God.God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.
This simply contradict with what you said in regards to knowledge. To know something, God for example, however does not grant any meaning to our lives.That is the purpose for which we were created. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church para. 1
So if knowledge is not our ultimate goal then why we are created with the power to know.We were not created for this life on earth. Knowledge is not our ultimate goal.
That is neither a meaning nor it can provide a purpose. We live our lives and we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. Living with God and being happy and loving God do not simply grant any meaning to our lives. So at the end of the road we should look for something which can grant a meaning to us.Our whole meaning in life is to love God.
How? Infallibility requires Divinity.Infallibility imposes an orthodoxy to consider.
Prophecy ended with John the Baptist. The Spirit of Prophecy, Our Lord, testifies of this when Jesus said, Of those born of women none is greater than John the Baptist. (But whoever becomes like a little child will be greater than he. Where the Spirit of Prophecy leaves off, it is time for the Spirit of truth to manifest himself. This is where Jesus says, I will send you another councilor, even the spirit of truth.According to Catholic belief Church is infallible because of intervention of Holy Spirit. Does’t that mean that members of Church receiving revelation and they are prophet?
Does prophecy mean the revelation of truth by God who is Holy Spirit?Prophecy ended with John the Baptist. The Spirit of Prophecy, Our Lord, testifies of this when Jesus said, Of those born of women none is greater than John the Baptist. (But whoever becomes like a little child will be greater than he. Where the Spirit of Prophecy leaves off, it is time for the Spirit of truth to manifest himself. This is where Jesus says, I will send you another councilor, even the spirit of truth.
All the prophets spoke concerning Jesus of which John was the last in this line. Now is the time for the Holy Spirit.