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CruceSignati
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My first reaction is no, and that is what I voted for as well.
Here is an example to explain a little more. Say you know who God is, but you ignore Him and all that is truth within Him. Do you think that all will go blissfully for you?
Nonetheless, I am interested in seeing what everyone else has to say.
Here is an example to explain a little more. Say you know who God is, but you ignore Him and all that is truth within Him. Do you think that all will go blissfully for you?
Nonetheless, I am interested in seeing what everyone else has to say.
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Giggly_Giraffe
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I will say, yes, ignorance is bliss.
Adam & Eve were in bliss in the garden of Eden. When the sought after knowledge. Of good and evil, they gained knowledge and with that knowledge comes responses. These responses add up and often become burdomsom.
Adam & Eve were in bliss in the garden of Eden. When the sought after knowledge. Of good and evil, they gained knowledge and with that knowledge comes responses. These responses add up and often become burdomsom.
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Aloysium
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I would say that ignorance is the opposite of bliss. Adam and Eve sinning, broke their relationship with God: the Truth, the source of all beauty and goodness.
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crochet_lady
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I voted no because ignorance can be dangerous. Several people mentioned Adam and Eve â theirâs wasnât âignoranceâ it was innocence. Thereâs a difference.
Thereâs the picture of the ostrich with itâs head buried in the sand. Ignorant of what was going on around him. It would have no way to protect itself from danger or learn where his food was.
Education
Thereâs the picture of the ostrich with itâs head buried in the sand. Ignorant of what was going on around him. It would have no way to protect itself from danger or learn where his food was.
Education
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CrossofChrist
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I said no, but I can understand if you said yes.
Why I said no:
God wants all of us to come to knowledge of him. We canât come to knowledge of God if we are ignorant of him. There is a reason the Magisterium exists and was instituted by Christ, and that is to illuminate and make a path for us so that we know that certain things are true. Godâs revelation in Christ frees us from our ignorance and darkness and illuminates our world and our life. Christ takes away our ignorance of who we are as human beings, of who God is, and of what it means to âbeâ.
Pope Francis says in Lumen Fidei, after retelling how our modern world has come to see faith in Jesus as the ultimate kind of ignorance coming from the darkness, that âIn Godâs gift of faith, a supernatural infused virtue, we realize that a great love has been offered us, a good word has been spoken to us, and that when we welcome that word, Jesus Christ the Word made flesh, the Holy Spirit transforms us, lights up our way to the future and enables us joyfully to advance along that way on wings of hope.â
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The more we come to know God, the more we see we really donât understand how great a mystery he is. Itâs ultimately incredible that the Holy Trinity created us, and that the Son decided to become man for our sake and ultimately die for us. Isnât this the ultimate sign of contradiction, supreme rationality assuming the form of something completely irrational, that is, the form of a crucified man? Doesnât St. Bonaventure in his Itinerarium Mentis in Deum say that if we are to contemplate God at all, we should âask for obscurity, not clarityâ? Isnât it ultimately in love, something that seems irrational and meaningless on the surface, something that sometimes expresses itself in the most foolish ways and can seem most ignorant, that everything comes to light? And finally, isnât this irrational thing called love, the sign in the Cross of Christ that confuses us all, the most rational thing there is? Our ability to reason wouldnât be here if there wasnât love at the source of everything, if Godâs reason wasnât creative and didnât want us to be here. Even from a purely anthropological standpoint, isnât love what enables us to reason? If there werenât others before us who loved each other and gave us the gift of life, we wouldnât even be here and have our rational capacity to think.
So in the end, I find it hard to say ignorance is bliss, when even in what seems the most irrational the foundation is rationality and love.
Why I said no:
God wants all of us to come to knowledge of him. We canât come to knowledge of God if we are ignorant of him. There is a reason the Magisterium exists and was instituted by Christ, and that is to illuminate and make a path for us so that we know that certain things are true. Godâs revelation in Christ frees us from our ignorance and darkness and illuminates our world and our life. Christ takes away our ignorance of who we are as human beings, of who God is, and of what it means to âbeâ.
Pope Francis says in Lumen Fidei, after retelling how our modern world has come to see faith in Jesus as the ultimate kind of ignorance coming from the darkness, that âIn Godâs gift of faith, a supernatural infused virtue, we realize that a great love has been offered us, a good word has been spoken to us, and that when we welcome that word, Jesus Christ the Word made flesh, the Holy Spirit transforms us, lights up our way to the future and enables us joyfully to advance along that way on wings of hope.â
OTOHâŚ
The more we come to know God, the more we see we really donât understand how great a mystery he is. Itâs ultimately incredible that the Holy Trinity created us, and that the Son decided to become man for our sake and ultimately die for us. Isnât this the ultimate sign of contradiction, supreme rationality assuming the form of something completely irrational, that is, the form of a crucified man? Doesnât St. Bonaventure in his Itinerarium Mentis in Deum say that if we are to contemplate God at all, we should âask for obscurity, not clarityâ? Isnât it ultimately in love, something that seems irrational and meaningless on the surface, something that sometimes expresses itself in the most foolish ways and can seem most ignorant, that everything comes to light? And finally, isnât this irrational thing called love, the sign in the Cross of Christ that confuses us all, the most rational thing there is? Our ability to reason wouldnât be here if there wasnât love at the source of everything, if Godâs reason wasnât creative and didnât want us to be here. Even from a purely anthropological standpoint, isnât love what enables us to reason? If there werenât others before us who loved each other and gave us the gift of life, we wouldnât even be here and have our rational capacity to think.
So in the end, I find it hard to say ignorance is bliss, when even in what seems the most irrational the foundation is rationality and love.
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