Monday, April 2, 2012

I have no doubt whatsoever that God.



I have no doubt whatsoever that God. That's right it's not a typo. 'That God what?' you might ask, but I say the verb is already in there, within God Himself.

Now, what I really mean to say might be translated as I have no doubt whatsoever that God IS or I have no doubt whatsoever that God EXISTS, in modern philosophically deprived English. But these sentences are redundant, like saying existence exists or light shines. Of course, existence exist and light shines, they can't help but be what they are.

The same applies to YHWH - "I Am That I Am". God doesn't happen to exist making all of us theists unfortunately correct (OMG the reality of sin anyone?), God is the source of existence - the reason that reality IS is God. As St. John the Apostle astutely points out in the first chapter of his gospel "In the beginning was [Logos], and [Logos] was with God, and [Logos] was God." What St. John is doing in this one line of Holy Spirit inspired brilliance is linking the past 500 years (for John) of state-of-the-art Greek philosophy which identified the source of existence with Logos - Reason to a unique individual in human history - Jesus Christ, God incarnate.

The Greeks stoics realized that Reason, or comprehensibility had to come from somewhere, and if we already know that existence is only possible if there is a first cause  - something which exists because its nature is to exist, then the source of comprehensibility, Reason (with a capital 'R') is the first cause. Hence God = Logos. As I said before, I have no doubt whatsoever that God.

Now, more on the practical side: as my wise friend Thilan pointed out, to build a relationship with someone, we must communicate with them. The more you get to know them the deeper the relationship will be. If you want to know God, you must pray earnestly and often, and the best way to do that is by participating in the Liturgical Life of the Church (for example the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.)

-lumengentium


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