{"id":1176,"date":"2020-03-20T11:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T10:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2020-04-21T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:45:34","slug":"life-by-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/predication.net\/?p=1176","title":{"rendered":"Life by nature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Life by nature<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">People make mistakes and apologize for being natural. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Is it really natural? <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">If they lived by nature, Dante writes in the Divine Comedy, there would be no sin in the world. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The Slovak word naturalness is related to the word to be born; <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Greek physics and Latin natura have a similar origin. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">So it is what God created, and it can only be good. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">That is what naturalness meant for Greek Fathers. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">God gave man and divine life, love, faith, all virtues. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">All this is therefore natural to him (so-called complete nature, nature nature). <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Against nature, however, is sin and corrupt tendencies, bad passions. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">In the West, the term naturalness has not retained its original meaning. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Theologians needed to discern what is human and divine in us. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Therefore, they called e.g. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">reason, will, feelings of natural gifts, sanctifying grace on the contrary, gifts of supernatural. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">That is why they speak of supernatural virtues of faith, hope, love. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Man sinned. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">His reason darkened, his will be tilted to evil, his body and senses seized with passion. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">We are so, and therefore our nature, of course, in a very special sense, is spoiled, fallen (nature corrupt, lapse). <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">But they oppose grace. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">It must be constantly overcome. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The following of Christ has a whole chapter \u00ababout various movements of nature and grace\u00bb: Grace invites us to the heights, nature pulls to earth. This triple meaning of the word must be borne in mind when we read spiritual books. It should be noted how the author uses the term. Otherwise, we would come across arguments that are in complete contradiction. Once we read that we have to live and develop according to nature, sometimes it is claimed that we must always deny and mortify it. Once it is written that love of God is natural, sometimes it is proved that it is not natural but supernatural. All these statements are true, but according to the meaning in which the word \u00abnaturalness\u00bb is used.we can be &#8220;natural&#8221; by human judgment. Belief in the Holy Trinity is a \u00absupernatural\u00bb gift of faith, or grace. Thus, the gifts of grace are &#8220;voluntary&#8221;. God gives them when and as He sees fit. No one has a right to them. They &#8220;elevate&#8221; man to the &#8220;state of grace&#8221;, giving him a higher perfection than he would be capable of with his own powers. This scholastic distinction is very useful for expressing a few basic truths of grace. However, we are well aware that all participation in God&#8217;s life cannot be expressed in several terms. Tradition here helps with figurative symbolic expressions, aphorisms, the experience of saints. Let us recall at least the main ones.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life by naturePeople make mistakes and apologize for being natural. Is it really natural? If they lived by nature, Dante writes in the Divine Comedy, there would be no sin in the world. 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