{"id":3830,"date":"2021-08-27T13:20:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T11:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2021-08-27T13:20:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T11:20:02","slug":"the-importance-of-faith-in-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/predication.net\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"The importance of faith in God."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
How is it possible that many people do not understand the seriousness of faith in God? How is it possible that they reject him? And what will they achieve? Who will answer these questions? At the same time, there are growing problems in the world that we cannot solve without God. The atheist Machovec wrote. The biblical one stands before us: Mene, tekel, fare. People don’t want to have children. It is a lowering of their standard of living. In this respect, the situation was better if one believed in God and did not see only oneself as something last and final. Pope Paul VI said in an interview with a member of the French Academy, J. Guitton. If we do not involve man in God, it is not possible for people to love one another. Do you know what happens without the Absolute, which shows that everyone loves, that love is universal? People create what Bergson calls closed companies. These fast companies oppose each other. As I said in New York, if people do not love God, they will not love one another at the United Nations. War and violence have a deep origin in the lack of such love, which includes all people universally. What about man’s ways to God? Not me? Or are they unobtrusive? At the First Vatican Council in 1870, a voice was heard all over the world. God can be known with certainty by the natural light of reason from what is created. This statement is the result of centuries of experience of the human mind and human life. This statement does not mean a reduction of reason to faith, but a positive one. There is no contradiction between reason and faith, but mutual dependence. It is the intellectual basis of the knowledge of God, witnessed and revealed in the Bible. Based on the inside of God by natural reason, the Christian faith turns out to be something rational, which is harmonizing with reason. In this way, every person, not just a Christian, can know God as the origin and goal of all things. The First Vatican Council does not claim that everyone knows God truly. He claims that this knowledge is possible for every person. Nor does it claim that God’s existence can be proved. He claims that this existence can be known from created things. In the end, he does not claim that natural knowledge takes place without mercy in the world. God is always present among us. He is present by His activity and is present in our constant questions. The path to faith in God is opened by showing how much God belongs to man. And he who denies God ultimately denies man. The deeper one discovers oneself; the closer one gets to God. Modern man has tried almost everything. He doubted God, even renounced him. However, he found himself alone, meaningless in a meaningless universe. He became entangled in many dead ends.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"