The opening chapter of the book of Wisdom is very humbling (and alittle scary... in a good way, I guess). When it says “For the holy spirit of discipline will flee from the deceitful”.... does it mean THE Holy Spirit as in one of the Persons in the Holy Trinity? Thank you
I would say there and in verse 7 it is referring to a personal Spirit. In 9:17 as well. Whether the secondary human author has a Trinitarian understanding of the differentiation of three separate Divine Persons in one Divine Godhead as you and I is doubtful. However, given that the primary author is in fact the Holy Spirit it seems more than reasonable that we can read it spiritually to be suggesting what is made explicit in the revelation of the New Testament. See also Ps 51:11 and Isaiah 63:10-11. There are lots of places in the Old Testament where we see these inspired suggestions of the Trinity that are then revealed in the New. See Catechism paragraph 292.
Praise the Lord!!! Father, I saw the image of a man ( not sure it is the right face of Jesus) on the wall in the video. But i often puzzled reading the bible ( eg Deuteronomy 4:15), these images are against the teaching of Jesus. Why do we need an image to pray especially in most of the Roman Catholic churches, it is full of statues and images. Apostels never prayed on such objects. Most of the religious leaders do not give a proper explanation from the bible about keeping such images or statues and often pray infront of them and kiss them because they are worried about their congreration and it is belief and forgetting what Jesus has taught. Kindly throw some lights on this and please do make a video of this topic based on the bible versus?
What I really like is this concept of Faith & Reason heard it from multiple sources. It's really down to earth. Something I've never ever really heard from protestant sources. Also... Plato and Aristotle?!?! I love reading Plato. You never hear about philosophy from them either. Idk just in general Catholics seem way more down to earth. Idk .. I be lying severely if I didn't say Protestantism has turned me off to religion my whole life. To the point as identifying as a skeptic. Never really as an atheist. Because my first philosophy paper I wrote when I was 17. I argued for the idea of god through presupposing this unseen dimension of ideas. Love beauty and mathematics......... Imagine my shock when I read Plato 20 years later. I almost threw up. Suffice it to say I could never really call myself an atheist. But yeah thanks for the upload!
Great post! That is amazing that you thought your way into the notion of Platonic forms at 17. That is really cool. One thing you may like reading is the encyclical (universal) letter to the whole Catholic Church, 'Fides et Ratio' (Faith and Reason). It is one of the best things to come out of Rome. Peace of Christ, Fr. Larry
Why thank you Father! (I don't know why I feel so funny saying. Never talked to priest before.) Now that I think about it. When I trace my steps back in time. To back when I was 17. I had a huge crush on this girl. (Go figure 😆) Like I didn't know what was happening to me. I never felt this phenomena before. It made no sense. Anyways I was also into science fiction. There were these books my HS teacher liked to give her kids. By the author Michael Crichton. One of them was Jurassic Park. (Way before the film came out btw) I must've read that book upwards 8 to 12 times. How Crichton wove this narrative around the molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid and it's 4 parts ATGC. Being spliced together with frog DNA to clone dinosaurs. Fascinated me. But there was a catch you see. A mechanism in computer science called "fractal geometry" And the ominous theme of the book whispering to you in the background. "Life always finds a way." Cue the dinosaur mayhem that inevitably follows. Lol! So that got me all inspired. Thought science was amazing. Thought this feeling from the crush I had on this girl was otherworldly. Moving on. I saw this documentary on TV about the Big Bang theory. And how it stated that the cosmic microwave background radiation or CMB (Ironically CMB was the initials of the girl I mentioned earlier. Again.. Go figure) Could be seen in the background static of your TV. Another words the moment of "Creation" is still all around us. So I put 2 and 2 together and decided to enroll in a philosophy class. I didn't really understand a single thing the teacher was talking about. Other than Socrates is pronounced Sock-Ra-tees not So-crates. And I get my first assignment. Is there a God? And that's when I argued that there must be some kind of hidden dimension that exists around us stemming from the CMB at the beginning of the Universe that contains are notions of love, mathematics and truth. Therefore that's where the idea of God comes from. And I thought I did an awesome job. I answered from the heart. Put down to paper what I really felt. What I thought was the truth. Turned it in to my philosophy teacher. Even though I didn't understand a thing he was talking about. Go to retrieve my paper. I naively ask. "So what did you think my paper?" My philosophy teacher immediately just blushes RED. Doesn't answer my question. Looks away. Hands me back my paper with an A on it. That always mystified me. Why did he do that? Give me an A? Why did he blush and look embarrassed or something else? So for the next 20 something years I took up an interest in philosophy searching for an answer to that question. All the classes I took. Everything I read. No matter how high or how low I searched. For over 20 years. NEVER FOUND AN ANSWER. It was all skepticism this, logic that, science this, empiricism this, postmodern condition that, Dialectical this, Critical Theory that. Just everything you could possibly encounter in modern day philosophy. Then my mother died. I cried so hard. I grieved so much. I was at my wits end with philosophy science and skepticism. So I took my last leap of faith. Looking for an explanation to my philosophical idea I had believed in so much 20 something years before. And decided to finally find out what all the fuss was about in philosophy and for the first time and read Plato. And that's why I said I almost threw up. The answer is right there staring me in my face. Plato's Theory of the Forms. I wasn't crazy. In fact I was onto something the whole time. It was just that Plato wrote it down first apparently. Go Figure
@@evo1ov3 Love your writing! Great stories. I can relate to so much you said. Being obsessed with a girl in high school. A secular public school education and secular friends. Unrest. Finding good philosophy. Eventually a found the Bible a few years later. I love both so much. I'm scrambling to get higher up the mountain to see more of what is going on. I lost my Mom 7 years ago and it has rocked my world. A lot of good has come from it though. We are both seekers. I love it! Thanks for sharing! Peace of Christ, Fr. Larry
Fides et Ratio, interesting. So that's where the "Faith and Reason are like the two wings on which the human spirit rises to contemplation..." Comes from. I did not know that. But I have heard it before. Thank you.
Wow that's good stuff. Didn't know the Pope was such a good writer. There's good writing, really good writing and there's that. Looked up all the Latin words. That was cool. Also noticed he snuck in the study of semiotics. By talking about signifier and signified. Most people wouldn't know that. That's pretty niche. Made it to chapter 2. Got to give my brain a rest. Otherwise it's just going to go in one end and out the other. That's wild. Thank you for pointing that out for me. I grew up with the protestant types talking trash about Catholics. What do you know. They're super intelligent. Really intelligent. But yeah how did I wind up here? You're probably wondering what's up with this guy. Why is this atheist all of a sudden interested in Catholicism? Well honestly.... Before I came here I watched this 3 hour long podcast from "Pints with Aquinas" about the Shroud of Turin......... YOU GUYS HAVE HAD THE BURIAL GARMENTS OF JESUS THIS WHOLE TIME!??!???!!??! WHAT?!?!!?! You know it's like one of my philosophy of science teachers would say. Quoting Carl Sagan "Extraordinary Claims demand Extraordinary Evidence." All of the time. And here you guys are like.. Yeah we've had this extraordinary evidence this whole time. Since day 1 in fact. Here it's over here. Btw we're currently using scientific arguments to explain it. I'm just like what?!?! I've been taught skepticism by philosophy of science teachers with PhDs who are capital A atheists. And I don't see any flaws in that 3 hour presentation on the Shroud of Turin. I'm on my 3rd viewing of it. And even the Priest is like I don't even know how to explain this. How do you even fake something like this? Then I go over to a skeptic podcast. And they say the same thing the priest did as well. It's like the moon landing hoax. It's easier to believe that we just simply landed on the moon. Than to believe all the nonsense that says we didn't. That's how mind blowing insane this Shroud of Turin stuff is. It's easier to just believe Jesus is real and resurrected from the dead. Than to believe that it's a hoax. And the thing is. You guys apply real science to it. You're not like oh it's a miracle you just gotta have faith bla blah "aliens." Like an unserious protestant denomination would. You guys got this thing mapped out. 3d computer graphics. Naturalistic physics based hypothesises and everything. And the Catholic church has been holding onto this thing since the day Jesus died? Yeah that would probably make me serious about the Christian faith too. No wonder you guys use such impeccable language and manners. You guys are holding onto physical evidence of the resurrection and not being vulgar about it. Idk sorry. I just had to get that off my chest.
So I'm down this rabbit hole of magic an not wanting to disobey God. So I'm here because of a rumor about Solomons key an he did magic. So I'm curious if he did magic an trying make sure more mythology I don't know didn't happen. As other religions have skeud it.
Magic is alluring and attractive because we are drawn to mystery. It is as old as the hills, but ultimately it opens us to a realm that our Creator has forbidden to us. We attempt to manipulate and we end up opening ourselves up to being manipulated. That is the danger that our Creator wants us to avoid. The Creator God is all powerful and does not need magic. His power is greater than mere magic. He just speaks to create. It is not spells or incantations, but the sheer power of his Word. His power and being is the true Mystery we should delve into. The Creator is more interesting and attractive than anything which we can conceive. If you desire adventure and mystery open yourself up completely to your Creator and invite him to live inside you. That is what you were made by Him for. You are of greater value, worth, dignity and nobility than you can possibly imagine as a creature made in the image and likeness of the Creator. He has revealed to us that He is perfect Love. Let him love you and fill you completely. Love him in return and seek to live according to His ways and you will find true joy, peace and happiness. His will is for you to live forever with Him in eternal blessedness. I advise you to soak in my guided meditation videos on my RU-vid channel. I recommend you start with 'The Presence of God': ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uq-OdoFzpOs.html
It also says that God didn't create death that evil people brought death upon themselves Does it mean that everyone good or bad that died brought death upon themselves I don't get it
Yes, in a certain sense. There is a unity to the human family for all time, and we are all subject to the same fallen condition, "In sin my mother conceived me..." (Ps 51:5), "If you then who are evil (literally 'pain-ridden')" (Mt 7:11). With this understanding of our universal fallen condition, I don't know what you mean by 'everyone good or bad'. We all have a wounded nature that is deprived of the likeness or glory of God while retaining the image of God. It is through this same principal of unity whereby the human family shares in the original sin of the first Adam and suffers its effects that we also universally share in the redemption of the new Adam, "For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many" (Rom 5:15). It is up to us now whether we accept this free gift and enter the wedding feast of the Lamb, "Come to the Marriage Feast! But they made light of it and went off, one to his farm, another to his business" (Mt 22:4-5).
