Q9 What does God show us about himself when he sends his Son to us?
God shows us in Jesus Christ the full depth of his merciful love. Through Jesus Christ the invisible God becomes visible. He becomes a man like us. This shows us how far God’s love goes: He bears our whole burden. He walks every path with us. He is there inContinue Reading
Q5 Why do people deny that God exists, if they can know him by reason?
To know the invisible God is a great challenge for the human mind. Many are scared off by it. Another reason why some do not want to know God is because they would then have to change their life. Anyone who says that the question about God is meaningless becauseContinue Reading
REVELATION
Revelation means that God opens himself, shows himself, and speaks to the world voluntarily.Continue Reading
Q2 Why did God create us?
When a man loves, his heart overflows. He would like to share his joy with others. He gets this from his Creator. Although God is a mystery, we can still think about him in a human way and say: Out of the “surplus” of his love he created us. HeContinue Reading
Q7 Why did God have to show himself in order for us to be able to know what he is like?
Man can know by reason that God exists, but not what God is really like. Yet because God would very much like to be known, he has revealed himself. God did not have to reveal himself to us. But he did it — out of love. Just as in humanContinue Reading
Q6 Can we grasp God at all in concepts? Is it possible to speak about him meaningfully?
Although we men are limited and the infinite greatness of God never fits into finite human concepts, we can nevertheless speak rightly about God. In order to express something about God, we use imperfect images and limited notions. And so everything we say about God is subject to the reservationContinue Reading
Q8 How does God reveal himself in the Old Testament?
God shows himself in the Old Testament as God, who created the world out of love and remains faithful to men even when they have fallen away from him into sin. God makes it possible to experience him in history: With Noah he establishes a covenant to save all livingContinue Reading
RELIGION
We can understand religion generally to mean a relationship to what is divine. A religious person acknowledges something divine as the power that created him and the world, on which he is dependent and to which he is ordered. He wants to please and honor the Divinity by his wayContinue Reading
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the one true Church founded by Jesus Christ. It is also called the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, the Bride of Christ, or simply the Church. It is the society founded by OurContinue Reading
