In the OLD TESTAMENT God reveals himself as the Creator and preserver of the world and as the leader and instructor of mankind. The Old Testament books are also God’s Word and Sacred Scripture. Without the Old Testament, we cannot understand Jesus. In the OLD TESTAMENT a great history ofContinue Reading
The right way to read Sacred Scripture is to read it prayerfully, in other words, with the help of the Holy Spirit, under whose influence it came into being. It is God’s Word and contains God’s essential communication to us. The BIBLE is like a long letter written by GodContinue Reading
The BIBLE is not meant to convey precise historical information or scientific findings to us. Moreover, the authors were children of their time. They shared the cultural ideas of the world around them and often were also dominated by its errors. Nevertheless, everything that man must know about God andContinue Reading
“The books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach [the] truth. . . . Written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author” (Second Vatican Council, DV 11). The BIBLE did not fall from heaven in its final form, nor did God dictate itContinue Reading
The faithful as a whole cannot err in faith, because Jesus promised his disciples that he would send them the Spirit of truth and keep them in the truth (Jn 14:17). Just as the disciples believed Jesus with their whole heart, a Christian can rely completely on the Church whenContinue Reading
We find the true faith in Sacred Scripture and in the living Tradition of the Church. The NEW TESTAMENT developed out of the faith of the Church. Scripture and Tradition belong together. Handing on the faith does not occur primarily through documents. In the early Church it was said thatContinue Reading
We are here on earth in order to know and to love God, to do good according to his will, and to go someday to heave. To be a human being means to come from God and to go to God. Our origin goes back farther than our parents. WeContinue Reading
We hand on the faith because Jesus commands us: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations” (Mt 28:19) No Genuine Christian leaves the transmission of the faith exclusively to specialists (teachers, pastors, missionaries). We are Christ for others. This means that every genuine Christian would like God to comeContinue Reading
In Jesus Christ, God himself came to earth. He is God’s last Word. By listening to him, all men of all times can know who God is and what is necessary for their salvation. With the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the revelation of God is perfect and complete. To makeContinue Reading
Yes. Human reason can know God with certainty. The world cannot have its origin and its destination within itself. In everything that exists, there is more than we see. The order, the beauty, and the development of the world point beyond themselves toward God. Every man is receptive to whatContinue Reading
