Catechism of the Catholic Church: Difference between revisions

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* God can be understood by reason
* God can be understood by reason
* yet reason has obstacles to that understanding of God
* yet reason has obstacles to that understanding of God
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*The relation between God and man goes beyond what can be observed ("visible order of things")
*if they can be part of man's experience, man must submit to God ("they call for self-surrender and abnegation")
*Man's reason ("the human mind") cannot easily attain "such truths"
**"impacted" (hampered) by senses (what man imperfectly perceives) and imagination (what man imagines or dreams of)
**"disordered" (negatively impacted by) "appetites" (desires) that "are the consequences of original sin."
*so men when trying to attain "such truths"
**convince ("easily persuade") themselves that what they don't want to be true ("what they would not like to be true is false") is not true, or "doubtful" (likely not true)
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