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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 | ||
* | *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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