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* Made in the image of God, man is capable of understanding God's knowledge, but... | * Made in the image of God, man is capable of understanding God's knowledge, but... | ||
** God's knowledge is shielded by man's incomplete perception of it | ** God's knowledge is shielded from man by man's incomplete perception of it | ||
** and, worse, further misguided by sin. | ** and, worse, further misguided by sin. | ||
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* God can be understood by reason | * God's knowledge can be understood by reason (by men) | ||
* | * God "watches over and controls the world" | ||
* yet man's reason has obstacles to that understanding | |||
* | *Man's reason ("the human mind") cannot easily attain "such truths" | ||
*Man's reason ("the human mind") cannot easily attain "such truths" | **because the relation between God and man goes beyond what can be observed ("visible order of things") | ||
**"impacted" (hampered) by senses (what man imperfectly perceives) and imagination (what man imagines or dreams of) | **as it is "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." | *to begin to perceive God's truths (that go beyond what can be seen by man), man must "transcend" or get beyond what is seen in "human action" | ||
**"self-surrender and abnegation" (renouncing man's conceit) are required | |||
*worse, man's perceptions are "disordered" (negatively impacted by) "appetites" (desires) that "are the consequences of original sin." | |||
*so when man false short of pure reason (incorrect perception, sin, etc.) | *so when man false short of pure reason (incorrect perception, sin, etc.) | ||
** | **he convinces ("easily persuade") himself that what he doesn't want to be true (God's word) is not true, or "doubtful" (likely not true) | ||
**i.e. = he fools himself | |||
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