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sábado, 12 de agosto de 2017

The nature of man is the emulation of God


Thomas Aquinas takes the concept of nature from Aristotle and explains in his work Summa Theologica that the good is a nature. A nature is according to Aristotle to what the being tends in its development. Thomas Aquinas concludes that every being desires its own good or perfection and that the good is a nature, all being tends to its own completitude or to say towards its maximum development. Example: the fruit is good when it is mature.
The gospels add some information about the good: "Only God is good" Mark 10:18The good is a perfection of God, is a spiritual gift, God is the source of the good.
Then a question arises, what is the good of man? What is the nature of man? What does man tend in his development?

We can say that the adult man is the man gifted of the Art of Listening; so what is the Art of Listening?
The Art of Listening is: listen (perceive with attention), meditate (with intuition and inspiration), decide.
Practical cases are: Jesus and the denarius (Mark 12), Jesus and the prostitute (John 8)
The Art of Listening is known as Emulating God (Book of Rhetoric, Aristotle), or to say we resolve what is presented to our judgement as God in person, capturing the mind of God. That is the action of the Holy Spirit in the Christian Religion.
Concluding we can affirm that the nature of man is the conformity to God, the nature of man is the emulation of God.
http://www.quintoevangelio.com.ar/en/articles/item/90-the-nature-of-man.html

lunes, 7 de agosto de 2017

The divine providence

Providence, as Thomas Aquinas explains, is the divine prudence, there are passages in the Bible that allude to this divine attribute (remember that a divine attribute is a non-transmissible gift or perfection): "For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But  seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" Matthew 6:32-33; and, "Oh Father, your rule eveything with Providence" Wisdom 14:3
The divine Providence is related with the Security in God or the Confidence in God. Security o Confidence in God is not fate, fate is accept the creed. Every religion has his own creed, the creed are a set of affirmation that stablish a religion.  The Security in God is directly related with the spiritual gift of Knowledge, the promise of the beatitudes, and the divine guide.
http://www.quintoevangelio.com.ar/en/articles/item/37-providence.html