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@BIG_SGT_D Rejoice: the Catholic Church doesn’t teach that the Divine Being—whose essence *is* sheer Existence, thus beyond artistic representation—is anything like an image *of a member* of Christ’s Body, even if the Incarnate Son, its Head, is truly called the Image of the invisible God.

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@Samuel43750453 Incensing the book containing texts from the God-authored, God-breathed Gospels before reading them in the Church’s supreme act of adoration is, of course, not *The* Gospel—neither is the use of incense in the Heavenly liturgy (Rev 5:8, 8:3-4) *The* Gospel, but that’s no problem.

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@QuestionTrinity The subsistent relations constituting the Persons are each really and numerically identical with the divine essence; thus, no Person is really distinct from the divine essence as if it were a fourth “thing”.

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@PracticalTheolo Via revelation & reason: differences of nature entail separate absolute entities—tritheism—irreconcilable with both biblical monotheism & divine simplicity. The nature of the numerically one & only God is indivisible, so real distinction must be solely in/by relative opposition.

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@Deep_biblestudy To believe in Him is to believe in His word, and it’s His word that He promises to give Himself as real food and real drink in a sign that truly makes present the very reality it signifies—this promise He fulfills at His Passover, which He commands to be celebrated as a memorial.

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@QuestionTrinity The divine essence is a “thing” (res) insofar as the divine essence *is* God and God is that one certain supreme reality (illa una quaedam summa res).

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@IndianaBrunner “We” have already been reborn as God’s sons by the unmerited grace of the justification of the ungodly, which grants the promise of eternal life as a *graced* inheritance that acquires the additional character of a promised *reward* for the fruits produced in us through grace.

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@farmingandJesus The one Mediator between God and men forever lives to intercede for the members of His Body, therefore His members are urged to intercede for all men in union with the Body’s Head who is their very life.

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@Samuel43750453 The very same historical-critical method that led Kung to reject the papacy also led him to “re-interpret” the Trinity and the deity of Christ in a way that would make your stomach squirm.

So. You’re a fan of liberal theology.

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@deplorable2025 @residentreformr Nowhere close. All moments of time are immediately present to God—including the moment of His giving to Mary the grace to actualize her freedom to consent without fail or coercion, which He eternally decreed. Such good God positively wills in contrast to the evil He permits.

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@Younos2025 @ComeYeSinners What’s transmitted is human nature deprived of original holiness & justice. That deprivation—a state contracted, not an act committed—is called in Adam’s descendants “original sin,” having no character of a personal fault in any of them even though they’re implicated in his sin.

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@Troy_Arcadia @AwaitingChrist The gift of being preserved from sin is ordered toward her predestined motherhood of the One who is the Redeemer & the only begotten Son. God could’ve preserved Adam & Eve from sin—had He freely willed it—but it would’ve been ordered to the maintenance of their original justice.

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@needGod_net Eternal life is a grace mercifully promised in the justification of the ungodly, and this gift of inheritance acquires the additional character of a promised reward in the further justification of God’s sons without losing its fundamentally gratuitous character.

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@IndianaBrunner The Catholic doctrine of Baptism is of an *efficacious* sign by which the Holy Spirit infuses (along with hope & charity) the theological virtue of faith it signifies, thus this sacrament of faith is the *instrumental cause*
by which God the efficient cause justifies the ungodly.

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@renewingprotest Then prove with the certainty of faith that can’t be subject to error the *supernatural fact* that the Letter to the Hebrews counts as God-inspired Scripture.