As a humble servant of God, I shall endeavor here to write briefly what I believe, given the limitations of my poor faculties or reason and study.
I believe in one triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who exists above and beyond space and time, infinite in reason, knowledge, power, and love, and lacking no attributes without limit. He called into being the universe with all its physical laws and dimensions and moral laws of right and wrong. His guiding, gentle, and invisible hand moves the universe in progress to its conclusion and fulfillment. God created with love and enthusiasm the universe out of his own free will with a desire to express his creativity in infinite forms.
God created the cosmos, stars, planets, and life through his natural laws being the divine author of creation, but he is more. He is the merciful Father who conceived life on this planet, including human beings, created with reason, language, emotions, and free will in his image. He seeks to have a loving relationship with humanity, which originally lived in an innocent state of nature. Still, sin, the willful straying from God and his way, entered the world for reasons lost in antiquity and is now endemic to the human condition; all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and are subject to sin accordingly to death.
In his infinite mercy, God has planted the love of morality into the hearts of each person who is entrusted to nurture and develop it to be more in God’s image, enabling them to be capable of great virtue and vice. God has granted humanity stewardship of nature to treat all life as endowed with the Father’s animation, worthy of dignity and respect.
As expressed in his gift of language, God created human beings to be social beings, making speaking, writing, reading, and listening civil and sacred. He gave humanity the gift of reason and our senses that they may understand the world about them, emotions to provide them with effervescence to life, and a love of beauty so that humanity may appreciate the aesthetic grandeur about them. He calls on humans to reproduce so that society may continue to exist into posterity.
God has entered several covenants with humanity expressing his infinite love for them, but society has broken them in sinful rebellion and gone astray. God sent his Son, born of the Virgin Mary, both of whom are without sin, into the world in the fullness of time. He ministered for three years and proclaimed the Gospel of unconditional love, the forgiveness of sins, and justice for the poor, marginalized, and estranged. Judas betrayed him with a kiss, and he suffered under Pontius Pilot to redeem the world from aimlessness and sin on the cross. The suffering servant and prince of peace died, descended into the land of the dead, the Father rose him on the third day, and he showed himself first to Mary Magdalene and then to the disciples.
During Jesus’ earthly life, he called on his followers to a life of service, simplicity, and humility, love one another as he first loved them, love God with all their heart, mind, and might, and love their neighbors as their selves. He called on his followers to treat others as they wanted others to treat them. He called on the Apostles to go throughout the world, proclaim the Gospel, and baptize for the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Also, during his ministry, he worked miracles, healing the sick, and raising the dead. He ascended into heaven and, on Pentecost, bestowed the Holy Spirit upon the 12, who proclaimed the Gospel in tongues to the crowd, each hearing it in their native language.
The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, goes by many names, advocate, counselor, and paraclete. He descended on to Jesus upon his baptism. The Holy Spirit comes from the Father and Son in love to enliven our hearts and guide our wisdom. He is mysterious and enigmatic, ever-present, and is animating, rejuvenating, and empowering the essence of all creation. He is the very breath of God and serves to seal all sacraments.
I believe in one Holy, Apostolic Church, the bride of Christ, the Holy Bible, God’s inspiration of scripture, and the role of tradition in the life of the Church. Humanity realizes their fullest expression of faith through bodily worship in the Church. I believe in the power and effectiveness of the sacraments and in the magisterium of the Church and its authority to forgive and bind sins. Furthermore, I believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting. Also, I believe all who accept Jesus is the Christ shall have eternal life.
I am a humble servant of the Lord, a sinner who needs his forgiveness and grace. He has blessed me with many gifts, especially my mind. He has given me a hunger to learn, seek out knowledge, and share what I find through my writings. In that, I express that I’m a social being. He gives me meager faculties, so I have no reason to boast or become prideful, but I strive to love him with my entire being. I endeavor to love my neighbor as myself and practice moderation in all things. The ultimate end of my life is to commune and contemplate the ideal form of God.
As a humble servant of God, I shall endeavor here to write briefly what I believe, given the limitations of my poor faculties or reason and study.
I believe in one triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who exists above and beyond space and time, infinite in reason, knowledge, power, and love, and lacking no attributes without limit. He called into being the universe with all its physical laws and dimensions and moral laws of right and wrong. His guiding, gentle, and invisible hand moves the universe in progress to its conclusion and fulfillment. God created with love and enthusiasm the universe out of his own free will with a desire to express his creativity in infinite forms.
God created the cosmos, stars, planets, and life through his natural laws being the divine author of creation, but he is more. He is the merciful Father who conceived life on this planet, including human beings, created with reason, language, emotions, and free will in his image. He seeks to have a loving relationship with humanity, which originally lived in an innocent state of nature. Still, sin, the willful straying from God and his way, entered the world for reasons lost in antiquity and is now endemic to the human condition; all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and are subject to sin accordingly to death.
In his infinite mercy, God has planted the love of morality into the hearts of each person who is entrusted to nurture and develop it to be more in God’s image, enabling them to be capable of great virtue and vice. God has granted humanity stewardship of nature to treat all life as endowed with the Father’s animation, worthy of dignity and respect.
As expressed in his gift of language, God created human beings to be social beings, making speaking, writing, reading, and listening civil and sacred. He gave humanity the gift of reason and our senses that they may understand the world about them, emotions to provide them with effervescence to life, and a love of beauty so that humanity may appreciate the aesthetic grandeur about them. He calls on humans to reproduce so that society may continue to exist into posterity.
God has entered several covenants with humanity expressing his infinite love for them, but society has broken them in sinful rebellion and gone astray. God sent his Son, born of the Virgin Mary, both of whom are without sin, into the world in the fullness of time. He ministered for three years and proclaimed the Gospel of unconditional love, the forgiveness of sins, and justice for the poor, marginalized, and estranged. Judas betrayed him with a kiss, and he suffered under Pontius Pilot to redeem the world from aimlessness and sin on the cross. The suffering servant and prince of peace died, descended into the land of the dead, the Father rose him on the third day, and he showed himself first to Mary Magdalene and then to the disciples.
During Jesus’ earthly life, he called on his followers to a life of service, simplicity, and humility, love one another as he first loved them, love God with all their heart, mind, and might, and love their neighbors as their selves. He called on his followers to treat others as they wanted others to treat them. He called on the Apostles to go throughout the world, proclaim the Gospel, and baptize for the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Also, during his ministry, he worked miracles, healing the sick, and raising the dead. He ascended into heaven and, on Pentecost, bestowed the Holy Spirit upon the 12, who proclaimed the Gospel in tongues to the crowd, each hearing it in their native language.
The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, goes by many names, advocate, counselor, and paraclete. He descended on to Jesus upon his baptism. The Holy Spirit comes from the Father and Son in love to enliven our hearts and guide our wisdom. He is mysterious and enigmatic, ever-present, and is animating, rejuvenating, and empowering the essence of all creation. He is the very breath of God and serves to seal all sacraments.
I believe in one Holy, Apostolic Church, the bride of Christ, the Holy Bible, God’s inspiration of scripture, and the role of tradition in the life of the Church. Humanity realizes their fullest expression of faith through bodily worship in the Church. I believe in the power and effectiveness of the sacraments and in the magisterium of the Church and its authority to forgive and bind sins. Furthermore, I believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting. Also, I believe all who accept Jesus is the Christ shall have eternal life.
I am a humble servant of the Lord, a sinner who needs his forgiveness and grace. He has blessed me with many gifts, especially my mind. He has given me a hunger to learn, seek out knowledge, and share what I find through my writings. In that, I express that I’m a social being. He gives me meager faculties, so I have no reason to boast or become prideful, but I strive to love him with my entire being. I endeavor to love my neighbor as myself and practice moderation in all things. The ultimate end of my life is to commune and contemplate the ideal form of God.