RE: Ask a Catholic
June 6, 2015 at 5:55 pm
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2015 at 6:03 pm by Randy Carson.)
(June 6, 2015 at 5:32 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(June 6, 2015 at 4:52 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Google an article entitled, Grace: What It Is and What It Does
I'm flabbergasted.... nothing about grace and truth in this piece you cited: http://www.catholic.com/tracts/grace-wha...at-it-does.
How does that grace give you some insight into what is true?
Actually, my question was "how would you know that what a particular religion claims is the truth?"
And you give me the presupposition that your religion's claims are representative of reality.
No, my question comes before the presupposition of the religion... How can you be sure that one of them is true?
And I said I know this by God's grace. But reason/logic and revelation play a role, too. Everyone may look at creation and discern God's handiwork - though not all do, of course.
I'd have to think about how revelation and grace are intertwined...
Any how, I thought the article was pretty clear on grace, but perhaps that's because I'm more familiar with the terminology.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
GRACE: The free and undeserved gift that God gives to us to respond to our vocation and to become his adopted children. As sanctifying grace, God shares his divine life and friendship with us in a habitual gift, a stable and supernatural disposition that enables the soul to live with God, to act by his love. As actual grace, God give us the help to conform our lives to his will. Sacramental grace and special graces (charisms, the grace of state in life) are gifts of the Holy Spirit to help us live out our Christian vocation.