Q&A 65
4thday of Christmas. Bonus.
Q. So if we follow that theory it seems Christ was, or rather God, was going to become man anyway, regardless of whether or not Adam and Eve ate the apple.
A. When asked this question 800 years ago, Aquinas answered that in effect we don't know whether God would have become man if Original Sin had not happened.
On the one hand we do know that He became man because we sinned (and He knew this from all eternity).
On the other hand, love doesn't do the minimum possible.
Q. There's something I'm still not getting... Why does God go through all this trouble? Why become man in a forsaken village, with poor parents, in an animal cave or stable, with a feeding trough or manger for a bed? Why spend 33 years with ungrateful humans only to end up tortured and crucified naked in public? It just doesn't make sense!
A. And to make things even more ridiculous, guess what?
Q. What?
A. He wants us to imitate Him in this senselessness! To live the same kind of self-abandon in our relationships beginning with our families.
Here's what one lady writes: "Although God saw all these things before the creation, there was no reluctance on his part. Not for an instant did he hesitate; instead, he went ahead with the creation of the angel and of man, so desired by the Holy Spirit. The holiness of God loves and wills everything that he sees to be good and just, and his will never fluctuates.
...infinite goodness (which is, as I have said, wants as many people as possible to share in it) never leaves a good undone even if it will be repaid with ingratitude. It is impelled to act neither by interest nor esteem for there is nothing whatever worthy of God outside of himself; he was impelled only by his desire to do good.
…He is always doing good, even when he is repaid with ingratitude; he is always loving, even when his love is not returned."
28th December 2015