-What is God's cosmic plan for man?
-What is the Church?
-What is the Kingdom of God?
-God created man to partake in his divine life
-Man rejected it
-God sought out man to reconcile and restore him to what he was created for
-The Son brought redemption by his Paschal Mystery and preached of the Kingdom of God
-He instituted a new covenant with a New Covenant in the New Passover and New Paschal Lamb
-The New Chosen People, New Priesthood in this New Covenant he established and called the Church, with Peter as the Rock
-He formed the Apostles and taught them about the Kingdom of God, preparing them for the Church, with Peter as the Rock
-It is in the Church, established by Christ, that Holy Spirit and sanctifying grace received for out transformation and salvation
God's Plan For Man
-Share in his divine life
-inaugurated by creation/salvation history
-reached fullness with christ and his Church
-will be fulfilled at end time
-when all who cooperated with grace are gathered together in the universal Church
How does God make it possible for man to share in divine life?
-Man can share in divine life through:
A. the Incarnation
B. graces of redemption
Ex: Apostles receive grace of H. S. after "I believe"
C. Mediated through the church Christ founded
-Ex: Baptism. Nicomendus
What is the Church: the tool or instrument of redemption: assembly of God's people
Ekklesia- those who called out
Qahal- Chosen people
Successors of the Chosen People of the Old Covenant
the People of God
The role of the Church is to bring subjective reasoning to each subject to each person
+the baptism example again+
Without Peter and the Apostles what would happen when Christ ascended
BOLD CLAIM- The kingdom of God on earth subsists in the Catholic Church
-What is the Kingdom of God?
-Christ
-Christ acting in the hearts of Men
-Mankind in communion with the Blessed Trinity
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