Below are three questions from the Baltimore Catechism #2.
10. Q. How shall we know the things which we are to believe?
A. We shall know the things which we are to believe from the Catholic Church, through which God speaks to us.
30. Q. Can we fully understand how the three Divine Persons are one and the same God?
A. We cannot fully understand how the three Divine Persons are one and the same God, because this is a mystery.
31. Q. What is a mystery?
A. A mystery is a truth which we cannot fully understand.
Question 10 would seem useful only to those who say, “I just don’t know what to believe!”
To which the Church says, “Believe you me.”
Questions 30 & 31 tell us we have to believe things we can’t understand—“Mysteries.”
Hint: The Catholic Church claims it’s authority comes from Jesus, as documented in the Bible’s New Testament. The Catholic Church wrote the New Testament.
This is nothing but an invitation to intellectual infantilism.
To which the Church says, “Believe you me.”
Questions 30 & 31 tell us we have to believe things we can’t understand—“Mysteries.”
Hint: The Catholic Church claims it’s authority comes from Jesus, as documented in the Bible’s New Testament. The Catholic Church wrote the New Testament.
This is nothing but an invitation to intellectual infantilism.
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