Commentary on My Catholic Faith: God the Supreme Being

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen. Supernatural Revelation matches Natural Revelation that there is God, the Highest Being (or Supreme), lacking in nothing, beginning and sustaining all things in existence with the exception of Himself. By Natural Revelation we acknowledge that all traditions of all nations and races have an idea of some sort of God. They all have an inner conviction of His existence, and our intellect supports this instict.

By Revelation, we know that God is immaterial, He possess no body in His Nature. He has an intellect and a will, which in the end are simply His Existence. As such, when we speak of “body parts” of God, it is merely figurative to ease our understanding of God. The purer understanding and language of God has no reference to such body or body parts. We are now revealed to the existence of angels and devils, which are also pure spirits, meaning they are immaterial and like God possess intellect and will. In a previous writing we acknowledge that the devil is evil, angels being distinct from devils are implied to be good spirits in alliance and service of God. It is revealed to us that we have a soul, the “self” which rises beyond the body is called a soul.

God is causally unlimited, His Existence, which is His Essence, has no beginning and thus His Being does not originate from any other Being. He simply is. It is revealed to us that man as a finite creature cannot fully understand the infinite, this follows from Natural Revelation and thus reason. Even in heaven, it is implied that our knowledge of God will always be in part and not in full. For by reason, only God can have full knowledge of Himself. Infinite Perfection means He possess all perfections without limit. His Infinity leads to incomprehensibility, comprehensibility being complete knowledge of something, therefore we cannot have complete knowledge of God.

Revelation speaks of every creature possessing some likeness to God, yet even the combination of every power and perfection of creation is united, it would still not face up to God’s supremacy. Some perfections of God are Eternity, Goodness, Knowledge, Presence, and Power. All of these perfections are actually identical among themselves and to God’s Existence. This is the idea of Divine Simplicity, a fundamental doctrine of the Faith, known to us through both kinds of Revelation. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen.

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