Catechism of the Catholic Church Study 27

Desire is distinct from will. While will is the principle of motion in rational creatures, desire is an attraction which has potential to affect the will. I hypothesize that desire has a relationship with happiness and suffering, or positive and negative moral experiences. In general, sensitive creatures avoid suffering and tend toward happiness. Suffering may be defined as the experience when a desire is not fulfilled and contradicted. Happiness is thus the experience when the desire is fulfilled. It seems to me that there is a hierarchy of desires. With the desire for God being the deepest or highest desire in mankind.

As such, the fulfillment or contradiction of this desire constitutes the greatest happiness or suffering. Yet this law of desire does not find itself in the necessary reality but seems to me a product of God’s creative design. For it seems logically possible for me that a being experiences happiness and suffering irrespective of desire. So without desire, beings can still move, feel happiness, suffering, and so on. Yet the desire for God is instilled within man perhaps to ease him to move towards God. I imagine that if man has no desire for God, then he has no desire for anything at all. The desire for God is what drives man to live and reach for anything at all. As man is inherently designed by God to seek Him and reach Him.

If the hypothesis of desire is correct, then we now know why hell is the worst of all suffering and pain, because it is the contradiction of man’s most fundamental desire, thus it is the contradiction of his very purpose and existence. While it is most reasonable why heaven, which is union with God would be the greatest of all happiness. Of course, as written before, it is possible that God is not the greatest desire of man. Man may desire something else more than he desires God and thus God will simply be “truth” but not happiness to man.

As such, that the Holy Church teaches that God is the truth and happiness to man is an article of the faith, not just something that can be reasoned from necessity. This desire for God, is not only God’s instrument of justice but is also His instrument of mercy. For it is through this desire that God calls everyone to repentance and thus to salvation. Without the desire, or the attraction to God, how can man ever reach God? The desire for God is thus the way such that man has a natural capacity for God, otherwise there will never be any motion towards God or anything at all.

Man’s basic dignity is based on this purpose of man, communion with God. As such man is a most noble creature no matter what or who he is. The invitation to converse with God is addressed to man as soon as he comes into being, that is since he is conceived in his mother’s womb. Even though as an embryo man has not developed his intellect, the natural graces of God has existed in his soul. This is because every person is created by love and for love, the love of God. If man does not acknowledge this love freely and surrenders himself to the Creator, he cannot fully live according to the truth. For the truth is that love of God which creates and sustains man. To reject that love is akin to rejecting one’s own existence, and the justice of God shall answer that sin.

A Correction of CCC 26-27

It is in fact perfectly reasonable to deduce that God is the Supreme Happiness of all mankind and in fact any rational creature. This has been elaborated and proven in my canon of writings. As such, it is important to know that it is not an unattainable truth that God is the ultimate happiness of creatures. Rather it is in fact the necessary culmination of natural theology that God is the ultimate happiness, thus paving the path for divine theology or supernatural theology.

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