Catechism of the Catholic Church Study 28
The natural consequence of the universal desire for God which inheres within the nature of man is that we should expect a universal tendency towards God in all history of mankind. Yes it is possible for man to be deceived, either by himself or by the demonic beings, but even in their deception they still strive toward God. Though many times they will fail and fall into eternal loss of God. This universal tendency of man throughout all history makes man a religious being. What it means is that man is a being which tends or even will absolutely bind himself to something higher than himself, even if that thing is himself.
God has decreed
everything which includes the times and places each man shall live. This
expression is to illustrate that God has provided sufficient grace for each man
so that man may recognize the invitation of God and search for Him. Yet even
so, it is written, that God is not far from all of us, for it is in Him that we
live and move and have our being. This is the sublime truth of natural
theology, that our very existence and motions are decreed and in fact sustained
by God’s being, as His love is precisely His essence. However, at the same
time, there is a sense of distance from God due to sin, thus many times man
does not see God in their lives, and by the reprobation of God and the sin of
man, they fall into damnation.
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