Sunday, October 26, 2008

"Not by bread alone is man saved but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God."

Belief: the sure knowledge that something is true; be it by proof or by trusted testimony.  Belief may not be caused by sensible things alone, nor may it be caused by an abstract idea alone.  Both must be involved for the soul and the body believe, for knowledge to be had.  And of these, of the soul and body, the soul has primacy for its motion is closest to God.  Hence the primacy of the Word in the causation of belief.  Yet this is not to discount the necessity of the sensible, hence the necessity of signs, in the history of God's people; sacrifice, sacraments, without which signs belief may not be had.

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