CCC 36
Profession of Faith›SECTION ONE "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"›CHAPTER ONE MAN'S CAPACITY FOR GOD›III. The Knowledge of God According to the Church
"Our holy mother, the Church, holds and teaches that God, the first principle and last end of all things, can be known with certainty from the created world by the natural light of human reason." Without this capacity, man would not be able to welcome God's revelation. Man has this capacity because he is created "in the image of God".
Footnotes
- Vatican Council I, Dei Filius 2: DS 3004 cf. 3026; Vatican Council II, Dei Verbum 6.
- Cf. ⇒ Gen 1:27
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