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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mancipium Mariae" data-source="post: 1476210" data-attributes="member: 22409">1. Yes God is infinitely good and perfect and all-powerful, and humans are mere nothings compared to Him strictly speaking. But humans are made in His image, and our immortal souls reflect the Immortality of God, and the faculties of our souls reflect the Divine Trinity. Of course I say reflect, because in His perfection, He made us in His image, but we are not like God of course, as St. Michael the Archangel says (and his very name means) "who is like God?" This is the great mystery of creation. But think of the dignity of humans as well, that God would choose to dwell with us, and choose the Holy Theotokos as His own Mother, and choose to humble Himself to become human? That is the great mystery of the Incarnation. Lots to think about.2. All of creation is inferior to God because God is the Supreme Being above all things, by Whom all things were made. He Who said "I Am Who Am" is far above everything. He created the world "and saw that it was good" because He can do no wrong, for He is Almighty God. He created man because it was His perfect will, and if it is His perfect will, we need not question why. Surely we are all happy to be alive, immortal souls in a body where God wishes to dwell- what is more beautiful than that? Even the Angels, (the good Angels of course) if they could envy, the saints say they would envy us for the fact that we are corporeal and can receive the Risen Lord Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. So God created us, infinitely inferior to Himself, because it was good. And of course this great mystery prompts the prophet to ask similar questions to the one you ask,"What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour:And hast set him over the works of thy hands." (Psalm 8:5-7)I suppose the answer to your question can be found in our purpose as children of God: to know, love, and serve Him in this world and be happy with Him forever in the next. Why does God love us, so little and worthless compared to Him? Why did God desire to create us as He did, so inferior to Himself? It was His Divine will, and therefore, it is the best possible thing. Rejoice, for you are "fearfully and wonderfully made."3. God is perfectly just. He is merciful and just. To whom much is given, much is expected. You will not be condemned unless you condemn yourself through mortal sin, that is, sin which is gravely evil, you know it is gravely evil, and you commit it with full consent of your will. Objectively speaking, there is no salvation outside the one, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. But the Catholic Church has long since taught baptism of desire, and long since lauded the infinite mercies of God. Individually, we cannot make a determination of who is and is not saved among the ignorant and pagans, God alone knows the heart of the individual and is perfectly just to all. But we know that the objective truth is that the Church is the ark of salvation which God wills all men to find and enter. You are not responsible for what you could never have known, but you are responsible for the natural law which is written on every heart, pagan or Christian, from all time. We know right and wrong and we were made for God. The Church is there for our salvation, but those who never had a missionary to tell them, we don't know their fate ultimately, but we know that God is merciful and just, and cannot be unjust.4. God is the answer. The Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, Crucified for our salvation, and His Holy Mother the Blessed Virgin Mary, mediatrix of all graces.5. That is correct.</blockquote>

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