From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 18:49:30 EDT
In a message dated 7/21/03 1:41:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
jzents@earthlink.net writes:
> I think we should be cautious in using the phrase "natural
> inclinations." For Thomas Aquinas, to pick just one example, our
> "natural inclinations" are wholly good; they direct us to the
> authentic human goods, chief among which is love of God. You
> apparently mean to refer, Sondra, to "desires," or "personal
> preferences," or perhaps even "tendencies to sin." But confusing
> these with "natural inclinations" winds up suggesting that our
> created being is oriented away from God, and this will make hash out
> of any notion of the imago dei, among other things.
>
>
Our created being was altered by the fall in which we decided NOT to be
oriented to God, but to ourselves. That was our choice and we made it after we were
created.
rich faussette
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