MAPAGDALITA,MARK ANTHONY L.

JULY 13,2017
BAGE-104

SOUL KNOWLEDGE FREEWILL SIN

ST. AGUSTINE is generally Augustine took the freedom of the When the human
considered as view that, if a literal will from born we have sin
one of the interpretation external because of what
greatest contradicts science constraint is does of adan and
Christian and our God-given always absolute. eve. The antidote of
thinkers of all reason, the Biblical Its freedom our sin is the
times. His text should be becomes baptism. But for me
writings were interpreted impaired when it the greatest grace in
very influential in metaphorically. begins to choose our life is the
the development While each passage the wrong kind sacrifice of the loving
of Western of Scripture has a of love and so to of God to us,in the
Christianity. literal sense, this bind itself to people sinners. God
According to his "literal sense" does inferior choices saved us to all our
contemporary not always mean in a self- sinners in the world.
Jerome, that the Scriptures perpetuating, God’s created good
Augustine are mere history; at self-damning to his people but his
"established times they are process. When people does there
anew the ancient rather an divine grace evil side exists only
Faith." In his extended metaphor. intervenes, it as that which falls
early years he liberates the short of good.
was heavily individual from But, to Augustine,
influenced by the bondage of while everything that
Manichaeism wrong past resides in this space
and afterward by choices. Precisely falling short of good
the Neo- how this is evil, all evil is not
Platonism of happens is a little automatically “sin.”
Plotinus. unclear to
Augustine, but it
is clear that God,
without ever
tampering with
the interior
working of the
will itself, can
still direct its
choices by
altering, in
perfect
omniscience, the
circumstances
that affect the
will.
ST. THOMAS The soul is For Thomas, the St. Thomas first Aquinas defines sin:
AQUINAS indeed capable knowledge is to of all believes, as "a word, deed, or
of existence abstract the form or rather desire, contrary to
apart from the of concrete things, assumes, that the eternal law.
body at which makes it the will is free.
death.This subject individual The purpose of
Throughout his
incorruptibility beings. The Christ's Incarnation
results from the writings, was to restore
abstraction falsifies however, he
actualities of the reality and
human nature by
understanding devotes a removing the
affirms the existecia
and willing that considerable contamination of sin,
separately the
are not the amount of time which humans
individual subject.
actualities of any to questions cannot do by
Human knowledge
bodily organ,but regarding this themselves. "Divine
lies in the
of the human assumed Wisdom judged it
animal as such separation of form fitting that God
at the intellectual freedom. By
distinguished by should become man,
level. means of his
the rational so that thus one and
Form can be philosophical
form. the same person
viewed in three approach, would be able both
ways: based to restore man and
-In re, as a form of principally to offer
the thing itself is upon Aristotle, satisfaction." Aquinas
there. he explains the argued in favor of
Post-rem, so will's freedom the satisfaction view
presentation in as being based of atonement; that
human on the nature is, that Jesus
understanding. The of existing Christ died "to satisfy
form is abstracted reality and the for the whole human
and human psyche.
race, which was
dematerialized. sentenced to die on
The large account of sin.
"Before rem, as is
amount of time
the way the forms
he gives to the
are in the mind of
topic is to
God. Before being
understand the
dematerialized.
The procedure of
generally
abstraction of accepted
understanding phenomenon
guarantees the and not to
truth of intellectual prove its
knowledge. Things veracity.
are the measure of
human truth and
the truth is the fit
between reality (the
thing) and
 understanding, but
things are
measured by the
understanding of
God, and that his
understanding is
the measure of all
that exists.
MY OWN As a person ,my In my own For myself I have The people always
spiritual belief in perception about the freedom to have mistakes in all
life is to have Gods creation in this know what to do or in other situation
sympathy in world is the in my life , but that sometimes
other people as greatest love of his Twe need to happens and become
much as possible done is to have a have self- a sin. We do not
,and help them if beautiful nature of limitation and to know the right and
they need help his people. And know what is wrong. For me I am
to you.big or giving to us a grace right and wrong. not a perfect man in
small it. and forgiveness to this world ,because I
our sins. Being a do some flaws and
likenees of God I mistakes especially
believe that the to my family. But I try
best do in our self is my best to avoid that
to change and in the way of praying
always be a good to God in have faith
person to other to him.
people. And never
give up like the love
of God to us .any
trials we need to
face it and stand it
,to the new journey
and us a part of our
life.