The God of the Gaps error goes like this: If scientists cannot explain how something occurs in nature, then it MUST be due to a special miracle by God.
Archives for January 2024
The Reality of Marriage: The Lifelong Union of One Man and One Woman
Marriage is the lifelong union of one man and one woman. It cannot be redefined. There’s no possibility of reshaping it into something new and essentially different, since marriage is authored by God and woven into the fabric of human life.
Does God Answer Every Prayer?
What is God prepared to give you? Answering that question will do a lot for your prayer life.
The Forbidden Fruit and Original Sin
The effects of original sin are passed on to all of Adam and Eve’s descendants. They are transmitted to mankind—to each of us. As head of the human race, what Adam lost he also lost for all men.
From Where Does Evil Come?
“Angels and men, as intelligent and free creatures, have to journey toward their ultimate destinies by their free choice and preferential love. They can therefore go astray. Indeed, they have sinned. Thus has moral evil, incommensurably more harmful than physical evil, entered the world” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 311).