Posted by Fides, etc. on January 26, 19101 at 16:42:48:
In Reply to: Classic - Cocoa metaphor: affirmations, limitations, spirituality. posted by Teresita on January 26, 19101 at 14:56:25:
Every time we consent to love, we travers that bridge and become more transformed--carbonized, to use the current OS metaphor.
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Dear T.,
Just when I was starting to really buy into the OS metaphor as a posible catechetical tool, you come out with the above. You seem to be saying that "all you need is love," to quote JPGR.
I know 1 Jn. 4 says God is love, and those who love are in God and God in them. But the New Testament also has a lot to say about faith in Christ. "No one comes to the Father except through me," said Jesus.
So, could you be saying that faith enables us to love better, and so become transformed/carbonized more effectively than if we don't have faith? I could buy that, as far as it goes. It seems to me that more credit needs be given the role of faith in overcoming the disintegrative dynamism of sin.
What say?
Fe