1 God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.
I am going to do an apologetical study on each paragraph in the Roman Catechism. I am not sure what the extent of my studies will take me or how long I will dwell on each paragraph. I think it is important to study the Catechism. I would say this paragraph is sort of misleading because one must go through Mary to get to our Redeemer. It has a lot of good things to say but the Pope’s modified universalism and CCC 841 take away from the apparent exclusivity of Christ as Redeemer and Lord. To go through Mary is to find our Savior through a different means then going directly to Him alone. We ought to go to Christ alone and none other. We are divided by sin but it is sin to ask the Roman Catholic to explicitly believe in Christ but not the Animist in the universalistic sense. There is no universalism but only explicit belief in Jesus Christ our Lord and Redeemer.
