1.6 È possibile trovare Dio nella natura e nel mondo?
Se guardi attentamente alla natura, troverai che tutto è magnificamente coordinato e si incastra meravigliosamente. Non sembra improbabile che tutto questo sia venuto all’esistenza per pura coincidenza? Nessuna teoria sull’origine della vita e dell’universo è completa senza una mente o un Creatore dietro tutto ciò. Chiamiamo questa mente Dio.
Proprio come un artista, Dio rivela qualcosa di se stesso nella natura, precisamente che esiste e che ha creato il mondo (chiamiamo questo rivelazione naturale). Il messaggio principale della fede è che Dio ha creato il mondo per amore per gli esseri umani.
How is it possible to know God with only the light of human reason?
Starting from creation, that is from the world and from the human person, through reason alone one can know God with certainty as the origin and end of the universe, as the highest good and as infinite truth and beauty. [CCCC 3]
Can we know the existence of God by our reason?
Yes. Human reason can know God with certainty.
The world cannot have its origin and its destination within itself. In everything that exists, there is more than we see. The order, the beauty, and the development of the world point beyond themselves toward God. Every man is receptive to what is true, good, and beautiful. He hears within himself the voice of conscience, which urges him to what is good and warns him against what is evil. Anyone who follows this path reasonably finds God. [Youcat 4]
In respect, therefore, of his being the Maker of this world, that is visible in heaven and earth around us, God was known unto all nations even before they were indoctrinated into the faith of Christ. [St Augustine, On the Gospel of John, Tract 106:4 (ML 35, 1910)]
