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Paragraph 357

"...and he is called by grace to a covenant with his Creator, to offer him a response of faith and love that no other creature can give in his stead."

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""Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity" (GS 14 # 1). the doctrine of the faith affirms that the spiritual and immortal soul is created immediately by God."

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"...We must therefore approach the question of the origin of evil by fixing the eyes of our faith on him who alone is its conqueror.[260]"

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Paragraph 390

"...place at the beginning of the history of man.[264] Revelation gives us the certainty of faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents.[265]"

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"...born afflicted, a sin which is the "death of the soul".[291] Because of this certainty of faith, the Church baptizes for the remission of sins even tiny infants who have not committed personal sin.[292]"

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Paragraph 424

"...Jesus and confess: 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.'[8] On the rock of this faith confessed by St. Peter, Christ built his Church.[9]"

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"Jesus accepted Peter's profession of faith, which acknowledged him to be the Messiah, by announcing the imminent Passion of the Son of Man.[40] He unveiled the authentic content of his messianic kingship both in the transcendent identity of the Son of Man "who came down from..."

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Paragraph 442

"...this acknowledgment of Christ's divine sonship will be the centre of the apostolic faith, first professed by Peter as the Church's foundation.[49]"

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Paragraph 444

"...the "only Son of God", and by this title affirms his eternal pre-existence.[54] He asks for faith in "the name of the only Son of God".[55] In the centurion's exclamation before the crucified Christ, "Truly this man was the Son of God",[56] that Christian confession is already..."

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Paragraph 449

"By attributing to Jesus the divine title "Lord", the first confessions of the Church's faith affirm from the beginning that the power, honour and glory due to God the Father are due also to Jesus, because "he was in the form of God",[65] and the Father manifested the sovereignty..."

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"Belief in the true Incarnation of the Son of God is the distinctive sign of Christian faith: "By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God."[85] Such is the joyous conviction of the Church from her beginning..."

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Paragraph 464

"...true man. During the first centuries, the Church had to defend and clarify this truth of faith against the heresies that falsified it."

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Paragraph 465

"...divinity as his true humanity (Gnostic Docetism). From apostolic times the Christian faith has insisted on the true incarnation of God's Son "come in the flesh".[87] But already in the third century, the Church in a council at Antioch had to affirm against Paul of..."

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"..."full of grace".[133] In fact, in order for Mary to be able to give the free assent of her faith to the announcement of her vocation, it was necessary that she be wholly borne by God's grace."

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Paragraph 496

"From the first formulations of her faith, the Church has confessed that Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, affirming also the corporeal aspect of this event: Jesus was conceived "by the Holy Spirit without human seed".[146]..."

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"The deepening of faith in the virginal motherhood led the Church to confess Mary's real and perpetual virginity even in the act of giving birth to the Son of God made man.[154] In fact, Christ's birth "did not diminish his mother's virginal integrity but sanctified it."[155] and..."

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"The eyes of faith can discover in the context of the whole of Revelation the mysterious reasons why God in his saving plan wanted his Son to be born of a virgin. These reasons touch both on the person of Christ and his redemptive mission, and on the welcome Mary gave that..."

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Paragraph 505

"...Jesus, the New Adam, ushers in the new birth of children adopted in the Holy Spirit through faith. "How can this be?"[165] Participation in the divine life arises "not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God".[166] The acceptance of this life is..."

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Paragraph 511

"The Virgin Mary "co-operated through free faith and obedience in human salvation" (LG 56). She uttered her yes "in the name of all human nature" (St. Thomas Aquinas, S Th III, 30, 1). By her obedience she became the new Eve, mother of the living."

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Paragraph 512

"...nothing explicitly about the mysteries of Jesus' hidden or public life, but the articles of faith concerning his Incarnation and Passover do shed light on the whole of his earthly life. "All that Jesus did and taught, from the beginning until the day when he was taken up to..."

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Paragraph 534

"...work?"[227] Mary and Joseph did not understand these words, but they accepted them in faith. Mary "kept all these things in her heart" during the years Jesus remained hidden in the silence of an ordinary life."

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Paragraph 543

"...word of the Lord is compared to a seed which is sown in a field; those who hear it with faith and are numbered among the little flock of Christ have truly received the kingdom. Then, by its own power, the seed sprouts and grows until the harvest.[252]"

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Paragraph 568

"Christ's Transfiguration aims at strengthening the apostles' faith in anticipation of his Passion: the ascent on to the "high mountain" prepares for the ascent to Calvary. Christ, Head of the Church, manifests what his Body contains and radiates in the sacraments: "the hope of..."

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"Faith can therefore try to examine the circumstances of Jesus' death, faithfully handed on by the Gospels[316] and illuminated by other historical sources, the better to understand the meaning of the Redemption."

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Paragraph 576

"...the Temple at Jerusalem as the holy place where God's presence dwells in a special way; - faith in the one God whose glory no man can share."

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