Monday,
1/14/13
Our first
reading tells us something about the relationship between God the Father and
God the Son. It says that the Son is “the imprint of” the Father’s being.
We have
something similar in Chapter One of the Letter to the Colossians where St. Paul
wrote, “He is the image of the invisible God.”
St. Thomas Aquinas tried picturing how
the Son could be “the imprint of the Father’s being,” and “the image of the
invisible God.”
This is
something like his explanation. As an intelligent being God had to be thinking.
And, since before he created anything, the only object he could picture was
himself. And, being unlimited in his mental powers, he had a mental picture of
himself that was a complete copy of himself. It was his brainchild. And, since
love is the necessary attraction to what is good, the Father loved his
brainchild.
The next step
in Aquinas’s theorizing took the mutual love of Father and Son as never
changing. It became a person in its own right.
Of course my
account of Aquinas’s great reasoning is pretty weak, but we all must do our
best at understanding the Scriptures.
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