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#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church

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To Be God Is to Be

To be me is to be a human being, right? So I'll use Aquinas' language. It's the act of being poured into the receptacle of some essential principle. As God comes close to a creature, he doesn't destroy it or consume it. But the creature becomes more beautiful and more radiant. The basic idea of God is non-competitively transcendent to the world. That's another way to get at it.

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