434-213,41, 357- God is without origin and without end-Catechism study-led by Thomas Paul & Team
Channel: My Helper The Holy Spirit
Date: 2022-03-21

CCC 213 The revelation of the ineffable name "I AM WHO AM" contains then the truth that God alone IS. The Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, and following it the Church's Tradition, understood the divine name in this sense: God is the fullness of Being and of every perfection, without origin and without end. All creatures receive all that they are and have from him; but he alone ​is his very being, and he is of himself everything that he is.

CCC 41 All creatures bear a certain resemblance to God, most especially man, created in the image and likeness of God. The manifold perfections of creatures - their truth, their goodness, their beauty all reflect the infinite perfection of God. Consequently we can name God by taking his creatures" perfections as our starting point, "for from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator".15

CCC 357 Being in the image of God the human individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is not just something, but someone. He is capable of self-knowledge, of self-possession and of freely giving ​himself and entering into communion with other persons. 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.