YOUCAT Question n. 66 - Part I. Was it part of God’s plan for men to suffer and die?
(Youcat answer) God does not want men to
suffer and die. God’s original idea for man was paradise: life forever and
peace between God and man and their environment, between man and woman.
A
deepening through CCC
(CCC 374) The first man was not only
created good, but was also established in friendship with his Creator and in
harmony with himself and with the creation around him, in a state that would be
surpassed only by the glory of the new creation in Christ. (CCC 375 The Church,
interpreting the symbolism of biblical language in an authentic way, in the
light of the New Testament and Tradition, teaches that our first parents, Adam
and Eve, were constituted in an original "state of holiness and
justice" (Cf. Council of Trent (1546): DS 1511). This grace of original
holiness was "to share in… divine life" (Cf. LG 2).
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment)
Often we sense how life ought to be, how
we ought to be, but in fact we do not live in peace with ourselves, act out of
fear and uncontrolled emotions, and have lost the original harmony that man had
with the world and ultimately with God. In Sacred Scripture the experience of
this alienation is expressed in the story of the Fall. Because sin crept in,
Adam and Eve had to leave paradise, in which they were in harmony with each
other and with God. The toil of work, suffering, mortality, and the temptation
to sin are signs of this loss of paradise.
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 376) By the radiance of this grace all
dimensions of man's life were confirmed. As long as he remained in the divine
intimacy, man would not have to suffer or die (Cf. Gen 2:17; 3:16, 19). The
inner harmony of the human person, the harmony between man and woman (Cf. Gen
2:25), and finally the harmony between the first couple and all creation,
comprised the state called "original justice".
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