YOUCAT Question n. 66 - Part III. Was it part of God’s plan for men to suffer and die?
(Youcat answer - repeated) 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 400) The harmony in which they had
found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of
the soul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and
woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust
and domination (Cf. Gen 3:7-16). Harmony with creation is broken: visible
creation has become alien and hostile to man (Cf. Gen 3:17, 19). Because of
man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay" (Rom 8:21).
Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come
true: man will "return to the ground"(Gen 3:19; cf. 2:17), for out of
it he was taken. Death makes its entrance
into human history (Cf. Rom 5:12).
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 384) Revelation makes known to us the
state of original holiness and justice of man and woman before sin: from their
friendship with God flowed the happiness of their existence in paradise.
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