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careful study and induction.
That Genesis in the Holy Scriptures affirms that man is made in the image of God, and that from this, man can deduce by reason that his senses of perception, including his rational faculties, are also made in God’s image, and both faculties combined, being God given, are efficient faculties capable of perceiving the greatness of God’s creation. For why would our benevolent Creator have endowed man with the riches of both faculties of perception and reason, but for man not only to discern good from evil, but to also experience His munificent creation and the world and his surroundings in their fullness and to their fullest in both macrocosm and microcosm, so that man may discover and reveal the greatness of His works, which is the mirror of His Most Perfect Divine Will and Mind? Man, above all creatures, is privileged to observe and perceive and rationalize the world around him and observe the wondrous heavens and the glorious earth created by God, and in so doing, He takes part in God’s most perfect mind. Thus man, in all his magnitude 3⁄4 in so far as his eyes can see and all his senses perceive, and as far as he can devise instruments to aid him see deeper into God’s wondrous and mysterious reality, and as far as his mind can comprehend and analyze what he carefully observes, and induce and deduce through God’s gift of reason, and of logic, as best as he can, and to the best of his abilities, being mindful and diligent of the very things he observes and tests, and relying also on new knowledge 3⁄4 participates not only in God’s glory, but also in the glory of God’s munificent creation, which is nothing but His reality mirrored in both macrocosm and microcosm, where man is able to blissfully partake in all things through his mind and his sense perceptions, being mindful that, as deduced from what the Holy Scriptures inscribe, all of man’s faculties, rational and sensory, are made in God’s divine image, and hence, partake in God’s divine mind, and ought not to be scorned neither by man nor Holy Council. For what reality man observes and what he induces and deduces from it, is always unfolding, for truth is always revealing itself little by little, and thus, man, in each new astonishing discovery, praises not only his own abilities, his own God-given sensory and rational faculties, but man also praises the greatness of His Creator and the greatness of God’s mind, when he observes the beauty of the mystery of God’s divine reality, and when he reveals his findings to the world through coherent and systematic observation, testing and rational deduction.
That each new discovery and the spirit of inquiry into God’s divine reality ought not be censored, but discussed and argued openly, amiable, respectfully, for man indeed is liable to err, but by trial and error, man has advanced in knowledge and has fruitfully brought to bear upon mankind’s knowledge God’s wondrous designs with the same liberty endowed to man by His Creator. And foremost, that man has a duty to his Maker to use the wondrous faculties He generously bestowed upon man, as limited as they may seem to man, but that man must employ his sensory and rational faculties for the study of His wondrous Creation, this of the worthiest pursuit. And that as men of reason, men ought not dismiss the evidence of the senses for those of reason, for that would be equal to crippling man, for just as many prophets believed and wrote based on visions and on sensory perceptions, and used reason to express themselves, and just as through a vision man learnt of Jesus as the son of God, and just as through a vision of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Book of Acts, Apostle Paul not only converted, but also went on to courageously predicate the new tidings of justification by faith and the redemption of sins through our Saviour, our Lord, Jesus Christ based on his vision and on revelations and principles he had deduced from it, teaching these and many other wondrous things to believers and disbelievers alike, including disbelieving Athenians in the Areopagus, Saint Paul went on to valiantly spread these new truths for he knew, even against much rejection and antipathy from the Jews, that these were fundamental universal truths, which in time, became the very pillars, the very solid rock and foundation upon which now the truth of the Holy Catholic Church rests. For just as Christianity and the Catholic Church is founded on Christ’s truth and on the vision of Saint Paul and of many, so is science founded
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