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Lumen Fidei - Day 4 - June 12, 2014

“On the basis of an individualistic and narrow conception of knowledge one cannot appreciate the significance of mediation”. I thought this was an interesting thought. What I took from it is the people want to do it on their own, people are individualistic. We need a mediator; God has shown that He wants us to have a mediator. Relying on a mediator takes faith, takes acceptance and obedience. I find there is a disconnect when you look at a belief in Christ but not religion (look at the non-religion movement) and how individualistic that is, but they appear to argue that all they need is their faith. The two, it appears to Pope Francis, are intertwined. The people’s faith in God relied totally on their mediation with Moses.

I have never thought about the Old Testament heroes having Faith in Christ to come. You wonder if any of them, or many of them, received visions of what was going to happen. If Moses, 2000 years before Christ, was told that the Son of God would come down, take on human form, die for our sins, and rise again, and his Faith was built on that, I feel I can relate more to him. That is no different than what my faith is based on. I believe that those things have happened, but I was not there and didn’t see them. They have been revealed to me, mainly though the Word of God, the same Word spoken to Moses on the mountain. Moses and my faith are built on the same foundation of Christ, only one is looking ahead and one behind.

I think it is worth reflecting about God just being in some other realm, perhaps setting things in motion but not being able to interact with us. That is simply not the all powerful God we confess to believe in. If you believe God cannot interact in the world, you simply do not believe in the Christian God. It is very similar to what St. Paul says about Christ death. If you don’t believe He rose, then your belief is really meaningless. Christ rising is essential to Christian belief and that requires a God that can interact with the world. Faith pushes us in that direction, but it must be understood that God is Truth and Faith must be complete. There are so many (Catholics included and probably more so) that want to pick and choose which Christ they want to follow or what teaching they want to believe. That is the world, that is individualistic, that is not what Israel got from their mediator; it is not we received from The Mediator. One Christ, One Church, One Truth, that is what we were given, that is what the Light of Faith leads us to and what the world works to destroy.