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Such is not the case for Simon Peter when he confesses Jesus as “the
Christ, the Son of the living God”, for Jesus responds solemnly:
“Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in
heaven.”46 Similarly Paul will write, regarding his conversion on
the road to Damascus, “When he who had set me apart before I was born, and
had called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order
that I might preach him among the Gentiles…”47 “and in the
synagogues immediately [Paul] proclaimed Jesus, saying, ‘He is the Son of
God.'”48 From the beginning this acknowledgment of Christ’s divine
sonship will be the centre of the apostolic faith, first professed by Peter as
the Church’s foundation.49
- SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
- ARTICLE 2 “AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD”
- III. The Only Son of God
- ARTICLE 2 “AND IN JESUS CHRIST, HIS ONLY SON, OUR LORD”
- CHAPTER TWO I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
Original Link: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1G.HTM