Paragraph 6. MAN
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The “mastery” over the world that God offered man from the beginning
was realized above all within man himself: mastery of self. the first man was
unimpaired and ordered in his whole being because he was free from the triple
concupiscence254 that subjugates him to the pleasures of the senses,
covetousness for earthly goods, and self-assertion, contrary to the dictates of
reason.
- SECTION TWO I. THE CREEDS
- CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER
- Article 1 “I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH”
- Paragraph 6. MAN
- Article 1 “I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH”
- CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team
Original Link: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1B.HTM