Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog

To add to my previous discussion, the Father realizes His own perfection in the begetting of the Son and comes to love it in the procession of the Spirit. It seems to me that God’s loving Himself is unforced. He beholds something infinitely perfect, namely Himself, and falls in love with it naturally. But He [...]

I want to throw it out as a possibility that in heaven the blessed do not make choices, because there is only one good, namely, God Himself, and He perfectly satisfies every desire. The saints are not capable of not choosing God, because they are “closed up”; they are confirmed in goodness. We might also [...]

The Protestant doctrine of justification by faith alone is, in my view, incomplete, yet the Catholic doctrine of justification by grace and works is defended poorly. For example, the Catholic Encyclopedia argues: In the Protestant system, however, remission of sin is no real forgiveness, no blotting out of guilt. Sin is merely cloaked and concealed [...]