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make, was achieved…by Christ, the God-man.” 108 God is revealed through His Son. Faith in
God moves man to seek Him who is revealed through faith, “in revealing the mystery of the
Father and his love fully reveals man to himself and makes clear his supreme calling, which is to
share in the divine mystery of the life of the Trinity” (FR, n.13). To deny the humanity and
divinity of the Son is to deny the Father. The Church teaches God’s people that they can reason
that “revelation remains charged with mystery…Jesus, with his entire life, revealed the
countenance of the Father, for he came to teach the secret things of God. But our vision of the
face of God is always fragmentary and impaired by the limits of our understanding. Faith alone
makes it possible to penetrate the mystery in a way that allows us to understand it coherently”
(FR, n.13).
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Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, What it Means to be a Christian, trans. Henry Taylor, (San Francisco: Ignatius Press,
2006), 32.