By quicksandala, 2015, MOrgueFile.com
Science tells us that humans appeared on Earth over 200,000 years ago. Can you imagine how many human beings have come and gone in that time?
The older we get, the more we hear it: Life is Short.
And of course, it is. So, why do we think we’re so important when we’re ‘here today and gone tomorrow?’
Who are we anyway?? And why should anyone care whether we’re here or not?
Karl Rahner (March 5, 1904 – March 30, 1984), was a German Jesuit priest and theologian, is considered one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century. According to Rahner, all things in the world come from the one same origin, God; so there is “an inner similarity and commonality,” most clearly disclosed in a human being. A person is the unity of spirit and matter, and only in a human person can spirit and matter can be experienced in their real essence and in their unity. That spirit represents the unique mode of existence of a single person–when a person makes himself accessible to it. And it is always oriented towards the incomprehensible Mystery called God.
In other words, we are here because of God–and for God.
And what would he have us do?
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” –Matthew 22:36-40
Translating a World on the Edge 