The Holy Trinity in the
Economy of Salvation
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Love and Sin
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church [number of paragraph is included]

The catechism says that [1846] the Gospel is the revelation in Christ, of the merciful love of God toward people who have committed sins (cf Lk 15). The Gospel of Matthew, for example, narrates the Last Supper, a scene that describes Jesus dining with his disciples. In the room, looking at a glass of wine Jesus said, 'This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins "(Mt 26, 28).

[1847] "God created us without us, but he did not save us without us" (St. Augustine, Serm. 169, 11, 13). The accommodation of his love calls us the confession of our faults. 'If we say:' we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness "(1 Jn 1.8 to 9).

[1848] as St Paul says, "where sin increased, grace '(Rom 5, 20). But to do its work grace must uncover sin so as to convert our hearts and bestow 'righteousness to eternal life through the Son of God"(Rom 5, 20-21). As a doctor who discovered the wound before treating it, God through his word and his Spirit, casts a bright light on sin:

The conversion requires the recognition of sin, and he, being a proof of the Spirit of truth in man's inmost being, becomes at the same time a new beginning for the gift of grace: "Receive the Holy Spirit. " So in this "convincing concerning sin" we discover a "double gift ": the gift of the truth of conscience and the gift of the certainty of have been forgiven. The Spirit of truth is the Paraclete. (DeV 31).