This chapter focused on two major subjects. It focused on arguments for the existence of God as well as the humanity of Jesus. We learned that the major arguments for the existence of God can be put into two categories--through the natural world and through the human person. In total we read and discussed eight arguments for the existence of God including William Paley’s “The Watch and the Watchmaker”, which argues from the point of view that the world is organized and has order and everything that has order and purpose has to have a creator, and the simple fact that no matter what we do we always feel some emptiness in us, which makes it seem plausible that the only thing to fill that emptiness is God. The other main subject was Jesus Humanity. We learned about what Jesus, as a human, can teach us about humility and faith.

1: One thing I definitely would like to remember is to focus on Jesus humanity. Often times, I focus on Jesus divinity, which is fine, but I forget an essential part of Jesus. When focused on Jesus’ humanity can teach us a lot about faith and how to truly live as a human being.

2: The golden ratio is something I would like to remember. It’s a very interesting thing that one number is found throughout the nature. After reading about the golden ratio I looked it up and found out how it was “implanted” in nature. The ratio of male bees to female bees in a bee hive is almost always equal to the golden ratio. Likewise the ratio of number of seeds in a sunflower to pedals on a sunflower are equal to the golden ratio. Although this may not convince someone there is a God it is definitely a good argument for order in the world.

3: I’d like to remember that the church says conscience is the most important morale code we have. In the Catholic Catechism the church openly says that every Catholic should follow their conscience if they truly believe in it, even if they have to go against church teachings and the church. I really like that the church says this because too often I think of the Catholic Church as an extremely strict organization which isn’t very appealing to me and this teaching makes me think again about that.

I don’t know exactly what I believe about Jesus at the moment. I’m struggling with the idea of him being God. Although I am not certain about what I believe his divinity, I am pretty certain that he is the greatest moral teacher in history. His teachings were and still are radical and extremely idealistic but to me they make a lot of sense. So although I don’t know if I agree with the claims that he is God I definitely would like to consider myself one of his followers.