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What is wrong with the World?

What is wrong with the World?

"Remember Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day to save us all from Satan's pow'r when we were gone astray. Oh tidings of comfort and joy"

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Christians believe that "the world has been established and kept in being by the Creator's love; has fallen into slavery to sin but has been set free by Christ, crucified and risen to break the power of the evil one. . ." (GS 2 § 2, CCC 421).

What is wrong with the world? Whether or not you can relate it immediately to a theological perspective. One can see it first with clarity regarding oneself, and then one begins to look around and notice that sin is not just bad because it is just missing something, next to what it should be, or because God says it is (as real and relevant as each of these are). It is bad because it creates a poverty of that which is not replaceable for man and its restoration is only possible through a lifetime of bitter redemption and healing and even then, not until the consummation of the ages.

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