The Epistle to the Ephesians teaches us: "Therefore be imitators of God", Ephesians 5: 1. The spiritual gifts or charisms are perfections. Even though they are perfections, these perfections can be grouped into degrees of spiritual perfection, as Thomas Aquinas teaches in the Summa Theologica. Thomas Aquinas makes a distinction in gifts of the will: gift of the fear of…

The ethics consist in the study of good and evil, and the Apostle Paul make a reference to ethics in terms of how to choose: All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify. 1 Corinthians 10:23-24.We can see a similar assertion in Ecclesiastes 15:14: "God created man from the…

The Epistle of the Apostle James resembles the Sapiential Books of the Old Testament and like these emphasizes the need for wisdom, the mother of all sciences. The Word of God is the wisdom that comes from above (James 3:17). In James 3 the apostle tells us about the false and the true wisdom and describes the characteristics of divine…

The passage in the letter to the Romans 12: 2: "Be transformed by the renewal of your mind", is basically referring to the "new leaven", the "leaven of wisdom", remember the Parable of the Leaven, Luke 13:21 . There is an "old" leaven and a "new" leaven There are basically two types of mentalities, ways of thinking, the clearest example…