THE POPE’S BOOK: "HISTORY CANNOT BE RULED LEAVING GOD OUT OF THE PICTURE"

” “"One cannot rule history with mere material structures, leaving God out of the picture". This was written by the Pope in his new book, "Jesus of Nazareth", in which he lingers on several occasions on the subject of "God’s primacy". "This means recognising Him as a reality, a reality without which nothing else can be good", he writes for instance in the second chapter, about Jesus’ temptations: "If man’s heart is not good, then nothing else can become good", warns the Pope, according to whom "we live in this world in which God has not the evidence of something can be felt with one’s hands, but He can be looked for and found only through the surge of one’s heart". This is why "we must oppose to the delusions of false philosophies and recognise that man cannot live on bread alone but above all on obeying God’s Word. And only where this obedience is experienced can those feelings grow which enable one to feed bread to everyone else as well".” “