Have you found yourself asking?

[PJM]

=NYTony;7426282]In many cases, men will ignore or rationalize truth in order to continue in their sinful ways. We think that by rationalizing our behaviour we can avoid the guilt and shame that goes along with it. The great Archbishop Sheen wrote this in 1958 in his book “Life of Christ”.

"A fourth distinguishing fact is that He does not fit, as the other world teachers do, into the established category of a good man. Good men do not lie. But if Christ was not all that He said He was, namely, the Son of the living God, the Word of God in the flesh, then He was not just a good man; He was a knave, a liar, a charlatan, and the greatest deceiver who ever lived. If He was not what He said He was, the Christ, the Son of God, He was the anti-Christ! If He was only a man, then He was not even a good man.

But He was not only a man. He would have us either worship Him or despise Him; despise Him as a mere man, or worship Him as true God and true man. That is the alternative He presents. It may very well be that the Communists, who are so anti-Christ, are closer to Him than those who see Him as a sentimentalist and a vague moral reformer. The Communists have at least decided that if He wins, they lose; the others are afraid to consider Him either as winning or losing, because they are not prepared to meet the moral demands which this victory would make on their souls.

If He is what He claimed to be, a Saviour, a Redeemer, then we have a virile Christ and a leader worth following in these terrible times. One who will step into the breach of death, crushing sin, gloom and despair; a leader to Whom we can make totalitarian sacrifice without losing, but gaining freedom, and Whom we can love even unto death. We need a Christ today Who will make cords and drive the buyers and sellers from our new temples; Who will blast the unfruitful fig trees; Who will talk of crosses and sacrifices and Whose voice will be like the voice of the raging sea… But He will not allow us to pick and choose among His words, discarding the hard ones, and accepting the ones that please our fancy. We need a Christ Who will restore moral indignation, Who will make us hate evil with a passionate intensity, and love goodness to a point where we can drink death like water.

Hi TOny, WELCOME TO CAF!

Have you ben reading my second most favorite book… ***Th Life of Christ" by His Excellency AB FUlton Sheen?

GOOD FOR YOU!

I try to read it anually.

I do understands God’s control of hardened harts, closed minds BUt it is the near complet lack of comon sense and logic; that perplex me. ***

God continued blessings.

Thanks fo all the GREAT reply’s!

Pat