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If you are willing to test God by taking a breathalyser test after the Communion,do so. I hope and pray that you will see the light and understand that there are things we do not need to know or understand. All we need is faith,and God will provide that one. Every day is a miracle if you open your eyes and look around.
You call it testing God. I call it curiosity. You are right that we do not need to know or understand many things. That illustrates the problem right there. People think they must know and understand, and that others should “know” and “understand” to the extent the others agree. If knowing and understanding were required for salvation, the Church wouldn’t have made the first 100 years, as back then nearly all the people were illiterate.
What’s even funnier is that once a person becomes wise and learned, their ego thinks the Spirit can only get to them through their conscious mind, I guess, because they only hear those promptings by the Spirit that make sense to them. But the Spirit does not need to work in somebody whose mind assumes control. So they become cripples, the religious equivalent to Stephen Hawking. They can say things that are technically pure, but they are sterile because they don’t understand what they think they understand, because satan has apparently convinced them, like he did Adam, that with enough understanding we can calculate how the world should be and how to make it that way. They think because they know CCC this and encyclical that and hocus pokus about the other, they somehow have knowledge of the kingdom of heaven while people like you and me who don’t claim to be scholars do not. This is the Big Lie, but it has played a major role in preserving the Church and the Good News for 2000 years. After all, if the lie were ever discovered by the intellectuals, the Church as we know it, her work being done, would disintegrate. At that point, there will no longer need to be hospitals for sinners because there soon won’t be any more sinners. The lion will lay down with the lamb, and all that.
Matt 11:25
At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children."
It’s absolutely amazing how scholars can write volumes about this scripture but still have no clue what it means in everyday life, or even what it could mean to them.
But with overwhelming statistical probability, that will never happen because of the nature of Truth, until Jesus comes again.
As it is, I admire those people for their knowledge, but I pity them for their loss.
It’s almost embarrassing to see how some of them react to the simplest of truths. Like “do not judge.” What’s so hard about that, yet I’ve gone around and around in numerous threads with academics who know 10 books for every paragraph of Church teachings I know who have wonderfully elaborate explanations that result in reversing Jesus’s words to mean, “you have a solemn obligation, as a Catholic, to make judgments.” Or the simpler version which is even more deadly because of its ability to be spread from one host mind to another, “judge the sinner, not the sin.” Another thing to watch for is the word “accountability.” This is one of satan’s favorite words to bring up at Church leadership meetings, and if you think it through with enough honesty you will realize is it effectively a code word often used for “we have no intention of accepting Christ or the gifts He gave us, and we will do what we can to make sure nobody else gets them, either.” I know this because I’ve seen it; when I was at a parish council meeting once, I asked if it wouldn’t make sense, since we’re in the business of bringing Jesus to people, to consult what Jesus taught us in terms of how we should do things. The whole notion was rejected out of hand as the loudest person in the room shot me down with, "weeellll, I’m not a very religious guy but it seems to me when you have to deal with those kinds of people we need to … " and then went on to reiterate the same plan which still was 180 degrees opposite the actual diocesan policy we claimed to be following. To be misinformed about Christ was excusable. But in a parish leadership meeting, to openly reject the whole notion of taking Christ into consideration, is one of the most amazing things I’d ever seen.
But take heart:
1 Cor 1
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and
not with the wisdom of human eloquence, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its meaning.
18 The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the learning of the learned I will set aside.”
20 Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish?
21 For since in the wisdom of God the world did not come to know God through wisdom, it was the will of God through the foolishness of the proclamation to save those who have faith.
22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
23 but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,
24 but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
Peace and joy,
Alan
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