I was just reading in
www.catholicplanet.com that the church believe in and accepts into their line of traditional turths the Third Testament by Martinis Thomsen (he is dead) but his ‘supposed’ revelation lives on.
It explains that Jesus told him to tell the ‘rest of the story’ since, at the time of Jesus and the Apostles they were not ready to hear the rest…
Thanks,CoboltBlue
“O God the Lord, the Strength of my salvation…” Psalms 140:7
Hi Cobalt Blue, I can see that you a fairly new to this forum and I would like to begin with a hardy welcome and a hope that your stay with us here will by informative as well as pleasurable.
Both post 2 & 3 have given you replies that should let you now that your assumption, about this third testament being approved by the church, is faulty. ON my time here one of the most frustrating & probaly the most amusing things I have read are from new posters that start threads trying to tell us Catholics what we believe about this or don’t know about that.
I would also pray that when you ask questions or try to tell us what the truth is that you open your heart and mind to the answers from some of the more knowlegable catholics who you will no doubt encounter. (I’m not one of them… more knowledgeable that is)
As for the topic of this I will show you what the Cathecism of the Catholic Church states. YOu can then determine whether or not the Church would ever endorse anything like what is described as the “Third Testament.”
Peace:thumbsup:
There will be no further Revelation
66 “The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 28 Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries.
67 **Throughout the ages, there have been so-called “private” revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ’s definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the Magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church. **
Christian faith cannot accept “revelations” that claim to surpass or correct the Revelation of which Christ is the fulfilment, as is the case in certain nonChristian religions and also in certain recent sects which base themselves on such “revelations”.
IN BRIEF
68 By love, God has revealed himself and given himself to man. He has thus provided the definitive, superabundant answer to the questions that man asks himself about the meaning and purpose of his life.
69 God has revealed himself to man by gradually communicating his own mystery in deeds and in words.
70 Beyond the witness to himself that God gives in created things, he manifested himself to our first parents, spoke to them and, after the fall, promised them salvation (cf. Gen 3:15) and offered them his covenant.
71 God made an everlasting covenant with Noah and with all living beings (cf. Gen 9:16). It will remain in force as long as the world lasts.
72 God chose Abraham and made a covenant with him and his descendants. By the covenant God formed his people and revealed his law to them through Moses. Through the prophets, he prepared them to accept the salvation destined for all humanity.
73 God has revealed himself fully by sending his own Son, in whom he has established his covenant for ever. The Son is his Father’s definitive Word; so there will be no further Revelation after him.
