the dragon’s lies have been the same since the beginning. Here they are again, I’m trying to explain this as best as I can:
**Analysis of Genesis 3 and Apocalypse 13
“Did God really say…?”**
"You will surely not die!"
Translation: God is a liar, he does not determine the truth, He is NOT the truth. You determine the truth in the order of religion and morals. Therefore, have no regard for what God’s Truth, nor to do His Will. Do you your own will, whatever it may be, and there will be NO consequences, neither temporal nor eternal.
Humanity’s embrace of the lie is seen in Apocalypse 13:
"Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with it?"
This first great lie is the antithesis of Baptism. It utterly undoes one’s innocence before God and renders one a child of the devil if embraced. For this reason, does the Catechumen who stands before the priest to receive the waters of Baptism, go back to the Garden and undo the lies of the serpent. This reveals, through the very sacred liturgy of the Church, the reality that Baptism, or the desire thereof, is necessary for salvation, either explicitly or implicitly, for it is here the first great lie of the dragon is undone…
“Do you reject sin, so as to live in the freedom of the children of God? Do you reject Satan, the Father of lies? And all his empty promises?”
The second lie is contained in the symbolism of the trees of the garden, and especially the forbidden tree.
In effect, the trees symbolize the creation itself in relation to the Divine Purpose and Love.
Partaking of the legitimate trees in the garden is a symbol of RECEIVING, in humble LOVE, the Creation from God and using it according to its Divine Purpose and Order. Behold the Creation is good, for it is a sign of Divine and Spiritual mysteries, it teaches us things of God, and it is a means, through the very physical essence of things, to love God and others. It is meant to be received from God, and offered to one another and back to God in love. This is the supreme meaning of the SACRAMENTALTIY and SIGN of Creation.
Partaking of the forbidden tree, on the other hand, symbolizes a selfish rejection of the Divine Purpose and Love in Creation, GRASPING from God this creation, DIVORCING it from the context of its beautiful order, purpose, love, and mystery, and TAKING it ONLY for its brute superificialities. Further, man, in the second lie, is in effect choosing as his ultimate end the CreaTION instead of His CreaTOR. In other words, the taking of the forbidden fruit symbolizes the total REJECTION of God’s sacramentality in the Creation and of man placing himself “ye shall be as gods”] and the Creation ABOVE the Creator.
Therefore does the CCC corroborate this apocalyptic mystery in the section on the deception of antichrist:
Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist,* a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh*.
So, again, the central sin of the fall is:
first, the rejection of God’s soveriegnty as the arbiter of truth and the truth Himself and the denial of the necessity to obey the Divine Will as well as the consequences of such disobedience,
and secondly, the utterly anti-sacramental rejection of the Creation from God, man raising himself and the creation above the Creator, where man believes he can fulfill himself intrinsically with the CreaTION alone, rather than in eternal covenant with the CreaTOR.
We have seen that the first lie is the utter antithesis to the Baptismal disposition. Therefore,
the first lie is adequately, anti-Baptism.
For the symbolism of the second lie, we have seen that since this very lie is the utter rejection of the SACRAMENTALITY of creation, so this lie should find its best symbol in the debasing mockery of the SUPREME SACRAMENTAL SIGN itself, which is, by JPII’s theology of the body, MARRIAGE. Therefore, just as the just of Salvation History are repeatedly depicted as the SPOUSE or BRIDE of God, called to the supreme gift and reception of self, to love forever in immersion of depth in intellect and will, so the WHORE, that anti-symbol of the chaste Bride, forms the precise sign of the devil’s children, those who do not seek the eternal marriage with God forever in heaven, but choose to “fornicate” superficially with the world, with THIS creation, a creation utterly stripped of its sign of love and mystery, and taken only for its brute, materialistic superficialities. Hence,
the second lie is anti-Marriage.
We have seen that heretics retain only two of the seven sacraments, Baptism and Marriage. The Christ instituted seven sacraments. Tertullian taught that the devil plaigarizes and mocks the good things of God, especially the sacraments. Therefore, why not see the two horns, like a Lamb, of the false prophet, as the dragon’s two primary lies in the fall, the two lies that summarize all sin and iniquity, which are precisely the mockery and debasement of the two sacraments left to heretics, Baptism and Marriage, so as to make them “the ultimate heresy.”
I read the whole thing and I’m still confused because it say’s in Mathew"23:9 no one on earth not just the Jews and I know back before christ Abraham was called father because God told him he would be the father of nations. That was a promise he gave only him. And I call my dad( dad )we can refere to the subject as father but we should not call anyone father Jesus referes also to satan your father the devil,about Judas meaning spiritual relation to him. ???Nancy
Sicse luther was a Catholic priest he took alot of thr knowledge with him,and therefor hr knew the bible ok/ I’m fallikg to sleep i’mgoing to bed Night
Hi Spauline,Good to hear from you how have you been? Say, I was Baptized catholic,and Baptist and I made my first communion and conformation,married, and I dont believe in Mocking God or his People.Your right about this rotton generation of unbelieving vipers. But I do believe the ones who love ,truley love, God knows who they are and he will decide who will go to his kingdom and serve him. People do say Good is Bad and Bad is Good,but I think of Christ and what he told all that believe on and in him"Take my yoke upon you for my yoke is easy and my burdens light,He also said do not let the Sabbath be a burden unto you,I do go into his rest,trust me I do.
You have no idea who the false prophet is or where he will come from,or the Beast.You have a system,doctrines,rules,but if you have not LOVE you are an empty vessel. How many souls have you won for God with your words and Knowledge??CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH page:585 Life in Christ 2435