Why,
then, was it necessary for Christ to die on the
Cross — if “any religion” suffices to
bring man to God, offers salvation, and ultimately leads
men to Heaven?
The answer to this question had apparently
been peripheral to the “Council Fathers” and the answer
to it still eludes the sophistic casuistry of
Catholic and Protestant theologians alike, as it had
in their collaborative construction of the Council and
the spurious documents that emerged from it.
At first the heresy of ecumenism was confined to nominally
“Christian denominations” — but as the many ineluctable
contradictions unfolded, it increasingly and necessarily
moved beyond Christianity to encompass all religions
— and no religion at all.
Let us be as forthright as possible: why —
for what possible reason — was it necessary for
Jesus Christ to suffer and die on the Cross … if —
if — there was another way, another
religion, in fact any religion that suffices
(including that of the Canaanite god Moloch who required
child sacrifice, and the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli —
who also required human sacrifice), to say nothing of
the Trimurti of the Hindus, Allah of the Muslims, Mormonism,
Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Gnosticism, etc. or, in fact,
no religion at all as Francis’s argument
implies?
“THE ‘god’ OF SURPRISES?”
Absurdity
may, in fact, be a prerogative of Francis’s
fabricated “god of surprises” — but it is
not the same God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob;
not the God revealed in His Incarnate Son, and certainly
not the God worshipped in the Catholic Church.
If it was not necessary
for Christ to die on the Cross
to redeem man from his sins and so open
Heaven to men — then His immolation on Calvary was purely
gratuitous — He suffered
and died needlessly —
God the Father capriciously and wantonly crucified His
Only-Begotten Son. The Crucifixion was pointless, and
the agony of His Mother of no consequence. This is the
necessary conclusion to the spurious attempt to both
initiate and implement all that is inherently irreconcilable
in the disastrous project of “ecumenism”. Any
other religion would have been sufficient without
Christ and the Cross!
As a postscript I suggest that you not attempt to use
the “ut
unum sint” (“that
they may be one” ) citation from Holy Scripture. There
are too many citations to the contrary. Christ was clearly
speaking of His Apostles:
“And now I am
not in the world, and these are in the world,
and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in
Thy name whom Thou has given me; that they may
be one, as We also are. While I was
with them, I kept them in Thy name.
Those whom Thou gavest me have I kept;
and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition,
that the scripture may be fulfilled.”
(Saint John 17.11-12)
If you argue that the
revelation of God is a gradually evolving
and on-going process, a continual “up-dating” of His
most holy will so that He, Who created the world,
can keep pace with the times and man’s “evolving consciousness”—
then Jesus is not the final Word of God after all:
“God, after He
spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets
in many portions and in many ways, in these
last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom
He appointed heir of all things, through whom
also He made the world.”
(Hebrews 1.1-2)
The
revelation of God was completed in His Son, and ended
upon the death of the last Apostle, Saint John.
This is long-established Catholic Doctrine.
But now, we are to believe, God is going to
speak through Francis and abolish this doctrine
by revealing that Christianity (Catholicism) is
not the only way to the Father
despite what Christ Himself said:
“I
am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man
cometh to the Father, but by me.”
(Saint John 14.6)
Francis’s
proclamation — without precedent in Catholic history
— is nothing less than a betrayal of Christ, the Teachings
of Christ’s Church, the Sacred Deposit of Faith and
is a grievous wound in our Holy Mother the Church whom
he has also betrayed. It is heresy.
And if
this is not heresy (specifically the heresy of
Indifferentism) then nothing qualifies
for the definition.
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https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/pope-to-teen-girl-proselytism-is-the-strongest-poison-against-the-ecumenica
Geoffrey
K. Mondello
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal