A soldier called me up today, "So you've got these pseudepigrapha, (he's become all exegete) how can we tell what's real in the Biblical text?" Resisting the temptation to dam his impudence I answered honestly, "You see, son, what happened was a lot of German atheists got together in the nineteenth century and tried to show us the Bible wasn't true, because its text comes from different sources."
As in, "Oh my, I can't believe in Christianity because Matthew borrowed from Mark! My faith is ruined and now I must become a Marxist and celebrate trans weddings!" Pathetic. I told the boy, "Hold fire, the people who set the canon of scripture knew the people who knew the people who witnessed the acts therein. It has apostolic and therefore Christ's authority."
He liked this and to be sure, it's a good apologetic, but of course we've moved on. No one's arguing about the veracity of Christ and his message of salvation, not least the various Churches. On the contrary, they just ignore it and all in the name of The Science and, obviously, cash. Look at them.
A whirling cesspool of demonic corruption in the heart of our nation's governance. Out demons out? And then some, but we know the outcome. Whether this includes the ancient if rapidly declining Church of England is another matter again.
Your Pal,
LSP
Good teaching moment.
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The simple answer, of course, is that by reading the Scriptures with a goodly heart and head, one will see the real words and meanings underneath all the satanic and marxist (aren't they the same?) coverings and interpretations.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, you 'feel' the correctness. Pick up 10 different bibles of various styles, Catholic, Jewish (Old Testament only, of course,) Anglican, New American, Good News, various Orthodox versions, and compare. The real Word is there. Just often hidden and changed by those who wished and wish to obfuscate.
But... it requires an open heart and soul, a brain searching for the truth, to see.
And... the reader HAS to be serious about it.
It's why those who convert or renew during a Crisis of Faith often see things much clearer than 'normal' people who have never opened their hearts, heads or souls and just go along...
What LindaG said. Good teaching moment. Hope more become open and receptive to The Good Word before it's too late.
X2 Beans
ReplyDeletePaul wrote more letters than are contained in the canon. The same is true of apostolic writings. It doesn't make the canon more or less true.
Was at The Remnant's Catholic Identity Conference this past weekend with the wife. Primary focus was on the SOS / WTF going on Rome this month. Key points- know the truth, make use of the sacraments and let your little gospel light shine. PF and his cronies will do their best to water down the Faith but it'll all come to naught.
ReplyDeleteI read the back of the book. Spoiler alert. They lose. Oooopsie!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Linda. He's become very interested in learning the Faith, which is a very good thing. And especially good with a biblical emphasis, imo.
ReplyDeleteTotally with you, Beans. Let's add an "informed conscience."
ReplyDeleteThat said, these apostates who hold themselves up as Christian bishops and theologians in the West... you'd think they'd feel the dissonance and this, at least, would drive them to repentance. But no, they double down.
Paul says, to the Thessalonians I think, that God will fill them with powerful "delusion" to confirm, I think that's the right interpretation, their wickedness. Terrifying.
In the meanwhile, we stand firm.
Precisely, LL.
ReplyDeleteThere was an awful lot of germanic ink spilled on this a 100 or so years ago. My advice to the kid was "go to the early Church Fathers and their exegesis and you'll get the real deal."
He got that.
Right on, DOS.
ReplyDeleteHey, Do. Not. Surrender.
Preaching to myself, of course.
Vaguely on topic -- it's ridiculous and sad that my crew aren't in sacramental communion with yours, not least because we believe the same thing and, ahem, use the same books and on.
I know why it hasn't happened, but what a great evil that it hasn't. Ut unum sint is most definitely an imperative. Well, I'll stop the homily here, but you know what I mean.
I think, Wild, that Satan's actions are like the defeated Fuhrer's scorched earth policy, something like that. But how does it play out in timeless eternity? The victory's already there and the Enemy's in the Lake of Fire.
ReplyDeleteOurselves? Playing it out in time in "fear and trembling" but the end is assured.
Very good point and yeah, I know what you mean. Michael Matt's thing is "Unite the Clans!" Any groups- yours, Orthodox, RC Novus Ordo, TLM, SSPX, FSSP, ICK - all who are against the modernist heresy need to drop the differences and stand together.
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