1. SIN defined.
Sin is defined as a disobedience to God’s command. Here we begin to have a problem. Since sin is a disobedience to God’s commands, we have to know all of God’s commands to know whether we have sinned or not. We, also, have to know which God we are talking about and what He really meant when He spoke. We cannot consider all of these now, otherwise we will accomplish nothing.
We have to limit the scope of our topic and work on the assumptions that the Catholic God is the true God and the Catholic Church is His true Church. With such limitations in our topic we can accomplish our limited goal of defining ‘sin’ the Catholic way. We shall discuss the different aspects of sins as defined by different authors to appreciate the different aspects of sin and realize, with great discouragement that everything we do will turn out to be sinful. But isn’t this what St. John said; ‘any one who says that he has no sin is a liar.’ All these different aspects of sin is describing the same thing, sin. It is like looking at the different angles of a diamond. It is the same diamond but different colors.
God the Father had revealed many of His Commands in the Old Testament. God the Son had revealed many of His Commands in the New Testament. And God the Holy Spirit had revealed His commands through the letters of the Apostles and Fathers of the Church and…… to a very few select souls, like St. John of the Cross.
We are not obliged to know the commands of the Holy Spirit because few reach such high level of spirituality. Most of us will just be in the level of the Old Testament commands which are the ‘thou shall nots,’ or the ‘do nots.’
Without knowing the commands of God we cannot know our sins. In knowing the commands of God, there are two things we should know; first what is the command and secondly, how that command must be executed according to God’s mind. This is clear in the Apostolic Commission given by Christ to the Apostles; ‘go to all nations……teaching them to obey ALL my commandments ….and HOW to observe them.
If God commands us to ‘pray’ we cannot pray any way we want. We have to pray in exactly the way He wants us to pray. That is what is referred to as ‘obedience of Faith’. It is obedience to a command we firmly believe comes from God.
2. Sin is disobedience to the commands of God.
Let us take a few obvious commands of God that everybody knows. There is the command for husband to love wives and for wives to obey their husbands (which is an expression of love.) These are God’s command found in St. Paul. We have the command for husbands to love their children as found in the order of whom we should love first, second and third……in the virtue of Charity.
Again, we cannot love any body anyway we want. We have to love husband, wife, and children ‘as God had loved us.’
There is a command to love one’s neighbor and one’s enemies, like mistresses, prostitutes, gays and some bishops. Essentially, The command of Charity demands that we teach them all the commands of God and how to obey them, i.e. to evangelize them. Mistresses are commanded not to tempt husbands, Prostitutes are commanded to find another job. Gays are commanded to be the sex God created them to be. And Bishops are commanded to teach all men the commands of God and not the commands of man even if they are sitting in the chair of St. Peter.
Analysis. Everybody, under the hypnosis of the rights to freedom to do what they want, are doing the desires of their flesh all of which are against the commands of God. And they are led by Pope Francis who dared husbands to go against God’s command by abandoning their wives and children, live with their mistresses or prostitutes and go receive Holy Communion. While at the same time Pope Francis fires good bishops who obey God’s command, like Bishop Livieres and Bishop Altieri while rewarding bishops who are disobedient to God’s commands like Kasper, Daneels, and Maradiaga. For Pope Francis to do what he wants and to do what adulterers, transvestites, gay, homosesuals and bad bishops want are both sins. St. Thomas of Aquinas describes this as love of self which is a sin.
First, we see Pope Francis , many cardinals, bishops and adulterous lay people committing mortal sins since the Bishop’s Synod of 2015. They had been pushing these sinful agenda up to the latest Synod of 2016; it looks like they have sinned and they are continuously sinning and, therefore, have not repented.
Let us go to the second rule mentioned by St. Thomas of Aquinas. This means that all their mortal sins committed during their entire life time had returned to their souls if they are unrepentant (which we suspect since they show ignorance on how to repent). Or if they have properly repented for those sins (which is doubtful ) then all those sins would return to their souls in the form of ingratitude for the forgiveness of past sins.
In short, because Pope Francis and the entire above mentioned group are pushing for an agenda that is against God’s command and, therefore, mortal sins, they are now classified as unrepentant sinners destined for damnation. Why? Because they are in the state of mortal sin having disobeyed a command of God with contempt, as St. Thomas would describe it.
3. The sin of Pope Francis and most of the post Vatican II fathers is akin to the original sin of Adam and Eve. And just as God punished the whole human race that time, God will punish, again, the whole human race today; because the head of the Church is sinning the way the first man sinned. The same story all over again.
Let us look at the concept of sin as an act of disobedience to God’s command; and see how Eve sinned. Adam and Eve were placed in Paradise where all the trees created by God were good. In effect, Adam and Eve could eat of any of the trees in paradise including the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Note the name of the tree; that is moral theology. We all should know good from evil.
Though everything was good in Paradise, Adam and Eve were being tested, just like the angels. All of God’s test are test of obedience. So God gave Adam and Eve a command. Not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eve ate with knowledge and consent and thus disobeyed God. This was original sin, the disobedience to God’s expressed command.
Did you notice that the proposals of Pope Francis and many other Bishops in the Synod of 2015 was precisely for the laymen to disobey the expressed commands of God. They continued to press on these sins during the 2016 Synod and intend to add some more sins in the next Synod. Isn’t the hard hardheartedness and unrepentant souls very obvious? The sins of adultery and contraception are obvious. The more serious sin of scandal is less obvious but this is the more serious sin. This consist in influencing cardinals, bishops and priest to propagate these sins during papal visit specially in strongly Catholic countries like Mexico, Poland and Japan.
This is in line with what St. Thomas wrote; that those with mortal sin will continue to commit more mortal sin and, by nature, will drag other souls with them. So there had been a well orchestrated effort to drag the whole world into the whirlpool of sin. And the whole world seems to be enjoying it.
4. The more serious aspect of sin.
We shall set aside the other aspects of sin that will give us greater understanding of sin. Because this post is already getting too long. So we shall just add one more aspect that will give us a deeper understanding of sin; understanding, first, the sin of Eve and then the sin committed by the men of the Church starting with Pope Francis.
We saw that Eve disobeyed God’s command not to eat of the fruit. We cannot see what is wrong with eating a fruit. But we can see what is wrong in disobeying a command of God given to Eve. What really was that command that disobedience to it was so horrible?
God’s command was this; Eve, you must know what is right from wrong. Everybody must know this. But I will be the one to decide what is right and what is wrong. I am the lawmaker; you just learn from Me. But I will decide what is right from wrong. This is My territory.
Eve didn’t like this. She wanted that she was to decide what is right and wrong. This really was the temptation of the devil. ‘Don’t get instruction from the Old Man. Decide by yourself; get the power to decide what is right and what is wrong.
And Eve found that according to her liking; it was according to her love of self, according to her taste, according to her pride. Besides, this will free God from having to decide for me; so now He can do more important things as I take upon myself this freedom of deciding what is right and wrong.
This is like God giving Eve a car and telling her how to drive because only God knows how to drive this particular car. But the devil tells Eve; ‘hey, if you drive this car you can go wherever you want without asking any permission from God.’ Freedom from God! Independence from God. Just like the Prodigal son. He goes to a far place to freely squander his inheritance. It is always the same story.
The deeper sin of Eve was complete independence to do what she could not do….deciding on morality. This sin was so serious that for this sin God punished the whole world. That was how serious it was.
Since Vatican II, some fathers were clearly guiding the ship of the Catholic Church the way they want and not according to the Will of God. They wanted to be master of the ship to the point of killing the Son of the owner of the vineyard. After Vatican II, they only wanted to dictate how to run the ship and where to direct the ship. But since Pope Francis, they wanted to change the ship because the ship is too old and full of weaknesses. It would not move with the currents of the sea-world. It had to a change.
To change ship is worst than the sin of Eve, who only wanted to change who will give the rules. Eve just wanted a coup d’etat, a change of government so she can dictate what is right and what is wrong. Today, it is to change the Ark of Noah, the Church, totally; from a God made Church to a man-made Church led by the men of the School of Bologna. That is what Pope Francis and the Curia want to do, together with a host of cardinals and bishops. And all the changes in the hierarchy and new appointments in the Vatican and the whole Catholic world are meant to accomplish this goal of not only running the Church the way the men of the Church wants to. The goal is to completely change the Church from a Divine institution to a new man-made Protestant sect. Every Bishop’s Synod shows the footprint of the dragon, mentioned by Pope Leo XIII in his longer prayer to St. Michael.
As we walk around the ship we begin to wonder; adultery is now allowed, this was not the rule in paradise. Adulterous couples receiving Holy Communion, this is neither the rule. Gay welcome in Paradise, this is imaginable. And as we read more and more declarations from the Vatican, we begin to realize; why, this is not the same ship. This is not the same Church. This Church does ot have any visible signs mentioned in the Nicene Creed and expounded by St. Robert Bellarmine. The visible signs are I see are just the exact opposite of what St. Bellarmine wrote.
What do you do when you see that the boat you boarded to bring you to eternal life in heaven does not have the same instructions and signs that you expect. And that the boat does not have the logo that your catechism had taught you as the visible sign of the true Church. How about jumping ship?
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