Benedict XVI (former Nazi) praying to God at Auschwitz, Poland on May 28, 2006:
"Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate this?"
THE VATICAN STRATEGY: when in doubt, blame God for all the misfortunes in the world.
But then again, wasn't it the Vatican (remember Pius XII), that remained silent during the holocaust?
To Benedict: if you would have thought for a second, you would realize that man has free will, and that God did not really remain silent. That is because America and its allies listened to God whose spirit spoke to their hearts and souls. They responded, and their duty to God, caused countless numbers to die floating in the waters off Normandy, while others were cut to pieces on the beach, while still others climbed the cliffs, and finally succeeded in ridding the world of those beasts in whose army you served.
While you still have time, follow the one true God, and repeat the following often:
"Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam. Et secundum multitudinem miserationem tuaraum, dele inequitatem meam. Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea, et a peccato meo munda me. Quoniam iniquitatem meam ego cognosco, et peccatum meum contra me est semper."
Because I'm a nice guy, I will finish this in your behalf, because I know God hears me, as I know if you are sincere, He will hear you.
URBIS ET ORBIS & FIRST ENCYCLICAL
(A response)
In the Vatican's Urbis et Orbis message on the 25th of December 2005, the pope proclaims that:
"The modern age is often seen as an awakening of reason from its slumbers, humanity's enlightenment after an age of darkness, yet without the light of Christ, the light of reason is not sufficient to enlighten humanity and the world."
The light of reason is God's gift to humanity and is more than sufficient for each person to know Him. Christians the world over are using their wonderful gift of reason trying to understand how God can be one person and three persons at the same time. Here is just one part of the Athanasian Creed that is false and blasphemous:
3. Now the Catholic Faith is this: that we worship the one God as a Trinity; and the Trinity as an Unity.
4. Neither confusing the Persons, nor dividing the Substance.
5. For there is a Person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Ghost.
6. But the Godhead of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Ghost is one, their glory equal, their majesty co-eternal.
7. Such as the Father is, such is the Son; and such is the Holy Ghost.
8. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, the Holy Ghost uncreated.
9. The Father infinite, the Son infinite, the Holy Ghost infinite.
10. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, the Holy Ghost eternal.
11. And yet they are not three Eternals, but one Eternal.
Please notice articles 5 and 6 above wherein it states there are THREE named persons in the godhead, not one. Yet in article 1, it states "we worship the one God as a Trinity; and the Trinity as an Unity."
Three distinct persons are not "an Unity". God is indivisible and not composed of parts. Even their so-called renowned theologian, Thomas Aquinas, agrees there is no composition in God, that God is unity, meaning that God is simple and indivisible. He wrote in Question 3, article 7 of his Summa Theologica:
"Therefore, it is clear that God is in no way composite, but is altogether simple. Secondly, because every composite is posterior to its component parts, and is dependent on them; but God is the first being, as has been shown above. Thirdly, because every composite has a cause, for things in themselves diverse cannot unite unless something causes them to unite. But God is uncaused, as has been shown above, since He is the first efficient cause. Fourthly, because in every composite there must be potentiality and actuality (this does not apply to God) for either one of the parts actualizes another, or at least all the parts are as it were in potency with respect to the whole. Fifthly, because nothing composite can be predicated of any one of its parts. And this is evident in a whole made up of dissimilar parts; for no part of a man is a man, nor any of the parts of a foot, a foot."
God's light of reason, therefore, tells us that if God were composed of three persons, then according to Aquinas, neither of these persons are God because "in every composite there must be potentiality and actuality (this does not apply to God)", and therefore, the trinity is a theological concoction invented, not by honest theologians, but by myth makers who have no regard for the spiritual welfare of those who seek the one true God.
And so, they attempt to divide God into three persons, and then with a straight face, ask their followers to bend and twist their precious gift of reason so they can accept the myth that has been perpetuated for 2000 years, that God is three persons (a composite), and not one simple and indivisible person.
The blasphemy continues by ignoring theological truths, namely, that only one person can be uncreated, that only one person can be infinite, and that only one person can be eternal. Once the lie was given, that Christ was God, it then became necessary to give reasons as to how two persons could be God (an impossibility). Many years later, they added another person who supposedly was equal to God, and they added more "theology" to support how three persons could be God (another impossibility). Since they claimed that all persons of the trinity were uncreated, it did not cause them any concern when they had to account for the fact that Christ was created - by Mary.
That created a dilemma because it made Mary the mother of Christ, who they claimed was also God, so they simply announced that she was "the mother of God". No one has bothered to question the fact that if Mary was the mother of God, then Mary's parents were God's grandparents, and so forth and so on. Never mind that, according to their doctrine, God would never have been born if Mary refused to give birth to God, or having given birth to God, it meant God was created, and would therefore be, not God, but someone others claimed to be God, since God is uncreated. These are just a very few of the absurdities in the Athanasian creed, and there are countless others that resulted from the initial lie.
If the pope really loved God and the message Christ tried to deliver, he would feed God's sheep only those doctrines that can withstand God's light of reason. Instead he is confusing God's sheep by asking them to disregard God's precious gift of reason, and to accept the nonsensical doctrines that are both false and blasphemous. I don't expect the pope to recant these blasphemous doctrines, because as they say in politics, "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". And there's a saying I hope I shall never forget, but I'm afraid too many have forgotten, including the pope: "Vanitas vanitatis et omnia sunt vanitates."
Response to Benedict XVI's First Encyclical
A pope giving lectures on eros or physical love is like a blind man giving lectures on paintings. Before he can lecture the world on their sins, he should lecture his cardinals, bishops and priests regarding theirs, esp. pedophilia:
MT 18:6 "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."
"MT 7:3 Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?"
No Christian who professes a belief in the false and blasphemous trinity doctrine, including the pope, can be considered a theologian, since a theologian is one who studies God - not scriptures. A person who truly studies God, can only conclude that God is One Person, not three, and that God is innascent, infinite, eternal, and omnipotent, in addition to other infinite attributes, each of which are both infinite and eternal. Consequently, the pope in the section of the encyclical labeled "Love of God and love of neighbour", shows his ignorance of theology when he states in 16 that "no one has seen God", and in 17 states "no one has seen God as he is". Only a person ignorant in theology would make such a statement, since the very nature of God manifests itself in selfless giving and selfless sharing of His essence - His infinite love and His infinite goodness. The entire purpose of your existence and my existence is to know God as He truly is and not what others think He is . The pope teaches Christians what "he thinks" God is, and not what "he knows" God to be, since he says "no one has seen God as he is". How, therefore, can the pope teach you or me who or what God is without himself knowing God as He is?
As I have already stated, I have seen God as God really is - face-to-face - contrary to the pope's assertions that "no one has seen God as he is". No one, including myself, can prove that they have seen God face-to-face in the same way that no one can prove what they are thinking. I mention this to show one of two things because of my having seen God as God really is.
One thing is that the pope is either a liar for making such a statement, since many people in history besides myself have seen God as God really is, or the second thing is that he is ignorant and blind to God's ways, and is therefore, leading the blind down a dangerous path away from God, where those who follow him are potentially at risk of losing God for all eternity. That's a steep price to pay when the alternative is more infinitely rewarding. That alternative is to let God's light shine upon us by removing the straightjacket from around our gift of reason. By using our gift of reason, we will dispel the myths concerning God's nature that others would have us believe, we will experience the lightening of our spiritual burdens, we will "know" that God's spirit surrounds us and guides us, and that ultimately His spirit will lead us into the Eternal Life that He has always planned for us. No longer will we fear death, because we now know that death is the last day of our temporal life - and the first day of our eternal life.
My message to the pope is a simple warning while he still has time: feed God's sheep His truth, and only His truth- or suffer God's justice and its consequences. As much as I wish that God's infinite mercy be extended to every creature He has ever created and will ever create, He has shown me that His infinite justice does not allow for sins against His spirit of truth. They are absolutely incompatible - eternally. There is plenty of room in Heaven - no matter how late the hour - BUT - YOU must choose - God can't make you choose.
NOTHING - BUT NOTHING - IS WORTH LOSING GOD'S LOVE.