Canto
XX
Gangster
Gospel
Canto XX
Petrus Romanus
Are Mormons Christians?
No, Mormonism is not just another Protestant heresy. The various Protestant heresies are not damnable because Protestants actually repent to God before they are perverted away from Catholic Truth. They are a Church Invisible, "separated brothers." Mormonism, on the other hand, is a damnable heresy because they do not repent to God at all. Sure, they say they're Christians and a quick glance at one of their websites will no doubt reveal a doctrine that is oftentimes textually consistent with mainstream Christianity. However, when you dig deeper into their theology, you will soon realize that the devil in this case resides in details.
Heresy #1) Mormons don't believe that God created the Universe. They believe that God was a man who became God by living a perfect life. This is at variance with Catholicism which states that God became man and not the other way around. Also, it is at variance with Catholicism which states that God made the universe, not the other way around:
(Ge 1:1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Heresy #2) Mormons believe that by living a perfect life, they too can become gods and beget spirit children who will worship them as such. First of all, who wants the job of someone who is required to have perpetual and omniscient memory of the cross?!
The only way a man can become a Spirit is if he leaves temporality and reenters divinity, which is to say, he must become transfigured. Thus, when Christ was transfigured, he became God. However, the Universe is not big enough to contain more than one God unless all but one are corporealized. When Christ died, the Universe died with him which is why Christ needed to be resurrected. Without the resurrection, eternity is not possible and without eternity, neither is there temporality. The Assumption of Mary is therefore necessary because as one God died, another God must ascend and assume the place of God in Christ's stead. It is impossible for a God to resurrect himself, but the Queen of Heaven Coredemptrix resurrected his body and soul (but not his spirit) in her Immaculate Heart. They essentially took turns being God.
The BVM was never herself transfigured; neither was the historic Mary who represents the Goddess in scripture. I don't worship Mary the woman; I worship Mary Shekhinah -- the Goddess who made her! I do however worship the historic Jesus who was deified at his Transfiguration, although it was the Virgin who revealed him to me. Let there be no disparity between our two necessary Saviors! -- I live by the grace of Christ in the Heart of the Virgin. That would be Catholicism!
So don't worry about becoming 'perfect' enough to be transfigured and thus obtain omniscient knowledge of Christ's Passion. We will NEVER know how much it cost to see our sin upon that cross! Neither can there be more than one Deity at a time as there is no real time for Mary to take turns with any of us! It only worked the first time because Christ died and (FYI) we can't!
Which of course brings me to my next point... It is an offence to God to tell her that we are not perfect. The blood of Christ is perfect and we are perfected by it in faith. Jesus did not relish his perfection and neither should we. Therefore, bemoaning one's imperfection is prideful and an affront to the blood of Christ:
(2 Cor 10:17-18) But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 18For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.
When Jesus died on the cross, he crucified the law to his flesh. It is impossible to sin in absence of the law. As Paul declares, "All things are lawful for me" (1 Cor 6:12). And elsewhere, "Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law" (Rom 8:2). In the book of Romans, Paul likens the law to a dead husband:
(Rom 7:2-3) For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
We are not under the law, but under grace (Rom 6:14). No need to ask Mary to "pray for us sinners" or make continual confessions to a priest in hopes of absolution. If the priest tells you to say ten "Hail Marys" and you get a heart attack on the ninth one, you ain't going to hell. There is no dispensation of grace at the Eucharist and as for you Protestants, the return of Spiritual charisms such as tongues (or the anointing) is not a sign of having been restored to God's grace. Yes, we should crave spiritual gifts, but we should also recognize that all grace and restoration was given at Golgotha and that Jesus promised he would never leave us (even if tongues should cease):
(1 Cor 13:11) When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
We don't need to become gods because we already are gods (John 10:34). We have limitless power and authority in Christ and there is nothing that we can't do! Whatever we ask for in Jesus' name is ours. We have life eternal, a God who loves us, a new heavens and a brand new earth, the fellowship of angels, true love and joy unspeakable!
As far as spirit children go, there will be no need for them. Heaven is a smorgasbord of sex. It is rated XXX -- mature audience -- for adults only, not for the family! Even if we wanted to have spirit children, we couldn't because we are but one spirit. We can't replicate ourselves -- every child that has ever been born was ordained from beforetime. Some are ordained for life; others for death -- but when we abort fetuses, we alter the divine pathway thereby reducing heaven's population -- we're killing ourselves!:
(Rev 12:4) and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
All souls are linked together. We sin together; repent together; and are raptured together (1 Thess 4:17). But the patchwork balloon cannot beget another patchwork of souls -- again, no real time for that! To paraphrase Satchmo, When the saints go marching in, they'll be numbered!
Hence, if we see any children in heaven, they will be projections from the Church Age -- holographic beings of light (i.e. apparitions). However, because women by their feminine nature enjoy nurturing and breastfeeding infants, biologically genuine infants would exist there, although they would never grow older than about two years which is the maximum age a child can be without a spirit. Otherwise, it becomes a homo erectus and who wants to clean up after that? Thus, at the age of two, they sprout wings and fly away like Da Vinci's angels -- actually, they just disappear!
So if you enjoy being barefoot and pregnant (and who doesn't?), you will have ample opportunity in heaven! The curse of childbirth is done away with along with menstruation and because all wombs are barren, our heavenly infants will be miraculously conceived of the Holy Ghost just as Jesus was. Because there is a moratorium on bleeding in heaven (the only exception being during virgin sex which you will have every time you receive a new hymen -- which I hear is often in heaven), all childbirths will be non-vaginal. Instead, the baby will miraculously appear in its mother's arms just as Jesus did to the historic Virgin Mary -- and in Paradise, there are no laws against public breastfeeding!
The purpose of religion is not to become God; it is to realize your own Godliness. We are temporal; she is divine -- but we don't have a subordinate relationship with our Theotokos. It's a marriage -- equal partners! Of course, if it were at all possible to beget spirit children, we would teach them to worship Christ, not ourselves!
Heresy #3) Mormons believe that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three separate gods. They believe that the Persons of the Trinity are united in purpose, but not in substance. This is at variance with traditional Christianity which teaches that there is one Godhead in three Persons. The Holy Ghost is the Miraculous answering of prayer and Jesus said he was the Father on many occasions. These statements can only be interpreted literally if the Father is Ultimate Reality:
(John 14:5-9) Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 8Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
(John 14:21, 24) and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, 24He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
Because the relationship between God and believer is marital (Is 61:10, Rev 19:9) and because Mormons believe in more than one god, all Mormons are polygamists (even if the modern LDS Church officially renounces the practice).
Heresy #4) Mormons believe in separate heavens. According to them, there is a lowest heaven for the unrighteous, an intermediate heaven for righteous non-Mormons, and a highest heaven for practicing Mormons. This is at variance with Catholic Tradition. The Roman Church maintains there are no unrighteous in heaven.
There is no better heaven than the knowledge of Jesus Christ. The notion that one Christian's eternity is better or worse than another's is therefore repugnant. If a Catholic went to heaven and learned that there were people who were struggling with bad habits, psychological problems or doctrinal misunderstandings, we would request to go and help those people resolve their issues so that they could experience the blessings of paradise more perfectly. Ministry will continue in heaven and we will all be baptized Catholics believing Last Marian Doctrine. We will all be priests and priestesses with the Blessed Virgin Mary as our Pope. We Christians are confused and divided now, but all divisions will cease in heaven. We will all be One with each other as members of one perfect body -- even the body of Christ! Separate heavens? Forget it! If God told me I was worthy to go to a higher heaven than my brothers and sisters, I'd tell her to send me to the lowest heaven so that I might help inspire those still struggling with sin. Paradise is all-for-one and one-for-all!
Heresy #5) Mormons believe that there was a great apostasy in the Church which the Mormons later restored. I've heard this same "great apostasy" shit coming out of the Protestant Church too so let me address this now...
There was never an apostasy in the Catholic Church which any other church later restored. From the day of Pentecost up until today, the Roman Catholic Church has been under constant assault from the forces of darkness. We never forsook the Doctrine during all that time. When we marched through pagan Europe publishing salvation without a printing press, we encountered an absolute demonic bedlam par excellence, the likes of which makes today's world look like a Chuck E. Cheese parking lot! We faced angry mobs, endured bitter persecutions, withstood maddening heresies and brutal tortures, and yet by the grace of God, we united a continent and terraformed a planet in which scarcely anyone living has yet to hear of a certain Nazarene who led an obscure Jewish sect on the outskirts of an extinct empire -- and yet we purged Greco-Roman culture of sexual immorality, dismantled its Pantheon, turned back Islamic aggression, built Universities, forged alliances, consolidated power, commissioned timeless masterpieces, all the while laying the institutional templates for Western civilization so derided by those who, by virtue of their inheritance of it, have had the distinct luxury to do so! We stood down Gnosticism, the Great Schism, Protestantism, Humanism, Darwinism, Fascism, Communism, Secularism, Modernism, Postmodernism, and every other mind-bending "ism" the Devil could throw at us and overcame them all by the blood of the Lamb and intercession of Mary!
The success of a Church can be measured by the number of unfaithful in attendance; and the RC Church is so structured and rules-based as to facilitate the hell-bound, without 'officially' shirking the tenets of the faith. And yet throughout it all, we never forsook the Doctrine of Mary.
Was there ever a Catholic Apostasy? Let's ask Jesus:
(Matt 16:18) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
No, the Christian Church never fell into apostasy as the Mormons claim. In order for the B.V.M. to create the world, Peter had to repent. If he didn't repent, Mary would become subject to Peter's sin and wouldn't live long enough to create a toothpick much less the eternal cosmos. Therefore, all Christians enter the world at the moment of repentance and the world prior to that was constructed around that moment. We are all the Immaculate Conception and Mary the Immaculate Conception created the world:
(Isa 1:9) Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Heresy #6) Mormons believe that the Bible is flawed. Their founder Joseph Smith made over 600 corrections to it. This is at variance with traditional Catholicism, which regards scripture as divinely inspired (divinitus inspirata).
Heresy #7) Mormons believe that the Book of Mormon is canonical. Only Jesus Christ can declare a book to be canonical and he conferred Apostolic Authority on St. Peter who himself canonized the Pauline Epistles (2 Pet 3:15-16). Paul writes that a prophet cannot contradict the Bible:
(1 Cor 14:32-33; 37) And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, 37If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
The Successor of St. Peter, Pope Saint Damasus I, ratified the canon when he commissioned the Latin Vulgate translation of St. Jerome. The Bible contradicts the Book of Mormon. Therefore, it cannot be canonized by the Apostolic Church.
Heresy #8) Mormons baptize the dead. Although you wouldn't know it by watching one of their rigid liturgical services, everyone in the Catholic Church is alive:
(Mr 12:27) He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living:
The Requiem Mass, which dates back to medieval times, has been characterized as a communion taken on behalf of the dead. Likewise, Paul also makes mention of a cult of worshippers who baptized themselves for the dead without fully explaining the practice:
(1 Cor 15:29) Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
My guess is that these were political baptisms, but in either case, we don't baptize the dead:
Requiem Mass Offertory
Domine, Jesu Christe, Rex gloriæ, libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum de pnis inferni et de profundo lacu.
Libera eas de ore leonis, ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum; sed signifer sanctus Michæl repræsentet eas in lucem sanctam, quam olim Abrahæ promisisti et semini ejus.
Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, laudis offerimus; tu suscipe pro animabus illis, quarum hodie memoriam facimus. Fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam. Quam olim Abrahæ promisisti et semini ejus.
Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory, free the souls of all the faithful departed from infernal punishment and the deep pit.
Free them from the mouth of the lion; do not let Tartarus swallow them, nor let them fall into darkness; but may the sign-bearer, Saint Michael, lead them into the holy light which you promised to Abraham and his seed.
O Lord, we offer you sacrifices and prayers in praise; accept them on behalf of the souls whom we remember today. Make them pass over from death to life, as you promised to Abraham and his seed.
CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH
RESPONSE TO A 'DUBIUM' on the validity of baptism conferred by
«The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints», called «Mormons»
Question: Whether the baptism conferred by the community «The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints», called «Mormons» in the vernacular, is valid.
Response: Negative.
The Supreme Pontiff John Paul II, in the Audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect, approved the present Response, decided in the Sessione Ordinaria of this Congregation, and ordered it published.
From the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
5 June 2001.
+ Joseph Cardinal RATZINGER, Prefect
Heresy #666) Mormons don't believe that God is omnipresent. Although the preceding heresies of the LDS Church are severe, it is quite possible to believe in any or all of them and yet still be a saved Christian (albeit a horrendously confused one). Purgatory will no doubt straighten out these confusions. However, there is one Mormon heresy that is damnable and cannot be forgiven -- the Mormon tenet that God is not omnipresent:
The Holy Ghost as a personage of Spirit can no more be omnipresent in person than can the Father or the Son, but by his intelligence, his knowledge, his power and influence, over and through the laws of nature, he is and can be omnipresent throughout all the works of God
(Aaronic Priesthood Manual 3)
But why is this anathema maranatha? Because if God is not omnipresent, then there are things he doesn't see which means he cannot be omniscient. If God is not omniscient, then there are things he cannot do which means he cannot be omnipotent. If God is neither omnipotent, omniscient nor omnipresent, then who do Mormons repent to? Here's a hint: it ain't God! -- and if you don't repent to God, Our Lady of Etreme Stupidity won't know to redeem you:
(Ezr 10:11) Now therefore make confession unto the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
In 2nd Corinthians, Paul warns against a Church that would preach a different Jesus. He may as well have been speaking about the LDS Church:
(2 Cor. 11:3-4; 6) But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. 6But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
Are JWs Saved?
Yes, their faith is valid.
Jehovah's Witnesses wrongly believe that Christ was the Archangel Michael who was slain for mankind's sins on a torture stake. How can you tie someone to a torture stake if they don't have a corporeal body? No flesh = no torture; no blood = no salvation.
Yet technically, this faith is sufficient because they believe that their sins caused the vicarious death of the Angel for which they repent to a Father-God who is omnipresent. Simply put, this is the spirit of the antichrist, which is to say that Christ did not come in the flesh. It is a heresy of course, but not a damnable one within the inane framework of JW cosmology. Likewise, the Apostle Paul also encountered a cult of worshippers who had repented to John but hadn't yet received the Word Incarnate:
(Ac 19:1-6) And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, 2He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. 3And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. 4Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. 5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
That they believe Jesus is Michael is irrelevant to the gospel. In my prayers, I rarely call Jesus by his true name Yeshua and he doesn't mind. As long as you repent to the "Great Spirit," it doesn't matter if you think he's the Great Pumpkin!
In short, JWs are saved albeit they get into heaven on a technicality -- but then again, don't we all?
Is Scientology a Cult?
Does it sound like one to you?:
THE RELIGIOUS HERITAGE OF SCIENTOLOGY
Like the philosophers of Greece, India and China, the Hebrews, too, sought to define the meaning of life. According to Jewish tradition, it was Abraham who first gained a special understanding of what lay at the heart of the universe and from that revelation came a belief in a personal god. He further believed that beneath the seemingly endless variety of life lay a single purpose, a single reality.
Judaism is the mother religion of both Christianity and Islam -- the three dominant faiths in the Western world.
Two thousand years ago, Jesus of Nazareth brought new hope to man by preaching that this life was not all men might hope for, that man was more than only flesh and would continue to live, even after death. Implicit in his message was the promise of salvation from suffering and a promise of eternal peace.
At odds with the teachings of Jesus was traditional rabbinical belief that salvation would not come until the advent of a distant Messiah. Hence, the special appeal of Christ's message that the Kingdom of God was not only at hand, but lay within all those with faith.
Long fearing popular revolt, the Romans equated Christ's words with political insurrection. Rome had decreed that nothing should be held above imperial order and thus viewed Christ's wholly spiritual message as dangerously revolutionary, particularly his talk of the coming Kingdom.
Though crucified, the hope that Christ brought to man did not die. Instead, his death became symbolic of the triumph of the spirit over the material body and so brought a new awareness of man's true nature.
(http://www.whatisscientology.org/)
I couldn't have put it better myself!
And by the way, I've noticed that some Protestinks like to make a habit out of branding other people's religions as cults! If yours is the only true religion, then what does that make you?!
The Cult of Self-Realization
I think therefore I am
But what am I apart from you?
A feral child in a cosmic void?
Unaware of herself as a person?
I think therefore I am, no doubt
I AM therefore I think!
I AM before I think!
But to think requires self-realization!
I must know THAT I AM before I know THAT I THINK
But self-realization
requires an external reality
distinct from myself
from which to delineate myself
Distinct in its motions:
I cannot know THAT I AM in a static void
That would be non-existence
I cannot know THAT I AM in a silopsic reality
That would be non-distinction (a form of non-existence)
There must be something in cosmology that moves apart from my intent
which itself reflects the intent of another beside me
YOU ARE THEREFORE I AM
I AM THEREFORE GOD IS
If my will were the only will in the Universe
Everything in the Universe would move according to my will
Which would make me indistinguishable for the External Universe
Which in turn would render me unaware of myself as a distinct entity
Which would render me non-existent
But life requires Witness
And Witness requires a distinct being
With a distinct will
A distinct intent
A distinct
love
"Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me."
What is TRUTH?
TRUTH is as terrifyingly easy to believe
as it is to doubt
What is SIN?
SIN is the intellectual abandonment of oneself
CONVERSION is the intellectual embrace of oneself
The soul that sins dies; but whoever converts to Yahweh lives!
"And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."
Who knew that Christianity was a self-realization cult in disguise!
Or are these whacky self-realization cults Christians by another name?
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LORD JESUS CHRIST,SON OF THE FATHER,SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVEIN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVEDFROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,WHO ONCE WAS MARY,BE OUR ADVOCATE.AMEN.
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
SON OF THE FATHER,
SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.
LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVE
IN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,
THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVED
FROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.
MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,
WHO ONCE WAS MARY,
BE OUR ADVOCATE.
AMEN.
