Five Steps to the Father – We are Redeemed
Posted on March 20, 2018 by Rick Blaine
Posted on March 3, 2018 by Mark
Atheists like to make a case that the God of the Old Testament is “a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser, a misogynistic, homophobic racist, an infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”[1] But a more careful, less overly-simplified, theologically correct, and unbiased reading of the Old Testament reveals that it is not God who changed, but man.
You see, even the Church has not yet arrived at what St. Paul calls “the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ.” [2] She is not yet that bride “in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.” [3] Since the Ascension of Christ, God has been slowly revealing, according to our capacity and free-will response, the fullness of His plan in the redemption of mankind.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/121752299?color=ffffff
So too, Jesus instituted the Sacrament of Reconciliation when He told the Apostles: “Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.” [4] So when we confess our sins to God through His representative, the priest, here is the promise:
The moment of absolution[5] is the moment when God reclothes me in the dignity of His image in which I am created—when he removes the stained garments of my past that are covered in the pig slop of my sins.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/120776532?color=ffffff
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Five Steps to the Father – We are Redeemed
Posted on March 20, 2018 by Rick Blaine
Posted on March 3, 2018 by Mark
Atheists like to make a case that the God of the Old Testament is “a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser, a misogynistic, homophobic racist, an infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”[1] But a more careful, less overly-simplified, theologically correct, and unbiased reading of the Old Testament reveals that it is not God who changed, but man.
You see, even the Church has not yet arrived at what St. Paul calls “the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ.” [2] She is not yet that bride “in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy a
nd without blemish.” [3] Since the Ascension of Christ, God has been slowly revealing, according to our capacity and free-will response, the fullness of His plan in the redemption of mankind.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/121752299?color=ffffff
So too, Jesus instituted the Sacrament of Reconciliation when He told the Apostles: “Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.” [4] So when we confess our sins to God through His representative, the priest, here is the promise:
The moment of absolution[5] is the moment when God reclothes me in the dignity of His image in which I am created—when he removes the stained garments of my past that are covered in the pig slop of my sins.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/120776532?color=ffffff
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