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God’s final purpose for humanity must outweigh all the suffering, sacrifices and hardships that humanity has to endure while we spend our time on Earth, otherwise he cannot be a loving God.
Was Christ’s mission to inform us of God’s purpose for the creation of the universe?
A journey begins to try and understand the power of the greatest commandments; are they the ultimate motivating force that would compel God to create the universe and life?
The text up to this point seemed to be of help to some people who do not really believe in a God.
I have written this story in human terms because I cannot know the mind of God, I have written this story without any authority, I have had no dreams to reveal anything, this is a collection of words for you to challenge
RELIGION.
But how can I guarantee that I have a good relationship with God through my faith? I can believe that I have, I can hope that I have but how can I know for sure that I will achieve life after death with God?
I do not have the right or the authority to make judgments about the relationship that other Catholics have with God. I also do not have the right to make judgments about the relationship that other people have with God through their faith, be they Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and Christians of all other denominations.
I am not writing this story to say how we achieve life after death, or to say whose beliefs are right.
I am writing it to show how we can relate in the greatest way to all the people whose choices and beliefs are different from ours. I am writing this story because I believe love should be the primary purpose of our lives.
CHRIST ON EARTH.
Christ asked us to do many things, but what is the ultimate purpose that we can have?
Is the greatest purpose we can have in life to believe in a certain way, is it to acknowledge and obey authority, is to spread the gospels, or to take communion and share communion with each other?
If it were any of these things Christ would have said so very clearly.
If there were one ultimate purpose for humanity, God would let us know this purpose.
There is one passage in the bible that everything else in the bible depends on. The following statement, stands as being ultimate for God and humanity. Jesus delivers these commandments with a great deal of power and authority. No other passage in the bible is so forcefully emphasized.
Mathew 22- ‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?’ Jesus replied ‘love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment and the second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself. All the law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.’
To love in this way inspires people to make great sacrifices and put others first - we need only look at the life of Christ to see this.
Law is used in democratic countries to try and achieve a fair and just society for all its citizens. Jesus said that all the law hangs on the greatest commandments. Jesus said that all the teachings of the prophets must hang on the greatest commandments.
There is a need to try and measure how much greater the two commandments are to everything else in the scriptures.
Did Christ mean that they are one per cent greater than everything else? By using this kind of measurement it could mean that we recognize their importance but it would be easy to see other aspects as being of a similar stature.
What feels right, what importance did Christ place on these commandments, are they one percent greater, or are they greater than everything else by a factor of ten?
Christ died to forgive us our sins. Why did he forgive us? It was because he loved us as he loves himself. Why does he love us in this way? Because it is the greatest love that he can have.
Because God is good he can love himself in a perfect way; if he then loves mankind as he loves himself, his love for mankind will be great.
Christ loves the father as he loves himself; the Father loves Christ as he loves himself; is this how Christ is one with the father, he loves the father as he loves himself: in a perfect way. Is this how Christ wants us to be one? He wants us to love each other as we love ourselves.
When I read the Bible from this perspective it seems to make a greater sense.
Is this the prayer we should make:
Help me Lord that I may learn to love all of my neighbours as I love myself regardless of who they are or what they believe, so that I may strive to be one with them as you are one with the father.
Then there is the other common perspective: Christ died to forgive us our sins. This means that we are born with a debt to pay – that is to say, we owe Christ. This would be like saying that when we are born we have a million pound debt to pay back, we feel guilty being in debt, and we cannot be free until we have paid back this debt.
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Is Freedom of Belief Orthodox? Jean Jaindl | Apr 6th, 2004
Though I am only on p. 16, this article is, on the whole, pretty logically layed out. However, I have detected some modernist tendencies (as condemned in Pius X's encyclical Pascendi), which I would like to question. God the mother? Really, this is quite unorthodox. Also, I cannot see how you or any other Catholic can say that we should not try to convert Musilims, Hindus, atheists, etc. to the one, true faith. Certainly God created us with the freedom to believe whatever we want to believe and to do whatever we want to do. Does that mean we have a right to do so in either case? Is it not owed to God that we serve Him in the way He has planned, and to attain to Heaven and the fullness of His love through the Church which He established? If it is owed to God to be loved, honored and obeyed by individuals, how much more so must He be obeyed by society, which is made up of these individuals? It is only through conversion to the truth that there is one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church that we will achieve the social reign of Christ the King. This is very well outlined in The Social Reign of Christ the King by Fr. Fahey
-JJ
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