RnMomof7 responds: This is demonic spirituality ..
In the wacky pagan world that the children of the Reformation inhabit, it must be:
RnMomof7 responds: This is demonic spirituality ..
In the wacky pagan world that the children of the Reformation inhabit, it must be:
Our apostate friends, the ex-Catholics, routinely go on an invective against paganism in Catholic theology and spirituality, while ignoring how this same sort of pagan thought has shaped how they read the Bible.
We’ve seen it in their acceptance of Nestorianism, which derived from Aristotelianism. Their interpretation of the Bible on grace, free-will, and justification derives from Calvin’s and Luther’s reading of St. Augustine, who was influenced by Manichaeism and Neo-Platonism.
Quite frankly, there isn’t a shred of Jewish thought in anything they teach.
Actually, the Essene Jews invented monasticism around the time of Christ, and a lot of the early monastics looked to St. John the Baptist as an inspiration because they were initially only hermits who lived in the desert.
Communal monasticism only developed later with the Rule of St. Pachomius.
While there is nothing commanding monasticism in the Bible, there similarly isn’t anything forbidding it either.