Cardinal Sarah: "There is No Forgiveness if There is No Repentance"

Catholic World Report ^ | 6/5/16 | Catherine Harmon

[marshmallow]

"It is true that Jesus always goes before us and waits for us with open arms," Cardinal Robert Sarah said in an interview published today in Polish. "But it is up to us to also move towards Him!" Rorate Caeli has posted a translation of the interview, in which the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments discusses mercy and forgiveness, the Church in Africa, and love for God as the starting point for holiness, among other subjects. A Polish edition of Cardinal Sarah's book God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith was recently published.

In response to a question about "the heresy of good-man-ism"-according to which it doesn't matter much what someone does, as long as he is trying to "be a good person"-Cardinal Sarah says:

Unfortunately, what you say is part of a contemporary ideology that is among the most dangerous - that is, "just being good". This presupposes that any truthful content is trampled and refuted. This leads us to consider everything as "good", falsifying in this way even all that is truly part of the life of man. An important contemporary philosopher, Fabrice Hadjadj, has coined a brilliant formula, speaking on the "heresies of charity" of modern man, who confuses charity with the simple desire for good (at best) or almsgiving (in the worst case). But charity is the love of God: therefore, "we are" charity, and we give witness of charity towards others because God loved us first. In the same way, it is also with mercy, superficially understood by many as a clean slate over their sins. But, there is no forgiveness if there is no repentance. Jesus did not say to the adulteress, “Well, go and continue to do what you are doing since.......

[Jim W N]

I was messed up and very sad.

[Zuriel]

Mark 16:16
Acts 2:38

Or maybe you think that believing on Jesus Christ’s words is like a buffet; picking out what you like, and leaving the rest.

[Zuriel]

**“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved and your house.” Acts 16:31.**

What about verses 32,33,34?

[Zuriel]

Rom. 6:17

[Zuriel]

**(Rom 10:3)**

You mean Rom. 10:13, which is from a chapter that continues the previous chapter’s teaching on the failure of Israel because of unbelief; and the grafting in of the Gentiles. Paul says that the unbelieving Jews can be saved. In verse 12 he points out that they CAN be saved:

“For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.”

He further pointed out that hearing can only come from a preacher sent by God.

He finished the chapter still on topic; pointing out the sad case of disobedient Israel.

Paul taught the same Acts 2:38 conversion as Peter.

“..Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”