Posted on 09/15/2022 6:30:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
The inter-religious document was updated after the religious leaders had given their assent to it, and after it had been publicly pronounced during a live-stream.
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (LifeSiteNews) – In a peculiar turn of events, the ecumenical Declaration read out and signed by Pope Francis at the 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions held in Kazakhstan, has since been changed. The original version appeared to go against Catholic teaching, and it is not known if Pope Francis agreed to the updated version.
The original version of the Declaration was read aloud by Anglican prelate Dr. Jo Bailey Wells in front of assembled leaders of the Congress, including the Pope. It was also live-streamed by media outlets, including Vatican News and EWTN.
Paragraph 10 of the document originally read: “We note that pluralism and differences in religion, skin color, gender, race and language are expressions of the wisdom of God’s will in creation. Thus any incident of coercion to a particular religion and religious doctrine is unacceptable.” (Emphasis in original)
As LifeSiteNews noted earlier today, this passage echoed Pope Francis’s Abu Dhabi document word for word – a document which faithful Catholics expressed strong concerns about. It was even described at the time of publication as seeming to “overturn the doctrine of the Gospel.”
However, following the live-streaming of the document’s pronouncement, and its subsequent publication on the Congress’s website, the document was updated some hours later.
The new passage now reads: “We note that pluralism in terms of differences in skin color, gender, race, language and culture are expressions of the wisdom of God in creation. Religious diversity is permitted by God and, therefore, any coercion to a particular religion and religious doctrine is unacceptable.” (Emphasis in original)
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Any religion that says, “We’re the one, true religion,” I want no part of.
Including the one I was raised in.
“Follow the shoe!”
They are still going off the rails by mention of “gender”.
Genderism is the proverbial pot telling the Potter that He made a mistake.
Well, yeah - as long as that religion affirms that Jesus is the only path to salvation. Jesus said that - not me. Muslims and other non-Christian faiths are all permitted by God, but they have no path to eternal life in Heaven. Jesus made that clear - Muslims are basically idol worshippers and therefore no part of God's kingdom.
Any religion that departs from God’s Truth is the work of the Devil. Denial of God’s Truth is not faith in God.
I will accept God’s Truth that Jesus established the Catholic Church and the Sacraments. Baptism, Confession, Eucharist, Confirmation, Marriage, Holy Orders and Anointing of the Sick.
Only the Catholic Church provides all 7 Sacraments for our Salvation. Only the Catholic Church provides the Sacrament of the Eucharist “The Bread of Life” that Jesus told us is necessary for our salvation. John 6:51
Other religions were established by man with the exception of the Jewish religion, and they rejected Jesus.
May you find God’s Truth, accept it and live it.
We can accept and live God’s Truth or follow man made religions.
God gives us choice on what and how we honor God and live our lives. God loves us but does not force Himself on us.
We choose.
“WE choose”
Nope. A spiritually dead person does not revive themselves. If you are spiritually reborn it is because the Lord initiated it....indeed, He declared it from before the beginning of time.
God Chooses. His grace is irresistible.
Why would God force us to believe and love Him? That is not true love. God wants us to Choose and Believe in God. Yes, he gives us graces to help us and even spiritually dead can change with the help of God’s graces before they die.
God does love us unconditionally in that he loves us even in our sins. But he cannot love our sins. He cannot love evil. He will always forgive us if we repent. To love him back, we must be free to choose to love him or not. Love cannot be programmed or forced. To love him is the greatest thing we can do for ourselves. But we can choose to not love him. Our choice to not love him does not diminish his unconditional love. But it certainly diminishes ours!
God gives us graces and His love to guide us in choosing to love God and to do His will.
We choose in how we live our life and not separated from God by unconfessed mortal sin
According to 1 Peter 3:21:
“Baptism . . . now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
“The Lord himself affirms that baptism is necessary for salvation [Jn 3:5]. . . . Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament [Mk 16:16]
Just a reinforcement that all religion is man-made and therefore all religion is flawed and even as sinful in nature as the men who formulated the religions.
Knee pain meds working on him...I doubt it, but it seems funny.
If you consider Jesus both human and divine, then you are correct.
Since Jesus is God and He gave us God’s Truth as He established the Catholic Church. Jesus established His Church with the sacraments for our Salvation. Jesus only established one church.
Many other religions established by man follow some of God’s Truth but reject some of God’s Truth.
Jesus wants all of us to unify and believe in His Truth and join Him in Heaven. It is our choice.
Yes, the Catholic Church has many sinners, and some do not follow God’s Truth, yet the Catholic Church firmly holds onto the teachings of Jesus and God’s Truth.
God wants us to seek His Truth, accept it and live it.
Where did Jesus establish the catholic church? With all the pomp and glitz and crap He disdained - and the rules for which He died to remove from our lives?
Matthew 16:18 is a key passage when Christ established His Church (now named the Catholic Church): “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.”
Jesus makes Peter, the first pope, the rock of his Church, his papal successors, as Peter, remain head of the Christian Church on earth. For wherever the foundation is, there is the true Church of Jesus.
Jesus established his Catholic Church on the apostles to teach all that he commanded (Matt. 28:18-20, Acts 2:42), sending them the Holy Spirit to lead them into all truth (John 16:13). So God gives any truth we need to know in the Bible regarding our salvation through his Church.
Jesus said his Church would be “the light of the world.” He then noted that “a city set on a hill cannot be hid” (Matt. 5:14). This means his Church is a visible organization. It must have characteristics that clearly identify it and that distinguish it from other churches. Jesus promised, “I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18). This means that his Church will never be destroyed and will never fall away from him. His Church will survive until his return.
Among the Christian churches, only the Catholic Church has existed since the time of Jesus. Every other Christian church is an offshoot of the Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox churches broke away from unity with the pope in 1054. The Protestant churches were established during the Reformation, which began in 1517. (Most of today’s Protestant churches are actually offshoots of the original Protestant offshoots.)
Only the Catholic Church existed in the tenth century, in the fifth century, and in the first century, faithfully teaching the doctrines given by Christ to the apostles, omitting nothing. The line of popes can be traced back, in unbroken succession, to Peter himself. This is unequaled by any institution in history.
The Catholic Church has existed for nearly 2,000 years, despite constant opposition from the world. This is testimony to the Church’s divine origin. It must be more than a merely human organization, especially considering that its human members— even some of its leaders—have been unwise, corrupt, or prone to heresy.
Any merely human organization with such members would have collapsed early on. The Catholic Church is today the most vigorous church in the world (and the largest, with a billion members: one sixth of the human race), and that is testimony not to the cleverness of the Church’s leaders, but to the protection of the Holy Spirit.
As from the first, God speaks to his Church through the Bible and through sacred Tradition. To make sure we understand him, he guides the Church’s teaching authority—the magisterium—so it always interprets the Bible and Tradition accurately. This is the gift of infallibility.
Like the three legs on a stool, the Bible, Tradition, and the magisterium are all necessary for the stability of the Church and to guarantee sound doctrine.
Jesus promised he would not leave us orphans (John 14:18) but would send the Holy Spirit to guide and protect us (John 15:26). He gave the sacraments to heal, feed, and strengthen us. The seven sacraments —baptism, the Eucharist, penance (also called reconciliation or confession), confirmation, holy orders, matrimony, and the anointing of the sick—are not just symbols. They are signs that actually convey God’s grace and love.
The sacraments were foreshadowed in the Old Testament by things that did not actually convey grace but merely symbolized it (circumcision, for example, prefigured baptism, and the Passover meal prefigured the Eucharist. When Christ came, he did not do away with symbols of God’s grace. He supernaturalized them, energizing them with grace. He made them more than symbols.
Paul reminds us that the bread and the wine really become, by a miracle of God’s grace, the actual body and blood of Jesus: “Anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself” (1 Cor. 11:27–29).
After the consecration of the bread and wine, no bread or wine remains on the altar. Only Jesus himself, under the appearance of bread and wine, remains.
The Catholic Church teaches what the apostles taught and what the Bible teaches: We are saved by grace alone, but not by faith alone (which is what “Bible Christians” teach; see Jas. 2:24).
Since no gift can be forced on the recipient—gifts always can be rejected—even after we become justified, we can throw away the gift of salvation. We throw it away through grave (mortal) sin (1 John 5:16, Rom. 11:22–23, 1 Cor. 15:1–2; CCC 1854–1863). Paul tells us, “The wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23).
Catholic Answers
https://www.catholic.com/tract/pillar-of-fire-pillar-of-truth
I sense that you may not fully understand the Catholic Faith and the Church that Jesus provided for our salvation. Yes, there are some man made errors by Catholic leaders that have led to heresies that don’t represent the catholic faith. Thus many have left and formed other religions and some remain in the Catholic Church believing false teachers.
The most efficacious prayer of the Church is the holy sacrifice of the Mass, because it is a sacramental re-presentation of Christ’s own sacrifice on Calvary to the Father. In Communion we receive the Body and Blood of Christ. John6:51
I hope you seek God’s Truth and you may find it in the Bible and the Catholic Catechism.
In today’s world, there are many false teachers and prophets. Jesus warned us no to follow them.
Why does anyone not want to follow Christ and be part of the Church He founded?
God’s Peace be with you.
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