Posted on 07/30/2024 2:49:42 AM PDT by spirited irish
Jesus asked the chief priests and elders to take a stand an a simple truth claim: Either John’s baptism is from heaven or from man. Declare what you believe to be the truth. They ponder: If we say that John’s baptism is from heaven, then we will be shamed because we don’t live like it is from heaven and Jesus will show that we are hypocrites. (1)
On the other hand, if we say that John’s baptism is from man, we may be attacked by the crowd, because they all believe he was a prophet. So since we don’t want to be shamed and we don’t want to be harmed by a mob, we will not say that either of those positions are true (that John’s baptism is from heaven or from man). So we will rationalize and say: We don’t know the answer to your question.
Clearly they are equivocating.
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Moral relativity is the Pope saying that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Jesus clearly said “No man comes to the Father except through me”. Why is the Pope afraid to say that? Because he doesn’t want Muslims to go nuts and start killing people. Like they’re not going to do that anyway.
As I recall..
Matthew 3:11
“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Clearly, John was baptizing with water. However, it is also clear that the Holy Spirit moved into Jesus when John baptized Him.
Many forms of “Relativism.” Per Wiki
Relativism is a family of philosophical views which deny claims to objectivity within a particular domain and assert that valuations in that domain are relative to the perspective of an observer or the context in which they are assessed.
There are many different forms of relativism, with a great deal of variation in scope and differing degrees of controversy among them.
Moral relativism encompasses the differences in moral judgments among people and cultures.
Epistemic relativism holds that there are no absolute principles regarding normative belief, justification, or rationality, and that there are only relative ones.
Alethic relativism (also factual relativism) is the doctrine that there are no absolute truths, i.e., that truth is always relative to some particular frame of reference, such as a language or a culture (cultural relativism).
Some forms of relativism also bear a resemblance to philosophical skepticism.
Descriptive relativism seeks to describe the differences among cultures and people without evaluation, while normative relativism evaluates the word truthfulness of views within a given framework.
From the book “What We Can’t Not Know,” a penetrating examination of the lost world of unchanging truths, moral absolutes, and morally-grounded common sense that we all really do know about right and wrong, author J. Budzisewski, professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas, writes that the pervasive darkness within both our churches and society requires lots of lies:
““…the public relations of moral wrong require lies, and a lot of them…There are the lies about whether infidelity and promiscuity really hurt anyone. There are the lies about whether the living child is really alive, or really a child. Next come lies about the meaning of fairness, the nature of promises, and what the “committed gay relationship” is really like. Amid all of them is the lie about how hard it is to know what to do.”
Does this describe the Democrat Party platform?
Yup, muslims need no excuse to kill. Even each other.
Might as well take a stand then since they’ll do it anyways.
My guess is the pope didn’t commit because he doesn’t really believe that.
Excellent article. Most glaring these days is the obsession with self, a cricket telling us to follow our hearts, and people telling each other, “You do you.” We are surrounded by witchcraft and sorcery.
Jesus clearly said “No man comes to the Father except through me”. Why is the Pope afraid to say that?
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Because that means Mary isn’t a mediatrix.
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