There’s been an uptick in Gnosticism/New Age-ism coming across my timeline. So I think it’s time for a quick refresher on how we know for a moral certainty that there is One God, Jesus Christ is His Only Son & the Church He founded is the One True Faith.
Giving a proof for God isn’t the main point today, so let’s get it out of the way up front.
Everything that comes to be has a cause. An infinite chain of causes is the same as no cause, since everything would just be an effect of something else. So much for an infinite causal regress.
To maintain causality, we need a cause that’s not an effect of anything else, i.e. an Uncaused Cause.
By necessity the First Cause must be 100% self-necessary with zero contingency. Otherwise it would have some degree of dependency on something else & therefore be an effect, which is a contradiction.
Infinity follows by necessity from self-existence. If any other being could place an external limitation on the First Cause, it would in that regard be dependent on that being. It would thus be contingent, therefore not self-necessary, etc.
By the same logic, omnipotence follows from this infinity. There can be no limitation on the exercise of the Prime Mover’s powers because such a limitation would constitute contingency and result in a self-contradiction.
It should be obvious by now, but the proper vernacular term for self-necessary, infinite, omnipotent Being is God.
Note that I didn’t say “a being” above. Because being can’t just be something God possesses. If God existed like a creature does, His existence could be taken away & we’d be right back to contingency.
Instead, God has to be Being Itself.
That’s right, editors. God is a verb.
God’s infinite nature doesn’t even admit of self-limitation. So God’s exercise of power is always infinite.
Because God is Absolute, pure Being, His power isn’t a quality that can be separated from Him, i.e. God is His Power.
Because we are effects of the First Cause, and we can communicate, it must follow that communication is within God’s power.
& since God is His power, He is His Word.
So we would expect an infinite communication of God’s Word to look like this:
God coming in Person as His infinite Word rules out any further revelation. & because God is One, he speaks only One, omni-dynamic Word to us. Which invalidates any other means of coming to know God fully & any need for special secret knowledge.
Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life. There is no other name by which we are saved.
Quick note on discerning spirits: There’s the good kind & the bad kind. In light of the foregoing, any spirit that tells you there are higher sources of wisdom than Jesus Christ is the bad kind. Pray that God send the good ones to defend you.
As for their Witch minions, learn how to handle them here:
To save everyone some time, here is a helpful reminder that this blog rejects the errors of Modernist Liberalism. Error has no rights, and blasphemy will not be suffered.
God’s words are works, as St. Teresa Avila said (ie, when her soul was troubled, He’d tell her to be strong and at peace, and at the same time, strength and peace were communicated to and established within her).
I’d be interested to read more re: God’s infinite communication vis-a-vis things like the Shroud. You can clearly go on for days with this subject.
Also, isn’t “Being” a gerund, a verbal noun? I am the worst in my Latin class, mind you.
It’s the gerund or present participle of “be”.
There are a number of versions of what God told Moses, but my New American Standard renders it “I AM THAT I AM.” Which is much stronger than “I am who I am” that one often sees. It looks a little odd, but it makes sense to me. His Being is His essential quality, and it’s a perpetual action. It also makes a really powerful scene when Jesus is asked by the court if he is the one foretold by prophecy and he answers, “I AM.” You can almost hear it boom off the page.
All modern “advice” boils down to “do what thou wilt” and “you shall be as gods.” Except what you hear from prophets. They all have a consistent message: “Repent.”
All self-professes Christians who think they know better than God get the boot.
Yes, and to get more specific, blaspheming a saint canonized by infallible decree of Holy Mother Church qualifies.
As for me, all I have written is less than straw, and I submit all to Holy Church’s judgment.
I don’t know the context, but yes.
The one who tried to post it knows what he did.
This post, and the comments since, are a gem.
Magnas gratias.