An entry entitled "A Saint In Hell - Is That Possible" was posted on April 28, 2014, on this blog. Unfortunately, the You Tube video that was cited is no longer available. It showed Angelica Zambrano who was a little girl at the time giving a fast-spoken and convincing testimony in her native tongue (with a voice-over in English) about a vision she had of John Paul 2, a former pope and a recent saint, in Hell. Having been a popular pope for decades, it is not surprising that Angelica Zambrano's vision was not to be believed by most.
That John Paul 2 could be in Hell is not entirely out of the realm of possibility now that there is corroborating evidence. BBC News had been shown "hundreds of letters and photographs that tell the story of Pope John Paul II's close relationship with a married woman [Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka], which lasted more than 30 years." [1]
There is no need to elaborate further on a man who is supposedly the Vicar of Christ and a saint who without any compunction possessed the the love and the heart of a married woman to the exclusion of her husband, Hendrik S. Houthakker [2]. Whether the former pope and saint had sexual relations with Mrs. Houthakker is irrelevant since "anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." [3]
[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35542708
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_S._Houthakker
[3] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5%3A28
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Friday, February 12, 2016
A Southward Papacy
In this blogger's opinion, this papacy is not headed northward toward Heaven but in the opposite direction.
Recently, the pope dispatched over a thousand "new hand-picked 'super confessors' to forgive those who have sinned so badly that they can only normally be pardoned by the pontiff himself." [1]
"In a bid to win back the hearts of people who have left the Catholic Church, the 'missionaries of mercy' will hear the confessions of the worst of all sins - from attempting to assassinate the pope to spitting out blessed bread and wine in Church [or anywhere else].
"Since the 12th century, those guilty of these so-called 'reserved sins' had their cases evaluated by a secret tribunal in the tiny Vatican city state before they were sent before the pope, who would determine an appropriate penance.
"Now, 1,142 priests and monks from around the world have be [sic] given the power, for the Vatican's Jubilee Year, to forgive sinners in their flocks - and possibly fellow priests as one of the special sins is breaking the seal of confession." [2]
One can view this as a charitable act by a forgiving pope, but this blogger sees a pope who is full of himself and who has overstepped his bounds by delegating a serious responsibility, including the forgiveness of sins of desecration, that has been in place since the 12th century to 1,142 priests and monks. The fact that for some 800 years such sins are only to be evaluated by the pope underscores the weight and magnitude of their gravity.
Expanding the power to forgive such grave sins, even if it is for a limited time, to 1,142 priests and monks when the power to do so ought to be vested in the pope alone would appear to dilute the degree of their seriousness 1,142 times. Satan must be ecstatic.
To add to Satan's delight, "[t]he Catholic church is telling newly appointed bishops that it is 'not necessarily' their duty to report accusations of clerical child abuse and that only victims or their families should make the decision to report abuse to police." [3] So now the Catholic church is officially an accessory after the fact [4] to priests and monks who have abused children sexually [5].
How can this pope be considered as the Vicar of Christ when his actions serve Satan's interests? This blogger believes that he cannot be the Vicar of Christ and that whoever he truly is, he is leading the papacy to Hell.
[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3441058/Pope-Francis-sends-1-000-new-hand-picked-super-confessors-forgive-sinned-badly-normally-pardoned-pontiff-himself.html
[2] Ibid.
[3] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/10/catholic-bishops-not-obliged-report-clerical-child-abuse-vatican-says
[4] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/accessory_after_the_fact
[5] "In most states [in the United States], child abuse [including child sexual abuse] may be charged as either a felony or a less serious offense depending on the circumstances." See http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/child-abuse-penalties-and-sentencing.html
Recently, the pope dispatched over a thousand "new hand-picked 'super confessors' to forgive those who have sinned so badly that they can only normally be pardoned by the pontiff himself." [1]
"In a bid to win back the hearts of people who have left the Catholic Church, the 'missionaries of mercy' will hear the confessions of the worst of all sins - from attempting to assassinate the pope to spitting out blessed bread and wine in Church [or anywhere else].
"Since the 12th century, those guilty of these so-called 'reserved sins' had their cases evaluated by a secret tribunal in the tiny Vatican city state before they were sent before the pope, who would determine an appropriate penance.
"Now, 1,142 priests and monks from around the world have be [sic] given the power, for the Vatican's Jubilee Year, to forgive sinners in their flocks - and possibly fellow priests as one of the special sins is breaking the seal of confession." [2]
One can view this as a charitable act by a forgiving pope, but this blogger sees a pope who is full of himself and who has overstepped his bounds by delegating a serious responsibility, including the forgiveness of sins of desecration, that has been in place since the 12th century to 1,142 priests and monks. The fact that for some 800 years such sins are only to be evaluated by the pope underscores the weight and magnitude of their gravity.
Expanding the power to forgive such grave sins, even if it is for a limited time, to 1,142 priests and monks when the power to do so ought to be vested in the pope alone would appear to dilute the degree of their seriousness 1,142 times. Satan must be ecstatic.
To add to Satan's delight, "[t]he Catholic church is telling newly appointed bishops that it is 'not necessarily' their duty to report accusations of clerical child abuse and that only victims or their families should make the decision to report abuse to police." [3] So now the Catholic church is officially an accessory after the fact [4] to priests and monks who have abused children sexually [5].
How can this pope be considered as the Vicar of Christ when his actions serve Satan's interests? This blogger believes that he cannot be the Vicar of Christ and that whoever he truly is, he is leading the papacy to Hell.
[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3441058/Pope-Francis-sends-1-000-new-hand-picked-super-confessors-forgive-sinned-badly-normally-pardoned-pontiff-himself.html
[2] Ibid.
[3] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/10/catholic-bishops-not-obliged-report-clerical-child-abuse-vatican-says
[4] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/accessory_after_the_fact
[5] "In most states [in the United States], child abuse [including child sexual abuse] may be charged as either a felony or a less serious offense depending on the circumstances." See http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/child-abuse-penalties-and-sentencing.html
Friday, February 5, 2016
Where God Begins
God begins where man's knowledge ends. Man's knowledge has ended before his existence. Indeed, man depends on a number of things that allows for his being that he cannot explain. For instance, he still does not know why gravity exists [1] and where life-giving water around the world comes from [2]. With this degree of ignorance, many continue to believe that there is not a God Who is the Creator of the universe. Until man is able to create, not procreate, another human with a soul, he is subordinate to God.
[1] http://www.universetoday.com/75705/where-does-gravity-come-from/
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2869018/Earth-s-water-did-NOT-come-comets-Rosetta-results-deepen-mystery-oceans-arrived.html
[1] http://www.universetoday.com/75705/where-does-gravity-come-from/
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2869018/Earth-s-water-did-NOT-come-comets-Rosetta-results-deepen-mystery-oceans-arrived.html
Friday, January 29, 2016
The Blindness Of Power
Some people have the ambition to achieve world domination. They apparently have the confidence in their ability to climb to the top of the human race and in their intellect to convince people to obey their set of principles. That, in this blogger's past opinion, would have been a grandiose dream for anyone to have. His opinion has changed recently because of his new-found awareness of how big the universe is relative to the size of the Milky Way, the galaxy of which the earth's solar system is a part and which itself is merely a speck of dust in the entire universe. [1], [2] The dream of ruling over a microscopic planet, earth, in whole universe makes both dreamer and the dream to dominate the world so very small.
The universe is enormous and is beyond man's ability to measure. [3] For the human mind to comprehend fully the size of the universe is nearly impossible. And that is just one universe. Can there be another universe? That is entirely possible.
Does this universe and any other that may exist have a Creator or is a universe a haphazard occurrence? As far as this blogger knows, galaxies conform to a certain set of laws that prevent them from colliding with one another at random like gas molecules [4], and planets within each of them also exist in some preordained order so that they also do not crash into each other like bumper cars driven by blind or blind-folded people in an amusement park. Accordingly, the only reasonable conclusion is that an ordered universe has a Creator.
Within that ordered universe, the Creator created man and placed man in the Milky Way galaxy, on the planet earth which was once the Garden of Eden. While man is important because man was created in the image of the Creator, God, the universe that man exists in is equally important because of its precise configurations allowing man to continue with his existence.
Being able to create laws that define the universe in which earth can exist, and a solar system that is well-ordered for earth to maintain a certain equilibrium in which man can exist, and man with a self-contained system of flesh and bones that can survive in harmony with what the earth provides, that is power.
Therefore, for those to want to rule the world ought to realize how insignificant they really are, how immaterial are their concerns relative to their existence on this planet, in this solar system, in this galaxy and in this universe and how blind their ambition for power truly is. [5]
[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-universe-is-scary#.jspaXn3oj
[2] http://io9.gizmodo.com/why-is-the-scale-of-the-universe-so-freakishly-large-1719048488
[3] http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/astronomers-discover-humongous-structure-one-ninth-size-observable-universe
[4] https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/kinth.html
[5] A small shift in something as basic as the magnitude, direction or consistency of gravitational pull affecting earth can bring about the demise of the entire human race. The possibility of instant mass extinction of man by any random movement of the other planets in the solar system knocking earth off its normal course, even without a fiery collision, makes the nuclear and hydrogen bombs and the rest of the less dramatic conflagrative build-ups that man uses to show power small and silly. From this perspective, man is truly nothing, nothing without God allowing for his existence, yet some think that they, when armed with conflagrations far more minuscule than the light that emits from the abdomen of fireflies in the not-so-large scheme of things (like the Milky Way galaxy within its yet-to-be-defined universe), have immense power. How ignorant can they be?
The universe is enormous and is beyond man's ability to measure. [3] For the human mind to comprehend fully the size of the universe is nearly impossible. And that is just one universe. Can there be another universe? That is entirely possible.
Does this universe and any other that may exist have a Creator or is a universe a haphazard occurrence? As far as this blogger knows, galaxies conform to a certain set of laws that prevent them from colliding with one another at random like gas molecules [4], and planets within each of them also exist in some preordained order so that they also do not crash into each other like bumper cars driven by blind or blind-folded people in an amusement park. Accordingly, the only reasonable conclusion is that an ordered universe has a Creator.
Within that ordered universe, the Creator created man and placed man in the Milky Way galaxy, on the planet earth which was once the Garden of Eden. While man is important because man was created in the image of the Creator, God, the universe that man exists in is equally important because of its precise configurations allowing man to continue with his existence.
Being able to create laws that define the universe in which earth can exist, and a solar system that is well-ordered for earth to maintain a certain equilibrium in which man can exist, and man with a self-contained system of flesh and bones that can survive in harmony with what the earth provides, that is power.
Therefore, for those to want to rule the world ought to realize how insignificant they really are, how immaterial are their concerns relative to their existence on this planet, in this solar system, in this galaxy and in this universe and how blind their ambition for power truly is. [5]
[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-universe-is-scary#.jspaXn3oj
[2] http://io9.gizmodo.com/why-is-the-scale-of-the-universe-so-freakishly-large-1719048488
[3] http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/astronomers-discover-humongous-structure-one-ninth-size-observable-universe
[4] https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/kinth.html
[5] A small shift in something as basic as the magnitude, direction or consistency of gravitational pull affecting earth can bring about the demise of the entire human race. The possibility of instant mass extinction of man by any random movement of the other planets in the solar system knocking earth off its normal course, even without a fiery collision, makes the nuclear and hydrogen bombs and the rest of the less dramatic conflagrative build-ups that man uses to show power small and silly. From this perspective, man is truly nothing, nothing without God allowing for his existence, yet some think that they, when armed with conflagrations far more minuscule than the light that emits from the abdomen of fireflies in the not-so-large scheme of things (like the Milky Way galaxy within its yet-to-be-defined universe), have immense power. How ignorant can they be?
Sunday, January 24, 2016
The Costs Of Original Sin
It is common knowledge that death is the result of Original Sin. Death is also the end of life, a finality to suffering of all kinds and where decrepitude and the process of dying are lengthy and difficult to endure, death could be a welcomed relief unless the soul is destined for Hell. Nobody knows if one's soul will go to Heaven or to Hell, therefore, it is better to endure whatever that may be left of life than to hurry the soul to Hell, if Hell is the soul's eternal destination. If during the final period of suffering, one awakens to the true meaning of salvation and accepts it with a genuine and contrite heart, asking for the forgiveness of one's sins, as well as the forgiveness of those who have committed wrongs, then hopefully one's soul may be saved from the torments of Hell. [1]
It is believed that suffering in life shortens the time one's soul spends in Purgatory, an intermediate and painful stop for a full and irrevocable cleansing, freely-willed, in order that the soul may enter Heaven.
The cost of Original Sin is not merely death, it is perhaps life itself, full of suffering in varying degrees punctuated with moments of true joy, serving as contrasting windows for Hell and Heaven.
Relative to eternity, life is a short journey, one that continues to be presented with even more temptations as knowledge increases, and one that continues to be given the Free Will to select among them. Many see the vast array of choices as advances in human intellect and capability, but this blogger sees them as multiplication of temptations, more new and improved paths that lead a sinner comfortably and luxuriously to Hell.
In other words, the high cost of death relative to life is no longer the one payment for Original Sin. The one-time payment has been modified, a long time ago, into an installment plan even though the final payment, death, remains unchanged. Now, each installment has become cheaper and thus affordable and accessible to everyone at any age where God is supplanted by social media, technology, virtual entertainment and, increasingly more and more sophisticated artificial intelligence. Anytime when one's life, or for that matter, the world at large, does not have God's presence, there is suffering, some perceptible, some imperceptible until it is too late.
[1] For those who do not believe in Hell, just look at what humans can imagine, especially the work of artists and those in the movie industry who are so effective in presenting graphic Hell-like images on canvas and on screen, then imagine such hellish scenes being infinitely worse. Once in Hell, Hell is no longer a childish pay-to-view entertainment but a real-time experience from which the soul can never escape--and what could that possibly feel like-- like a person who is continuously and forever gasping for oxygen but it is only available in the smallest amount so life cannot be lived and death cannot be had.
It is believed that suffering in life shortens the time one's soul spends in Purgatory, an intermediate and painful stop for a full and irrevocable cleansing, freely-willed, in order that the soul may enter Heaven.
The cost of Original Sin is not merely death, it is perhaps life itself, full of suffering in varying degrees punctuated with moments of true joy, serving as contrasting windows for Hell and Heaven.
Relative to eternity, life is a short journey, one that continues to be presented with even more temptations as knowledge increases, and one that continues to be given the Free Will to select among them. Many see the vast array of choices as advances in human intellect and capability, but this blogger sees them as multiplication of temptations, more new and improved paths that lead a sinner comfortably and luxuriously to Hell.
In other words, the high cost of death relative to life is no longer the one payment for Original Sin. The one-time payment has been modified, a long time ago, into an installment plan even though the final payment, death, remains unchanged. Now, each installment has become cheaper and thus affordable and accessible to everyone at any age where God is supplanted by social media, technology, virtual entertainment and, increasingly more and more sophisticated artificial intelligence. Anytime when one's life, or for that matter, the world at large, does not have God's presence, there is suffering, some perceptible, some imperceptible until it is too late.
[1] For those who do not believe in Hell, just look at what humans can imagine, especially the work of artists and those in the movie industry who are so effective in presenting graphic Hell-like images on canvas and on screen, then imagine such hellish scenes being infinitely worse. Once in Hell, Hell is no longer a childish pay-to-view entertainment but a real-time experience from which the soul can never escape--and what could that possibly feel like-- like a person who is continuously and forever gasping for oxygen but it is only available in the smallest amount so life cannot be lived and death cannot be had.
Friday, January 22, 2016
Free Will & Divine Intervention
God gave man Free Will. Interfering with it ruins it but when divine intervention occurs after Free Will has been fully realized, it is unaffected.
Divine intervention occurs more often than one realizes. When things are going well, nobody questions why. People are usually not conscious of and grateful for what God has given them, but when bad things happen, people start to question God and doubt God's existence because people do not expect to have bad experiences with regularity even though many often make the wrong choices by their own Free Will. The fact that so many live to see the next day with a degree of inner peace, to carry on as if nothing can go wrong, is very much a result of divine intervention. [1]
Some who do not believe in God think that divine intervention is nonsense, that daily life is daily, and that every day life will be similar to life the day before. That theory works until God stops intervening, and nothing is the same anymore. Life turns hellish, then God suddenly becomes relevant but only as an entity to be blamed. [2]
To be sure, life of a sinner is replete with misfortunes, some of them subtle, some not. To lessen the frequency and intensity of negative consequences of one's own misguided Free Will, and the evil Free Will of others [3], one ought to become aware of each divine intervention that takes place and say a prayer of gratitude.
[1] It seems like people who had killed and who had commanded a military to kill are able to continue to live out their days as if nothing is wrong. This blogger does not personally know these people but can imagine that they cannot be living the same lives they had before the killings. This blogger surmises that they are constantly haunted by their actions. Unable to obtain any inner peace at all, they may start painting and doing other things, but nothing they do that they believe to be therapeutic provide permanent relief. They could lose sleep and become obsessive. Divine intervention is probably missing from their lives entirely and their individual hell has already started.
[2] Many blame God for natural disasters like earthquakes, droughts, tsunamis and floods that claim people's lives. Those who do need to realize that natural disasters are natural to this planet earth and these natural occurrences only become disasters when humans lives and properties are lost. Humans by their Free Will have chosen to build tall buildings in earthquake zones, live in deserts and on drought-prone lands, near beaches and rivers, build communities in low-lying and below sea-level terrains and populate the earth and exploit its natural resources at a rate faster than the time it takes for the earth to regenerate, destabilizing the planet's delicate balances, is that God's fault?
[3] Among the evil-doers are the war mongers of the world, the regime changers, the killers (regime changers are also killers -- ISIL, for instance, is a regime changer), the market and money manipulators, the unconscionable polluters, and in each category their allies.
Divine intervention occurs more often than one realizes. When things are going well, nobody questions why. People are usually not conscious of and grateful for what God has given them, but when bad things happen, people start to question God and doubt God's existence because people do not expect to have bad experiences with regularity even though many often make the wrong choices by their own Free Will. The fact that so many live to see the next day with a degree of inner peace, to carry on as if nothing can go wrong, is very much a result of divine intervention. [1]
Some who do not believe in God think that divine intervention is nonsense, that daily life is daily, and that every day life will be similar to life the day before. That theory works until God stops intervening, and nothing is the same anymore. Life turns hellish, then God suddenly becomes relevant but only as an entity to be blamed. [2]
To be sure, life of a sinner is replete with misfortunes, some of them subtle, some not. To lessen the frequency and intensity of negative consequences of one's own misguided Free Will, and the evil Free Will of others [3], one ought to become aware of each divine intervention that takes place and say a prayer of gratitude.
[1] It seems like people who had killed and who had commanded a military to kill are able to continue to live out their days as if nothing is wrong. This blogger does not personally know these people but can imagine that they cannot be living the same lives they had before the killings. This blogger surmises that they are constantly haunted by their actions. Unable to obtain any inner peace at all, they may start painting and doing other things, but nothing they do that they believe to be therapeutic provide permanent relief. They could lose sleep and become obsessive. Divine intervention is probably missing from their lives entirely and their individual hell has already started.
[2] Many blame God for natural disasters like earthquakes, droughts, tsunamis and floods that claim people's lives. Those who do need to realize that natural disasters are natural to this planet earth and these natural occurrences only become disasters when humans lives and properties are lost. Humans by their Free Will have chosen to build tall buildings in earthquake zones, live in deserts and on drought-prone lands, near beaches and rivers, build communities in low-lying and below sea-level terrains and populate the earth and exploit its natural resources at a rate faster than the time it takes for the earth to regenerate, destabilizing the planet's delicate balances, is that God's fault?
[3] Among the evil-doers are the war mongers of the world, the regime changers, the killers (regime changers are also killers -- ISIL, for instance, is a regime changer), the market and money manipulators, the unconscionable polluters, and in each category their allies.
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Man's Ego
Man's ego feeds on pride and pride is Satan's favorite sin [1]. Thus, the bigger the ego, the more pride one has and the more likely would one's soul have a reserved space in the express lane to Hell.
Individuals have egos, as do groups of people, institutions and nations. When the collective ego of a group of people within an institution or a nation is not aligned with that of other groups in the same institution or nation or other institutions or nations, there will be entrenched and lasting conflict.
The ego thinks it is always right, believes what it does is always just, desires everything that benefits and pleasures itself but lacks humility because humility diminishes the ego while perfect humility extinguishes it. Jesus had perfect humility and therefore He had no ego.
It is no coincidence that Christ is the Prince of Peace for he who has no ego is always at peace. Whoever is able to exist within the peace of Christ has no ego and no pride, but few exist in that realm who serve all with a pure heart.
On the contrary, many people, institutions and nations exist to serve their egos with arrogance at best, and with deceit, hypocrisy, ruthlessness and depravity at worst. This world is filled with egoistical pride, from mildly to severely sinful in degree, which turns it into a Hell hole in which man himself must suffer. Those who had created, are creating and are planning to create new or bigger Hell holes on this planet ought not to be concerned with their transitory earthly existence but to fear instead for their souls' eternal torment in Hell.
[1] http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/what-is-the-devils-favorite-sin-pride-says-an-exorcist/
Individuals have egos, as do groups of people, institutions and nations. When the collective ego of a group of people within an institution or a nation is not aligned with that of other groups in the same institution or nation or other institutions or nations, there will be entrenched and lasting conflict.
The ego thinks it is always right, believes what it does is always just, desires everything that benefits and pleasures itself but lacks humility because humility diminishes the ego while perfect humility extinguishes it. Jesus had perfect humility and therefore He had no ego.
It is no coincidence that Christ is the Prince of Peace for he who has no ego is always at peace. Whoever is able to exist within the peace of Christ has no ego and no pride, but few exist in that realm who serve all with a pure heart.
On the contrary, many people, institutions and nations exist to serve their egos with arrogance at best, and with deceit, hypocrisy, ruthlessness and depravity at worst. This world is filled with egoistical pride, from mildly to severely sinful in degree, which turns it into a Hell hole in which man himself must suffer. Those who had created, are creating and are planning to create new or bigger Hell holes on this planet ought not to be concerned with their transitory earthly existence but to fear instead for their souls' eternal torment in Hell.
[1] http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/what-is-the-devils-favorite-sin-pride-says-an-exorcist/
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