Please read our Original Proposal Teilhardian Evolution and the Amazonian Synod: The Nest of the Antichrist âYou shall be as Gods, knowing good and evilâ (Gen 3:5) Introduction Teilhardian evolutionary theory, which is the dominant theology of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Pope Francis (see our article The Third Sorrowful Mystery: The Crowning withâŠ
Quoted also from the article:
St. Thomas writes:
âI answer that, God is in all things; not, indeed, as part of their essence, nor as an accident; but as an agent is present to that upon which it worksâŠNow since God causes this effect in things not only when they first begin to be, but as long as they are preserved in being; as light is caused in the air by the sun as long as the air remains illuminatedâŠ. Therefore as long as a thing has being, God must be present to it, according to its mode of being Hence it must be that God is in all things, and innermostly.â (ST I, Q. 8, A.1).
The created being and existence of all things is both initially and continuously the fruit of Godâs creative power and âworkâ, and therefore there is nothing which possesses being outside of God. All of creation, while it is âdistinctâ from God, yet in no way is separate from God, and therefore does nothing to compromise His Infinitude.
Second, since we were created out of nothing, our created being is in no way to be ontologically identified with God, or as being âpartâ of God, or as an âemanationâ of God, or of containing anything in its nature which is divine. Our existence is wholly âby God and in Godâ, but this âinâ God has nothing in it which speaks of us as possessing even one iota of the divine nature. We are truly created out of nothing, and this âout of nothingâ precludes us possessing anything divine in our nature. It also makes absolutely inappropriate any use of the concept of âemanationâ when speaking of creation in its relationship to God. We need be deeply suspicious of the thought and writing of any person who claims to be an orthodox Catholic while at the same time employing any language which speaks of âemanationsâ from God. And this is true no matter how vociferous may be his or her claim to believing in creation ex nihilo.
To summarize (and emphasize): it is only the Catholic doctrine of creation ex nihilo, when properly understood, which enables us to understand that while being absolutely ontologically distinct from God, we are in no way separate from God. Without this clear understanding of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo, the fundamental relationship between man and God necessarily becomes distorted and perverted, and the long trek of Gnosticism down through history, in all its varied forms, begins.
The âclassicalâ forms of Christian Gnosticism of the earliest centuries comprise a vast array of syncretizations between Christianity and various forms of pagan and pre-Christian Gnostic cosmologies and mythologies. A number of theories have been propounded concerning the ultimate source of Gnosticism â India, Egypt, Syria, Persia. The solution to this question of origins matters nothing to our present inquiry. In fact, it would seem that the basic intellectual perversions integral to Gnosticism reach to such a depth of manâs fallen nature as to indicate its presence, in one form or another, in every culture which has managed to conceive of an Infinite God or Absolute.
All forms of Gnosticism are pantheistic. As Fr. Arendzen points out in his Catholic Encyclopedia article, all the early forms of Christian Gnosticism postulated what really amounts to some sort of âdecayâ in the Godhead (thus the contradiction inherent in these systems) in order to account for a finite world existing alongside an allegedly infinite Being. In effect, early Christian Gnosticism filled the âspaceâ between God and man with a bewildering company of emanations or births of lesser beings which account for this âdecayâ away from the Absolute, and thus the existence of a finite world. And since the finite worldâs existence is due to births or emanations from the Godhead, all of creation itself, and especially man, must be considered to possess at least a âsparkâ of the divine within its created nature (thus the pantheism). The entire concept of salvation then becomes a matter of âreturnâ of the entire cosmos to the Godhead â this return being achieved through what is usually a secret or esoteric gnosis or knowledge of this divine origin.”
via Teilhardian Evolution and the Amazon Synod: The Nest of the Antichrist â Rosary to the Interior: For the Purification of the Church
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Revolting Hollywood Threatens Georgia
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Filmmaking talent threatens to boycott state over pro-life law
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