CATHOLICS- ABSOLUTISTS TOWARDS THE LOVING OF GOD - THE EXTREMISM OF THEIR POSITION
Baltimore Catechism, 109. Q. What is Charity?
A. Charity is a Divine virtue by which we love God above all things for His own
sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.
St Augustine of Hippo: "Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will
follow. Thou mayest say, "I love only God, God the Father." Wrong! If Thou
lovest Him, thou dost not love Him alone; but if thou lovest the Father, thou
lovest also the Son. Or thou mayest say, "I love the Father and I love the Son,
but these alone; God the Father and God the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ who
ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of the Father, the Word by
whom all things were made, the Word who was made flesh and dwelt amongst us;
only these do I love." Wrong again! If thou lovest the Head, thou lovest also
the members; if thou lovest not the members, neither dost thou love the Head."
He is saying that all love is really love of God. That is how he can say that
those who love only the Father also love Jesus by default though he is not the
Father.
Human nature does not need God to justify the theory of right and wrong. It is
said that God is the only justification. We are built to do without him and it
for we need to fit in reasonably with others and who cares what our motive is as
long as it is that one? Religion tries to get us to base right and wrong on God
or more correctly belief in God. All that can do is discourage us and maybe rob
us of our whole potential for it is unnatural. It implies too that we must put
consciously thinking of the theory first to test ourselves to make sure we are
in accord and harmony with it. The God botherer when lives are to be saved and
every second counts will pause anyway to check out his state. And if the God
theory is false, it takes away from the goodness of our intentions. What would
you think of a person who would not do good unless they were commanded to do it
by a person or a principle?
Jesus Christ was asked what the greatest commandment was in the Old Testament.
He said that it was the command to love God with all one's heart and soul and
mind and strength. He said the second greatest commandment was to love one’s
neighbour as oneself. As Jesus is claimed by the Catholic Church to be God, his
teaching is binding and irreversible and irrevocable.
Modernist Catholics who know that Jesus taught an evil doctrine claim, "Loving
God alone means merely that you keep the commandments of God ie always do the
right thing." So in other words, Jesus didn't mean what he said. Why didn't he
say keep the commandments if that is all he meant? Jesus said if you love God
you will keep his commandments. But that does not mean that loving God is a
synonym for keeping the commandments. Nobody would say, "Love God alone", when
they mean only, "Keep his commandments". Life cannot function if we are going to
be that unclear. The Modernists are liars and deceivers.
Also, they are really saying that the commandments of God matter not God. It is
therefore blasphemous. It is stupid as well. God commands that one day a week be
set apart for worship. It would be mad for God to command that commandments
matter not him and then to command something that suggests that he matters.
They quote Jesus saying that whoever does not feed the hungry etc is not feeding
him. They say this proves that he was declaring that the love of God and the
love of others is identical. This is nonsense. If you would starve a person you
would starve God if you could. Jesus said the two loves are related - he said no
more than that.
God makes you feel less good about helping others. If it is more important to
love God than myself then my natural inclination to love myself and others is a
sin. We should learn about love from loving God and experience his love and not
from loving other people and experiencing their love. The true Christian
experiences God in the love received from others not as coming from them but as
coming from God through them. Children learn about love by loving their parents
not God. Nature teaches them love.
The Church may say that love of God and love of neighbour go together. Jesus
state that whoever loves God keeps God's commandments. Does this imply that
loving God is just another way of saying obeying him? No. If you prove your love
for God by obeying it does not follow that love and obeying are the same thing.
They are just co-dependent.
If you love God with all your heart or more than anything, it would be hard to
see if you really love your neighbour.
If you love God passionately you can’t see if you love others properly. Love
blinds.
Jesus said that you are to love God with all your mind and that is supposed to
prove that he agreed with us thinking for ourselves and reasoning. But if you
tell your wife you love her with all your mind do you mean anything like that?
No. Love God with all your mind does not mean God approves of your reasoning or
logic. It really means you let God tell you how to reason and think. It forbids
you to think for yourself.
The thought that you love God by loving your neighbour for it is his will is
incorrect. God and his will cannot be one and the same thing.
Christianity urges the love of God because he is good and not because he is
pleasant or good for you. And God even if he is good is not necessarily good for
you. So you are to adore God for his own sake and not for your own. Love of God
should be a scary thing - love in general is but love for God should be
terrifying.
What about the thought, "The more you love your neighbour the more you love God
for he loves them"? If you value your neighbour because you love God in reality
it is only God you value. If you lose your faith and your goodness to your
neighbour is all about God then clearly you will start to hate or maltreat your
neighbour.
The Catholic doctrine that our love for God is measured by how hard we try to
keep his commandments is ridiculous and off-putting and it is no wonder Catholics
are so rebellious. What would we think of a person who said that a wife’s love
for her husband is measured by her obedience to her husband? We obey the law but
does that mean we really love it or trust it? Your love for God would be
measured by how much you try to be like him because you admire him and not
because he lays down laws for you to obey.
Laws that consider people not God are against God. No system of law can be
perfectly just. Not even God’s. Nor is it meant to be. God’s law is necessarily
only perfect under the circumstances. Every law hurts some innocent.
Love should not be an obligation. You cannot obligate anybody to love. Those who
say that those who reject love will go to Hell forever for there is no love
there are blackmailing those who fail to love. And if you love out of fear that
is not love at all! To present people with a God who is love or whose law is
love is to oppress them. It accuses people who don’t make a bigger effort to
love of being partly partial to the everlasting agonies of Hell.
A God who commands us to love him is denying that love is voluntary. Yet
religion says that it is because love is voluntary that he has to put up with us
doing evil and unloving things. A God who commands love is denying this and he
has no excuse for letting us suffer and his worshippers are merely covering up
for his crimes.
If you put God first, that only means you love him and love others but you love
him the most. You do not give him all your heart.
This commandment to love God with all our heart and strength does not tell us to
put God first. Rather it tells us that all the loving we do must be for his
sake. We love our neighbour to please God and not the neighbour. This love does
not really value the neighbour except as a means to please God. If we feel
affection for another, we must make sure that it is only allowed for God’s
benefit. So strictly speaking, you are to love God alone.
Is it not a contradiction to tell people that they must love God with all their
hearts and souls and powers and all their mind and to love their neighbour as
themselves? After all, you cannot really value your neighbour if you only help
them as a means to pleasing God not them. The solution is that the commandments
mean that we are to treat our neighbours as God says they should be treated.
They are valued not for themselves but for God.
God roughly means the supernatural being that is entitled to your concern and
your love.
Does this mean that God should be good or believed to be good? It means he
should be believed to be good more than anything else. It is supposedly good to
love God alone and to love our neighbour just for him.
There is greater heroism in loving a God that is evil than one that is good.
The teaching that loving God takes priority says to the severely depressed, "It
is more important that you try to love God than that you get better." Indeed the
Christian should say that if they really believe in loving God primarily or
totally. The Christian then cannot agree with the atheist who will state, "One
thing a depressed person does not need to hear is that their getting better is
not of supreme importance to God or believers". They will rebel against the
knowledge and instinct that the atheist is right.
The Christians do a big job of mocking and blaspheming God. Thus they are in no
position to complain if atheists blaspheme God. And the atheists cannot intend
to blaspheme God for they don't believe in him. What they mock is the idea of
God. The Christians slander us unbelievers by saying we are blasphemers.
Christianity makes such serious and possibly dangerous and shamelessly dangerous
claims that every believer would need to be an expert in philosophy and theology
to justify believing in those claims.
The Ten Commandments teach the evil notion that we must be motivated to help
others for God's sake and not their own.
The first commandment says God is the Lord and there must be no other god
worshipped besides him. The commandment does not say there are no other gods. It
says only that no other god must be worshipped. Worship means declare the worth
of. To worship God alone means you consider nothing worthy or valuable but him.
The second commandment says that the people must not bow down before images. It
is said that this commandment is not a ban on worshipping other gods because the
first commandment already dealt with that. It is merely saying that images must
not be used in the worship of God. The images are not worshipped as God (how can
they be?) but used to help people worship God. The message is that we must not
confuse anything human with God or let it limit or determine our view of God.
This is another way of asserting that we value God not what is human.
The better we love God the more we should become like him. If you admire
somebody's character, that is the starting point for becoming like them in your
own character. But God is not like us. He is not a human being. Even if God has
become man it follows that he is still the same God who is not like us. His
becoming man has not changed him - he has only taken on an additional nature.
What use is such an example? We cannot become like a God who is not like us.
Trying to take him as a role-model only means we hinder the development of our
own character.
The central position of God makes Christianity an evil system.