Friday, July 29, 2016

Origin of Roman Catholic Church- 19

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Christians under Roman Catholic Church believe that Jesus is the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, referred to as the "Old Testament" in Christianity. The foundation of Christian theology is expressed in the early Christian ecumenical creeds, which contain claims predominantly accepted by followers of the Christian faith. These professions state that,
"Jesus suffered. He died, he was buried, and was resurrected from the dead to open heaven to those who believe in him and trust him for the remission of their sins (salvation). They further maintain that Jesus' bodily ascended into heaven where he rules and reins with God the Father. Most denominations teach that Jesus will return to judge all humans, living and dead, and grant eternal life to his followers". We must note that these claims made by Church are not found any where in the teachings of Jesus. These are new creations of Church to promote its position in the followers of Jesus. Present practice of church shows deep influence of Judaism on it.

He is considered the model of a virtuous life, and both the revealer and physical incarnation of God. Christians call the message of Jesus Christ the "Gospel" (means, good news) and hence refer to the earliest written accounts of his ministry as gospels.

Now if we know that Jesus did not die then on the cross and he did not come out of any tomb but he went on his feet to East in search of the Lost tribe; the whole treatment of present Catholic Church becomes a hoax. Even though there are many important differences of interpretation and opinion of the Bible on which Christianity is based, Christians share a set of beliefs that they hold as essential to their faith. Therefore, due to this it has become a prestige issue about acceptance of the facts of history that Jesus did not die on Cross but continued to survive for many years thereafter. If Church accepts this fact, they will have to reply to its many followers about how this argument can apply in the new situation. We find that the story of Jesus dying on Cross and later buried and the story of resurrection was originally concocted to keep Jew priesthood from pestering Jesus further and that was done under guidance of Roman soldiers under General Pilate. Had that been not done; the Jew priesthood would come to find Jesus and try to kill him again. Roman Catholic Church continued with that story, as it was convenient for them to accept it. In this way, the truth was waved away for the benefit of Church.

The Church firmly believes that all its followers are sinners. Actually to condemn all people as sinners is in itself a blasphemy. For that, Church will have to explain what it means by sin and sinner. We have many different definitions of these terms sin and sinner. Nobody can give an authentic definition for this term, some say not accepting creed of Christianity is sin and one who does it is the sinner. As per Islam not to accept five pillar creed is sin. As per Hindu belief indulging in six passions particularly Anger (Krodha), Boastfulness or pride (Maada) and Jealousy envy (Matsar) is sin and the one who does it is sinner. In Jain belief, giving trouble to others (inflicting pain to body and or mind) as well as hurting oneself and amassing wealth is sin and the one who does it is sinner. In secular environment we accept sin is that act which violets principles of goodness and encourages evil ideas is sin and the one who does it is sinner. Forsaking goodness seems to be the main core substance when sin becomes the issue in all religions as well as secularism but it is mentioned differently. Jesus has also called people to stick to principles of righteousness. That clearly shows that the definition of sin by Jesus very much agrees with that given in secularism.

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