Your characterization of the document is belied by what you quote. It does not say that only Catholics go to heaven
Sorry Neo , I didn't want to put you in the role of apologist for this excitingly new and refreshing, liberal document.
You might have missed the last paragraph:
" God's saving plan for all humanity, it says, was "realized in the mystery of the incarnation, death and resurrection of the Son of God" and "no one, therefore, can enter into communion with God except through Christ, by the working of the Holy Spirit. "
As before , when you pointed out the age and datedness of the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia article from 1908 trying to depict Hindu/ Brahmanism and Buddhism only copying Christianity....
Now we do know that this was totally false, and very nearly a complete distortion of the facts.
Are we going to believe them now when they say or admit that there was a story of Krishna , an incarnation of the Christ mentioned in the Gita already predating the birth of their own "Christ"?
which is it Neo ? Was it Jesus ? Or was it Krishna & Buddha that came upon the scene first ?
Which weakened Empire used the story of the Crucifixion and the story of piousness and love and a Christ to unify itself ?
This so called "Mother Church" , is nothing of the sort, but effectively lied and used the Roman Empire to exploit the world with all this false piousness and doctrine that is based on pure ---->Myth and men's imaginations .
So I expect them to be brave, Neo. Very brave...and face the truth ...and not wind up becoming more out on the "fringe" than they already are. .... far too slowly admitting the years of distorting the truth and their own lack of divine guidance.
Mars |