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To: bacchus_ii who wrote (7990)	4/10/2005 9:50:29 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

" but I also hate all religions, they are all organization with only one purpose: exploit the human being need for spirituality in order to control and fool them. It's men's exploitation of man in "god's" name. Bullshit to me." Unfortunately, there's a lot of truth in what you say. There has been much abuse, hypocrisy and sin in all Christian denominations--particularly in the Catholic and Orthodox since they are the oldest. Since the Church is made up of sinful men, it should be expected. The weakness and sinfulness of our fallen nature are reflected in the human activities in the name of the Church. Despite this human weakness in the Church the living mystical and spiritual components of the Church remain pure and divine since they are of the Holy Spirit and Christ. The evil actions of men may at times obscure this powerful dynamic reality of God in the Church, but an honest and truthful spirit will always, in the end, discern his presence. Christ created and ordained the Church with his own life and now the Holy Spirit leads it and remains in it. The weaknesses that you observe come when Church leaders refuse to obey and follow the promptings of Holy Spirit and follow their own wounded wills rather than the divine and perfect will of God. Judas Iscariot was the first example of this rebellion in the Church and he refused to repent. The ugliness of his evil betrayal and lies should not obscure the divine and saving nature of Christ and his Church. Peter also rebelled and renounced Christ three times, but in the end Peter repented and the Holy Spirit used him to bring the divine life of Christ to tens of thousands. We should focus on the edifying words and lives of Paul and Peter and the lives of the other Apostles rather than the evil of Judas Iscariot. Christ and his Church offer you forgiveness of sins and the divine life of God. Do not let the clever distractions of Satan in the Church blind you to the reality Christ in his mystical Body --the Church. The Church that Christ created, despite the weak humanity that inhabits her, continues offer you salvation and forgiveness of sins. PS---I am still meditating on an old post of yours where you equate the Christian Church with Talmudic Judaism. The difference here is the fact that Talmudic Judaism was created on a false foundation of: 1. Rejection of Christ as Messiah 2. Obedience to the law for righteousness. The Christian Church was established on ultimate reality--God becoming man and sacrificing himself for the sins of man. Man redemption, his righteousness, is established by faith in Christ's Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection, not on obedience to the law. In short, righteousness by faith and not by the works of the law. God used the history of ancient Israel and the Law given to Moses to prove to humanity the impossibility of righteousness through obedience to the Law. Ancient Israel failed miserably in obeying the Law. The Law was used as a school master to teach mankind that goodness or righteousness could only come through faith. Begin by searching out the reality of Christ by reading and meditating on the Gospels and New Testament with an open heart and mind---a mind without prejudice. Look back to the original source of the Christian Faith and don't be distracted by the weakness and sins of men.