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Show 114: Original Sin · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, you're half welcome. Today's show been late today. You remember in
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yesterday's show I was recording with this huge storm came up and yeah, well
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for about I don't even know twelve hours plus we had fifty mile prior winds
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and gus I think they said is sixty nine. Well into like five in
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the morning there was just like stuff falling on the roof and power was blinking
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in out, So I don't even much sleep. Then today a lot of
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cleanup was done and a lot more will have to be done because it looks
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like a freaking hurricane has hit and there's just limbs and stuff down everywhere.
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So I'm very, very tired. I'm going to try to keep this one
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short. We just want to finish up yesterday's podcast on the nature of the
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creation and nature of man and the immortality and nature of the soul. But
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as always, we'll start with radio replies. The person asks, yet,
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surely the only thing wrong is to do wrong? Really vague statement, isn't
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it. I mean, who defines right and wrong? Well, the pre's
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answer, and is not one doing wrong? When he refuses to bother about
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doctrinal belief? What did Christ say? He that believes in me shall be
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saved. Why did he send the apostles to teach doctrine? Not only are
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good works required, but also true faith. A person says christian is a
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thing, christian is not a thing to be proved. It is a life
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to be lived. The answer that is taking refuge incredulity. Every rational man,
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if he does a thing, should know why he does it. Moreover,
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Christianity is a set of truth to be believed in as well as to
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be believed. It imposes obligations upon the intelligence, as well as upon the
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will and the passions. Jesus said, repent and believe in the Gospel.
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But before a reasonable man believes, he must either prove the doctrine true in
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itself, or at least that God has revealed it. Then he knows that
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it must be true, though he himself does not fully comprehend it. To
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say that God is indifferent as to whether a man is Protestant or Catholic goes
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very close to blasphemy. If he revealed the doctrines of Protestantism, he could
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not possibly be pleased with one who would deliberately accept to be the opposite.
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By embracing Catholicism, and the person says, there is both good and bad
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in all churches. And they answer, if you mean that there are good
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and bad men in all religion, you're right. But if you mean that
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the teachings of all churches, including the Catholic Church, are partly true and
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partially false, you are wrong. The teachings of all non Catholic churches are
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partly true and partly false. Partly true for a religion consisting wholy of error
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could not exist partly false, because all non Catholic churches are a denial that
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Christ made a sufficient provision for a church he established. But not a single
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false doctrine is to be found in the official teaching of the Catholic Church,
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which is the work not of man but of God. If a man is
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obliged to accept the truth, it is in its entirety, and not a
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fragment of the truth. He is obliged to accept the Catholic Church as his
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guide. And the person responds, Protestants know that no more is needed than
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prayer in their own hearts. They answer, few Protestants would thank you for
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that dreadful description of their religion. Nothing more as necessary. Do what you
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like, but say that of prayer in your own heart. Also had christ
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one doctrine to give, namely, say a prayer in your own heart.
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He went a very strange way about teaching that doctrine. Yes, that that's
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a very modern Interestingly, there's nineteen thirties. It's a very modern Protestant attitude.
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Probably would have been quite the minority opinion at the time. You certainly
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would not have found that in traditional Lutheran Anglican Presbyterian certainly. No. Yeah,
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Interestingly, anyway, modernism was creeping in in the nineteen thirties. Well,
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obviously it was as the whole world was about to be set on fire
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by Nazis and Soviets and everything. Well, I mean the Soviets were already
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there, but they weren't well, as of yet threatening the world. I
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should say, the Communists were. They were not as of yet threatening the
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world with atheism. And you know what is the opposite side of the coin
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to atheism, Well, it actually is not orthodox Christianity by any means,
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because atheism opposes all religion. The flip side of the coin to atheism is
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actually that same kind of unitarian universalist all religion is valid well, that's sort
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of the opposite of no religion is valid, right, So all right,
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let's get into follows. For Rago talking about original sin. The story of
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the fall of Man is true, not a mere fable. This is the
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general opinion of theologians. God imposed on man in Paradise a precept. He
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forbade him to eat of the fruit of one of the trees which stood in
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the midst of the garden of Eden. The fruit of the tree of good
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and evil was not bann in of itself for God and not place anything there
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that was evil. In Paradise, it was only bad and injurious to man,
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because it was forbidden. By obedience to this precept. God intended that
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Adam and Eve should marrit eternal happiness. It was the intention of God to
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bestow upon our first parents eternal happiness and inherence. It was to be theirs
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as children of God, but as a happiness that has earned is a greater
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happiness than one, and one of greater value than if it was bestowed without
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any action deserving of it. God, in his goodness, decreed that man
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should earn it as a reward of obedience. If man had not transgressed the
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command of God, he would have passed without pain and without death, from
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the earthly into the celestial paradise. The posterity of Adam would have come into
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existence like him in a state of original justice. They would have died as
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Adam died if they had sin like him, but the sin would not have
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passed on to their children. For Adam alone was a point the head and
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representative to the human race. Man allowed himself to be led astray by the
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devil and transgress the precept of his creator. The devil was envious of the
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happiness of our first parents. By the envy of the devil, death came
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into the world. That's from the Book of Wisdom, and one of those
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books where as always say, if you don't have that book in your Bible,
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you need a better Bible. The devil was a murderer from the beginning.
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That's John eighty four. He deceived Eve by a lie, hence our
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Lord calls him the father of lies. John also John eight four. He
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took a visible form because of a mere internal suggestion, would have had no
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power to influence the mind of our first parents in their state of original justice.
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He took the form of a serpent, because God would allow him to
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take no other, and the serpent was a fit emblem of his cunning and
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poisonous wickedness. Saint Augustine tells us that Adam and Eve had already admitted the
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beginnings of evil by thinking little of God and allowing themselves to be distracted by
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visible and palpable things. This was the occasion of temptation. Their great happiness
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had made them unwary, and Eve foolishly lingered near the tree of knowledge of
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good and evil and listened to the serpent instead of turning away at once.
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The common tradition among the fathers is that Adam was created on Friday and fell
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on the falling Friday, at the same hour at which our Lord on good
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Friday died upon the cross. The transgression of the precept of God had disastrous
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consequences, and man lost sanctifying grace and all his supernatural gifts, and also
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suffered injuries, both in soul and body. The disobedience of our first parents
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received this severe punishment because the law given them was one that it was easy
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for them to obey, and because they had such a high degree of knowledge.
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The sin they committed was a mortal sin, it would not have been
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necessary for God himself to die upon the cross in order to expiate it.
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From the cost of the remedy, we may judge the deadly nature of the
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wound. Just as the man who fell among thieves on the road to Jericho
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was robbed of his goods and also sorely wounded. So man was robbed by
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Satan of his supernatural gifts and was sorely wounded in his natural gifts. In
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other words, the supernatural likeness to God was lost, and his whole nature
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a body and soul alike, was disfigured and weakened. Original sin injured the
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soul of man in the following ways. His understanding was darkened, his will
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was weakened and made prone to evil. He lost supernatural grace and thus became
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displeasing to God and could no more enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. His
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understanding was darkened, i e. He had not the same knowledge of the
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nature of God, of the will of God, the end of life,
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et cetera. His will was weakened sin, for by sin, the harmony
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between his spiritual and his sensible faculties was destroyed, so that the inclinations of
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his senses, no longer submitted to the revolt of the domination of his reason,
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the flesh rebelled against the spirit, and punishment for man's rebellion against God.
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Hence, Saint Paul says, I see another law in my members fighting
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against the law of my mind Romans seven twenty three. The flesh lusteth against
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the spirit Galatians five, p. Seventeen. Henceforward, man's nature was drawn
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toward the things of sense, as iron is drawn by the power of a
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magnet. Many other evil tendencies also arose in him. Doubt in the goodness
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of God, his truth and justice, vanity and pride, etc. Eve,
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who had fancied that she was going to become like God, condemned herself
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in her posterity to foolish curiosity, to the love of dress and ill tim
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That's all hard when to say, lookquacosity, loquaciousness is over talkativeness, and
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this would be low quosity, I guess would be the way you would pronounce
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it. L o q uac I t y loquacity loquacity. I'll go with
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loquacity, not a word I've ever pronounced before in my life. Man has
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not lost the freedom of his will by original sin, else he would not
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have the consciousness of being able to exercise choice or the feeling of remorse when
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he had yielded. Our first parents also lost sanctifying grace, the justice and
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holiness in which they were created, and the friendship of God which accompanied it.
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He who dies still burdened with original sin cannot see the face of God
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in heaven, but he does not suffer the pains of hell unless he has
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committed grievous sin himself. Children who die unbaptized or this is old old doctrine,
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okay, in follows Sarrago's time, it was believed positive never a statement
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given one way or the other officially by the church that children who died on
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baptized couldn't go to heaven. We were in limbo. The church now says
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that is absolutely not true, that they would be baptized had the knowledge of
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God, and as they are completely innocent, they go directly to heaven.
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So we'll just skip this next line because it obviously provides undue upset to you
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know, parents who lose children early in life or before they're born. We
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have to do that. In radio replies as well. From nineteen thirty one,
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there's actually been some Marian apparitions which validate that she takes care of unborn
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children and children who die in emphasis. So we don't need to we don't
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need to go down the road original sin did not. Original sin did injury
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to the body of man in the following ways. He became subject to sickness
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and death. He was shut out from paradise and had to labor and suffer.
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Woman became subject to man. The forces of nature and the lower animals
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had power to injure man. Lastly, the devil had permission from God to
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tempt him to sin and to injure him in his temporal possessions. Man was
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condemned to dye in consequence of original sin. God said to Adam and the
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sweat of thy brow, shall they eat thy bread until thou return to the
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eternal, Until they return to the earth from which thou wast taken. For
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dust thou art, and to dust thou shall return Genesis three, nineteen.
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Of these words, the church reminds us on Ash Wednesday, when the priest
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places the ashes on the heads of the faithful. Death is the worst consequence
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of original sin, but the death of the body is but the sensible image
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of the terrible and eternal death of the soul, from which man can only
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be delivered through the redemption of Christ and by penance. The exclusion from the
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earthly paradise also had its meaning, and was meant to remind man how his
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sin excludes him from the celestial paradise of heaven. Man had also to labor
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hard. God said to Adam, cursed is the earth in thy work with
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labor, and toil, thou shalt eat the fruit thereof all the days of
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thy life Genesis three seventeen. Because of this curse, the Church makes use
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of various blessings on material things. Woman had to be subject to her husband
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because she had led him into disobedience, and had to bear children in sorrow
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because she had involved them in the sorrow. To involved them in sorrow through
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her disobedience. The lower animals also receive power to injure man, and he
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had revolved against his God, his master, so it was only just that
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they should rebel against him. The devil has also a great influence over a
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man, in accordance with the saying of holy scripture, by whom a man
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is overcome of the same. Also as he made a slave tewod Peter two
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nineteen. He can tempt them more easily and lead them into mortal sin.
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He can also injure them in the worldly goods references Job. He is the
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prince of this world and has the empire of death he Brews two fourteen.
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A heavy yoke lies upon the shoulder of the shoulders of the children of Adam,
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from the day of their birth to the day of their death Ecclesiastes.
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The punishments that God sent upon man were a valuable medicine to counter the effects
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of sin. Sickness, death, the necessity of labor, and the subjection
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of men to one another were intended to check the pride and sensuality. Man
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was driven out of paradise, lest these should eat of the tree of life
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and so live forever in this valley of tears. His management was also an
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effective means of leading him to penance. The sin of our first parents,
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with all its evil consequences, has passed on to their descendants. Not merely
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the consequence of sin, but sin itself has in some sense passed on from
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Adam to his descendants. So it is true of all of them that they
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have sinned in Adam. If it were not so, God could not,
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with justice have visited that sin upon them. We are all by nature children
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of wrath, it so Ephesians two three. But we participate in the sin
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of Adam, as members of the body, partake in the sin that the
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soul commits through their agency by putting them in motion to perform a sinful act.
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Suppose a king bestows an a state upon one of his servants, so
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the condition that the servant remained faithful to him, he is unfaithful, and
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thereby loses the estate not only he, but also his whole posterity. So
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it is with original sin. We must also remember that original sin and all
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its consequences are not anything positive, but are the absence of that which would
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otherwise be present. It is the absence of the supernatural grace of God,
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of original justice, with all the privileges and perfections that it carries with it.
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When we say that we have sin and atom, this does not mean
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we have imitated adam sin by some positive active of our own. All children
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of sin and atom, even though absolutely free from any personal active sin,
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the sin that we inherit from Adam is called original sin. We are retained
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with sin, before we draw our first breath or see the light of day.
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We are conceived in sin. According to Psalms one seven, even the
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children of Christians are born in sin. Not only the seed of the wild
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olive, but also the cultivative olive comes up as a wild plant. So
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it is with the children of Christians as well as the heathen parents. Only
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Jesus Christ and his Holy Mother were free from original sin. All mankind,
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save Christ and our Blessed Lady, were conceived in sin. Saint John the
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Baptist, according to Luke one fifteen, and probably the prophet Jeremiah Jeremiah one
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point five, were born without sin, having been cleansed from sin in their
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mother's womb, but they were not conceived without sin. Some believe that Saint
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Joseph was also born free from sin. All other men were cleansed from sin
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and baptism. The history of man is unintelligible to those who do not believe
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the a doctrine of original sin. Oh, how great the misery that original
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sin is brought into the world, Yet how few there are who are conscious
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conscious of their misery. Men are like children born in slavery, who laugh
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and play and enjoy themselves as if they are free. It is only the
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saints, who know the emptiness of the joys of earth, who lament over
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the misery of sin. All right, y'all, we'll wrap it up there.
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I am exhausted. I'm gonna have supper and go to bed early.
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Y'all have a good one. In the words of Saint padre Pa, pray,
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hope and don't worry, and I'll talk to you next up.