Latest / The Uncensored Catholic / Show 113: The Creation and Nature of Man

Transcript

Show 113: The Creation and Nature of Man · The Uncensored Catholic

0:54
A, Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. I am I may
1:03
have to cut this one a little short. Not sure what's going on exactly
1:07
with the weather. We are having heavy rains and high winds here in North
1:14
Carolina. It's really rare for this time of year. And in fact,
1:19
when stuff like this happens, the temperature is much higher than it normally is.
1:25
In fact, we're like in the mid sixties in January and the winds
1:30
are blowing thirty forty miles an hour. Oftentimes you can have flash flooding and
1:34
tornadoes. So I figured I better go ahead and get the thing recorded and
1:41
you know, posted to the spreaker, upload to the internet quickly in case
1:46
I lose power. And yeah, that's North Carolina for you. You got
1:51
to worry about hurricanes in the summer and fall, you got to worry about
1:53
ice storms in the winter, and you never know when the weather's just going
1:57
to get crazy like this at any time of year. So yeah, I
2:01
mean, I grew up being a prepper. You know, we always were
2:06
prepared. We have food and water, stored fuel, you know, always
2:10
prepared for any emergency. To me, that makes sense to me, it's
2:14
common sense. You know, the media would portray us as a bunch of
2:17
lunatics. But I'd rather take care of myself and be stuck on a roof
2:23
like those people were in Hurricane Katrina, hoping and waiting for someone to come
2:27
save them. You know, makes sense to me to be physically and spiritually
2:31
prepared. So let's go ahead and get into the show. The We'll start
2:36
with radio replies. As always, the questioner there seems to be a person
2:39
of good faith. This is not one of the more anti Catholic. But
2:46
they just think that all churches are alike, you know, they say.
2:51
The person asks, we Protestants worship the same God as you Catholics, how
2:54
can we be wrong? And the pre censor You're not wrong in worshiping the
2:58
same God. You were wrong in so far as you do not do it
3:01
in the right way. If I were your employer and ordered you to go
3:06
to London via Suez and you went via Panama, you would do the right
3:09
thing and going to London, but you would do the wrong thing in pleasing
3:13
yourself as to the choice of route. God wants all men to serve him,
3:16
and to serve him in the Catholic Church, the Catholic way is completely
3:20
right. The Protestant way is more than half wrong. May seem a little
3:24
harsh, but it's true and really well. Catholics need to be able to
3:30
defend our church at moment's notice to anyone, whether they're well meaning or they're
3:38
just you know, raging anti Catholic bigots, that's spin on the ground whenever
3:42
they hear anything related to Catholicism. I'm run into some of those, and
3:46
you need to explain to them. God founded one church. He gave one
3:50
church's authority. That one church gave us the Bible. You can't just take
3:54
the Bible and start your own church and still be doing God's will. Because
4:00
what did God say, if a man will not listen to the church,
4:03
let him be to you as a heathen. Well, what church is he
4:05
supposed to listen to? It would be the one that Jesus founded, not
4:10
the one that Martin Luther founded, or the king Henry the Eighth founded,
4:14
or you know, Bob Jones. I mean, come on, you know
4:20
who was I'm trying to remember the guy who founded the Mormons, Joseph Smith.
4:28
That was the one, not Bob Jones. Bob Jones was an extremely
4:31
anti Catholic, viriently anti Catholic Baptist who founded Bob Jones University in South Carolina,
4:39
which has been one of the main sources of hatred toward the Catholic Church
4:43
for several decades now. Jimmy Swaggert very similar, charismatic preachers, very good
4:51
speakers. Boy, they get people fired up, but they hate the church
4:57
that God founded and to a level that I would consider demonic possession. In
5:01
all honesty. You know, there does come to a point where you say
5:04
this is not rational, you know, I you know, yeah, from
5:10
rural North Carolina, especially the eastern part of the state, where you know,
5:13
the clan was very, very big. The clan was the militant wing
5:19
of the Democrat Party essentially, And yeah, they were racists. I mean,
5:24
I've known people that did not like black people. Okay, I know
5:28
white people who didn't like black people. I know black people who didn't like
5:30
white people, Okay, both sides, and both of them didn't like lumbe
5:34
Indians. So yeah, but anyway, I'm sure they are racist lumbees.
5:40
I mean, everybody's got racial issues, every race does, at least,
5:45
you know, but they walk around in their daily life. You know,
5:48
white racists with black people, and they don't start screaming at them, right.
5:54
They accept that they exist and they're going to exist. They may discriminate
5:58
against them, but the site or men of someone's name or race does not
6:01
make them go insane with rage. You know, we all recognize that racial
6:10
bigotry is not compatible with Christianity, right, but those racial bigots are far
6:16
more tolerant than anti Catholic bigots that I've encountered. Theyn't. Let mean,
6:24
a white klansman will see a black person and they're just like, Okay,
6:27
there's a black person. You know, I'm not gonna give them a job,
6:29
I'm not gonna eat with them or whatever. But I may dislike them,
6:31
but I'm not going to run over there and start screaming at them.
6:35
I've never seen it happen. I mean, and I've been around you know
6:39
some pretty whacked out folks. Did you say anything Catholic to an anti Catholic
6:46
and they get filled with demonic rage. I mean, a true anti Catholic
6:51
bigot like a klansman would be. I mean, they'll they'll leave the black
6:56
folks alone. They'll come burn your house down if they find out you're Catholic.
7:00
They will not tolerate a Catholic in their county if they know it,
7:03
and they will try to run you off the road. They will try to
7:05
beat you up, they would, I mean yeah, And that's got to
7:12
be some form of demonic possession. That's all I can figure. So the
7:16
person says, I'm a Protestant who leads a good life, that is enough.
7:20
Well, it's obviously not enough. The priest say that you lead a
7:25
good life is to be commended. It would be better to do it in
7:29
the way God wishes rather than in your own way. You are leading a
7:31
good life, cannot prove your religion true if it did, the fact that
7:35
Catholic leads a good life also proves that the Catholic Church is true. Yet,
7:40
if your religion is true, the Catholic Church is not. You cannot
7:43
appeal to your own life as proof, but must find out how Christ described
7:46
his church and then look for that church. That's exactly how I became Catholic.
7:51
I mean literally, the Bible led me to Catholicism, and it would
7:57
lead anyone to Catholicism if they read, you know, a good, accurate
8:01
Bible, a complete Bible in context, as opposed to the Protestant style just
8:05
pulling verses out of context. I mean, when you you know, I
8:09
know, most Catholics probably have not spent a lot of time in a Baptist
8:13
or a Methodist or a Presbyterian church. You'd probably be very surprised. Okay,
8:16
when we get a mass, we have our mass readings and they're coherent,
8:20
they're related, and then the priests we usually give a homily about the
8:24
daily mass readings. We read, you know, most of a chapter of
8:30
each one, and then the next Sunday or actually the next day, the
8:31
rest of that chapter will be read. The entire Bible read in its entirety,
8:37
essentially from beginning to end in about a three year cycle, and certainly
8:39
the New Testament always in its entirety. In a Protestant church, usually the
8:48
preacher will just pick a random verse, and it may be one sentence.
8:52
It's often one sentence. Sometimes it's only a couple of words, but it
8:56
may be, you know, a verse. It may be a whole chapter,
9:01
but you know, like a paragraph. But oftentimes it is one sentence,
9:05
and then for the next forty five minutes he will preach well half hour
9:07
in most churches, but you know you go to a Baptist church sometimes.
9:13
All right, So there was you remember Justin Wilson. He was the old
9:16
cage and chef, and he said he was a great storytellers actually a comedian
9:22
storyteller one before he had his cooking show, really a hero of mine.
9:26
And he said there were these two little boys, one was Baptist and one
9:28
was Catholic, and they were just best friends, I mean so much.
9:33
They just could not stand to be apart from each other. The families lives
9:35
door by door and side by side, you know, next door, and
9:39
they finally decided, okay, these little boys cannot stand to be apart from
9:41
each other. One will go to church with like the Catholic will go church
9:46
with the Baptist's Sunday, and the Babtist will go to church for the Catholic
9:48
next Sunday. Right, Well, the first I guess I got that backwards.
9:52
First of all, the little Baptist boy woman with the Catholic and so
9:56
the Catholic boys do exactly what he should do. He's explaining, if everything
10:00
in the mass, when you kneel, when you stand, well, you
10:03
know, when you say the our father, and you know, the Eucharist
10:09
and everything. He's just taking so much time and explained everything to the little
10:11
boy. And the next Sunday, the Catholic goes to church with the Baptist
10:18
and you know, he's explaining everything just the same way. He saysays,
10:20
you know, this is what we're doing now, and this is what we're
10:24
doing. And then the preacher goes up and he reads a passage from the
10:28
Bible and he takes his watch off and lays it there on the the electern,
10:33
I guess, and little Catholic boy says, what does that mean?
10:37
He said, that don't mean a damn thing. I guarantee you've ever been
10:43
to a country Baptist church, you may be prepared for a three hour sermon.
10:48
And I am not kidding. I mean that he takes his watch off
10:54
and sits it there. That does not mean a thing. So anyway,
10:58
but you would be surprised that they offer then they never never is the Bible
11:03
presented in context. And that's how a lot of these just really weird notions
11:07
come up in Protestantism, because they'll take one sentence out of context and then
11:13
read into it whatever they think it's supposed to mean. If you read the
11:18
Bible literally, you know, a chapter at a time, a book of
11:22
the Bible, from beginning to end, you come up with a very different
11:24
idea of what the words of the Bible actually mean than if all you have
11:30
are these random quotes pulled out of context. The Protestant says, but we
11:37
Protestants believe that if a man lives a good life, no matter what church
11:41
he accepts, he will be saved. He will save his soul. And
11:45
they said, shuld some Protestants believe that many do not good Protestants can be
11:50
saved. But if they are good, they are Protestants in good faith who
11:54
have the will to do God's will, and are not Catholics merely because they
11:58
do not recognize their obligation, shouldn't have joined the true church. Well,
12:03
and that is true when I you know, having read the Bible in context,
12:09
looking for the one church that teaches the fullness of the Word of God
12:13
in context, in its entirety, and you know that it has actually existed
12:16
for two thousand years. Because in church you can't, I mean, you
12:20
can't deny the validity of the Catholic Church without denying that there was a church
12:26
at all for fifteen hundred years. I mean, if the Catholic Church had
12:31
it wrong for fifteen hundred years and Martin Luther just popped up and said,
12:33
oh, I got it right, well, there's no Christianity at all because
12:37
all Christian teachings come through the Catholic Church, the Bible, doctrine, theology,
12:43
morals. Without the Catholic Church, what Jesus told his apostles wouldn't have
12:48
been passed on to anybody. And if the apostles got it wrong, the
12:54
Bible's wrong. You know, once you actually realize contact, you have to
13:01
become Catholic. All right. Now let's get to father Sparaka. And this
13:05
is another topic of the creation of man. The account of the creation of
13:09
man is found in the beginning of the Book of Genesis. Nothing is said
13:13
about the time when man was created, but the general belief fixes the date
13:16
at about four thousand BC. Well, we found, you know, artifacts
13:22
now a lot older than that. You know, interestingly enough, the entire
13:28
archaeological world was turned on its head, and I guess the eighties. You
13:33
know, it has always been assumed that America was populated by essentially Asian people
13:43
from well, what's now Russia. I well, okay, I'm trying to
13:50
get the modern region in my mind. You we're just talking just say Siberia
13:54
somewhere, right. And they were essentially an Asian race of people who came
13:58
across a land bridge to frozen water between essentially Russia and Alaska. Some probably
14:03
did, but they had dated that as being, you know, just a
14:07
couple of thousand years ago essentially, And there was also some speculation that perhaps
14:13
some Polynesians had gotten to South America and begin again we were a only talking
14:18
a few thousand years ago. They found a cave gosh, I can't remember
14:24
where it was. I think it was was Peru maybe. Anyway, they
14:31
found a cave with a medicine bundle. This was herbs and medicinal mushrooms,
14:39
primitive needles, and a scalp. I mean, everything you would need more
14:41
than ten thousand years old. The archaeologists that actually discovered that, they tried
14:48
to strip him of his tenure and even got death threats because he undermined all
14:52
this archaeological research. And that's what's important is in that medicine bundle were herbs.
15:00
It didn't come from that region. So that means even ten thousand years
15:03
ago, there was someone in this area, in this like dry desert area
15:07
that was had trading relationships with other tribes in North America, I mean,
15:16
going all the way up to Canada and all the way down into like Chile
15:20
and such. I mean, you know, modern Mexico, modern Brazil.
15:26
There were tribes, there were peoples there, and they had sophisticated trading relationships.
15:31
And the cloth that it was wrapped in had actually been made on a
15:35
sort of a primitive loom. This turned everything on its head, meaning that
15:39
you know, people had been on the continent continents of North and South America
15:45
for thousands of years, longer than anyone realized. And of course since then
15:50
we found Azi and the different Bogmen and such in Europe. So you know,
15:56
in eighteen Nights when father was Sparaga wrote the book, most people did
15:58
believe that the human race has only been around for about four thousand years.
16:03
Now we know it's tens of thousands of years, and who knows exactly how
16:07
long really, because I mean it would have taken it, I mean we
16:11
except there was just one man and one woman, Adam and Eve. It
16:15
would have taken an extremely long time to populate the earth. I mean,
16:19
yeah, you can go exponentially generation by generation, But then you got to
16:23
figure they're gonna be famines, there gonna be plagues, they're gonna wipe out
16:26
a million people at a time. It would have taken an extremely long time
16:33
to populate the globe. So anyway, that's you know, that's neither here
16:37
nor there but the four weeks. But this is his point. He said
16:40
that the belief fixes the date at four thousand BC, and the four weeks
16:44
of Advent seemed to indicate the Church adopts this view. Well, that's no
16:48
longer valid anyway, to the best of my knowledge, it's not anyway.
16:55
Point number one, God made the body of man out of the dust of
16:57
the earth and breathe into him living soul. The soul of man is a
17:02
spiritual substance. The materialists who denies the existence of the soul because it cannot
17:07
be perceived by his senses might as well deny the existence of human reason because
17:11
he cannot see it. The soul is endowed with two faculties of reason and
17:15
free will. Some have supposed that there are in man two souls on account
17:21
of the differing different inclinations which strive for mastery in him, and the struggle
17:26
that takes place between the leaning towards sensual enjoyment and the reason that condemns it.
17:30
But this struggle only proves that the soul has different tendencies in virtue of
17:34
our nature of being partly material and partly spiritual. The relations between the body
17:40
and the soul of man are as follows. The body is the dwelling place
17:42
of the soul, as the nutshell to the kernel, as the dress to
17:48
the man, as the hut the hut to the hermit. Such is the
17:52
body to the soul. The body is also the instrument of the soul,
17:56
whereby it may attain an eternal happiness. Is ruels are to the carpenter has
18:00
brushed to the painter, the organ to the organists, such as the body
18:04
to the soul. The soul is the guide of the body, as the
18:07
driver of his steed or the captain of his ship. Too often the soul
18:12
allows evil desires of the body to lead it astray, to ruin, to
18:17
the ruin of both. The body is a good servant, but a bad
18:21
master. The soul is also the life of a body. As soon as
18:25
the two are parted, the body returns to the dust from which it was
18:27
formed. The souls of men are essentially different from those of lower animals and
18:32
have different faculties and capabilities. The souls of animals are incapable of striving after
18:37
perfection or searching into the causes of things. Hence they can have no knowledge
18:41
of their end. They are led by instinct, not by reason. They
18:47
have no craving after a higher happiness and are quite satisfied with the enjoyment of
18:52
sense. They have no spiritual nature, but are essentially dependent on matter.
18:56
It is an error to think that the bodies of men are developed out of
19:00
those of lower animals. Very true. We don't believe in evolution as the
19:03
origin of the species. We don't believe man came from apes. It's never
19:07
been proved. It's taught in schools, has been for about one hundred years
19:11
now, but they've never found that so called missing link. There is no
19:17
archaeological evidence to prove evolution. Therefore, it still remains a theory, and
19:22
it is a theory that is not compatible with Christian belief. We believe that
19:29
God created man. Now men, I obviously evolved and developed over time.
19:33
We don't know exactly what our first ancestors look like. You know, we
19:37
know that in Africa, where though the sun was hotter, that people got
19:41
more melanin in their skin and had dark skin. And in Sweden, Norway,
19:48
where it's cold and the sun doesn't come in at the intense angle,
19:52
people became very light skin and blonde. You know, it's evolution cannot be
19:57
denied, but it doesn't mean it's the origin of the species. He says,
20:02
this theory advanced well. Many think that man, that men are sprung
20:07
from the lower animals by process of gradual development. This is the theory advanced
20:12
by the English naturalist Darwin, who believe that the first man was a highly
20:15
developed kind of monkey. There is an essential difference between the shape and body
20:22
of man and that of an ape, and between the form of their skulls.
20:25
The brain of man is far larger and heavier than that of an ape.
20:29
Man has the gift of speech, the ape has not. Man has
20:32
the power for forming abstract ideas the ape has not. Man has a long
20:36
period of growth and a gradual development of his faculties. The ape shoots up
20:40
very quickly to its full development. The ape point live is about thirty years.
20:44
A man can attain the age of eighty or even one hundred years.
20:48
Man is capable of the highest cultivation. The ape is not. No bones
20:52
have ever yet been found which bridge over the impassable gulf that separates men from
20:56
apes. That's as true today as it was in eighteen ninety. So no
21:00
matter how hard they've tried, they've never been able to prove it. There
21:03
is no difference between the bones of men in present days and those who lived
21:07
thousands of years ago. Very true. You can look at the tombs like
21:11
the pharaohs in Egypt, and their bones are the same as ours. Tradition
21:15
and language bear witness. Atsi Aatsi would be very good example. Look up
21:22
Otzi. He's, you know, one of the bog men. He was
21:23
like he was a hunter, and he had his own medicine bags, also
21:27
showing very sophisticated knowledge of plants and medicinal mushrooms, trade routes, fabric that
21:36
was more sophisticated than people believed at the time. Yeah, you can learn
21:40
a lot from Atzi. Actually, tradition in language bear witness to an early
21:45
period when men enjoyed a higher cultivation, from which they afterwards fell away through
21:49
sin and vice. The apes, which bear the greatest resemblance to man in
21:53
bodily form, are stupid and without intelligence, and seem to have been created
21:57
in order that we may see what man would have been had God not breathed
22:03
life into him and immortal soul and made him like himself. It's an interesting
22:07
concept to those who trace the origin of men from apes may be applied the
22:12
words of holy scripture. Man, when he was in honor, did not
22:17
understand he hath been compared to senseless beasts and made like to them. That's
22:22
from Psalms point number two. The first human beings that God created were Adam
22:26
and Eve. Eve was made from the rib of Adam while he slept,
22:30
and Adam, and from Adam and Eve, all the means who now cover
22:33
the face of the earth were descended. Hence all are members of one and
22:38
the same family. The differences of colors and shape of the skull, or
22:41
the results of difference in climate, food, and ways of living. That's
22:45
why Catholics can't be racist. We believe we're all part of the same family,
22:51
and more than that, part of the family of God. We find
22:55
that animals gradually changed their shape and colerated or different climates. Wo men have
23:00
certain common bodily characteristics, and also the mental faculties of will, memory,
23:04
and understanding. The oldest legends of all existing people tell of a primeval happiness
23:10
from which man fell of a deluge over all the inhabited portion of the earth,
23:15
and so bear witness to a common origin. Yet all men derive only
23:18
their bodies from Adam. For the soul of every man is created by God.
23:22
It is not man but God who communicates to each of us his soul
23:26
when he comes into existence. The Lord hath formed the spirit of man in
23:30
him, as from Zachariah. Just as the Holy Spirit and baptism or in
23:34
the sacrament of Penance, descends into the soul of man and gives it spiritual
23:38
life. So God gives natural life to the body of man informed and places
23:41
the soul in it. He did so with the bodies of Adam and Eve
23:45
in their creation. God creates each soul and at the same time and at
23:52
the same moment, places it in the body which He has prepared for.
23:56
It is therefore an error to suppose as Tertullian did that the soul of the
24:00
child is sprung from the soul of its parent, as one flame is engendered
24:03
from another. Some have foolishly asserted that all men have one and the same
24:07
soul, although that God created the souls of all men when he first created
24:11
the world. This was the doctor of Plato and Origin and is entirely false.
24:15
Zero point one. Under this topic, the soul of man has made
24:18
in the image of God, since it is a spirit like to God.
24:22
Before the creation of man, God said, let us make man to our
24:26
own image and likeness, and let him have dominion over the beasts and the
24:30
whole earth. That's from Genesis. Of course, man is made in the
24:33
image of God. His likeness to God is to be found in his soul,
24:36
which possesses reason and free will, and thence has the power of knowing
24:40
what is beautiful and good and of loving it. He moreover, through these
24:44
two factories, as dominion over the visible world, as God has dominion over
24:48
the whole universe. In the words spoken before the creation of man, God
24:52
joined together the likeness of himself and dominion over the earth. Man attains to
24:56
a perfect likeness of God only when he's in the grace of God, for
25:00
in this case he has made a partaker of the divine nature second Peter one
25:04
four. The just man is truly the lord of the whole earth and of
25:08
all creatures upon it, whereas the sinner is the slave of creatures. Man,
25:14
through his likeness to God, has not only the power of knowing the
25:17
true and beautiful and good, but he has also the power of knowing and
25:21
loving and enjoying God in his divine majesty. Just as the globe has a
25:25
feeble resemblance to the earth, so the soul of man has a feeble resemblance
25:29
to God. He means a desktop globe. The soul is also an image
25:34
of the Blessed Trinity in virtue of its three powers, memory, understanding,
25:38
and will. In its memory, it resembles the Father, and it's understanding
25:42
the Son, and in his will the Holy Ghost. These three powers are
25:47
united in one soul. So the three persons of the Blessed Trinity are united
25:51
in one and the same nature. Notice the words used a creation let us
25:55
make man, thereby indicating the plurality of persons in the Blessed Trinity. It
26:00
is its likeness to the blessed trinity that gives every single soul its priceless value.
26:07
It is this which explains the incarnation. The soul of man is worth
26:10
more than all the stars of heaven. The body of man is not made
26:12
in the image of God, for God is a pure spirit. But yet
26:17
the likeness to God stamps itself in some way on the body as being an
26:21
instrument of the soul, both in its upright bearing and in the dominion exerts
26:26
over the irrational animals. What is man that thou art mindful of him?
26:30
Thou hast crowned him with the glory and honor, and has given him dominion
26:33
over the works of thy hands. It's from Psalms, of course, the
26:37
soul of the point two. The soul of man is immortal. It can
26:41
never cease to exist. The soul can never cease to exist, but it
26:45
becomes spiritually dead when it loses the grace of God by mortal sin. It
26:48
cannot lose consciousness, but it can lose God. A branch that falls from
26:52
the tree continues to exist, but it is nevertheless dead. Sinners are thus
26:57
dead even while they live. On the other hand, even after they are
27:00
dead, the soul of man is immortal. We know from the words of
27:04
Jesus Christ. Our Lord says, fear not them who can kill the body
27:08
but cannot kill the soul in Matthew ten twenty eight. And to the good
27:11
thief on the cross, he says today today that today thou shalt be with
27:17
me in Paradise Luke twenty three, forty three. He teaches the same truth
27:22
in the story of the Rich Man in Lazarus Luke twenty six nineteen. God
27:26
is the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and is not the God
27:30
of the dead, but of the living Matthew twenty two thirty two. We
27:34
learn the same truth from the numberless appearances of the dead to the living.
27:40
At our Lord's transfiguration, Moses appeared who had long been dead. At the
27:45
same time of Our Lord's crucifixion, many who were dead appeared in Jerusalem.
27:48
That's Matthew twenty seven, twenty seven fifty three. I think the prophet Jeremiah
27:55
and the priests and IIAs appeared to Judas Maccabeus before his victory over Nickonorm That's
28:00
from the Book of Maccabees. As I always say, if you don't have
28:03
a bible that has the Book of Maccabees in it, You need a better
28:06
bible. Our Lady has constantly appeared to saints and others, and so have
28:11
many of the saints, as well as those who are suffering in purgatory,
28:14
sometimes to console and encourage the living, sometimes to warn them, and in
28:18
the case of the holy souls, to ask for prayers. The lost rarely
28:22
and something never appear tomen, unless it may be in some rare cases to
28:26
warn the living. It is unlawful to invoke the appearance of the dead,
28:29
and those who do so are tricked by the devil, who takes the form
28:32
of the person invoked, or who indicates their supposed presence by sounds, wraps,
28:37
etc. All true appearances of the dead are wrought by the instrumentality of
28:41
the angels. We must be very cautious in accepting such appearances as real,
28:45
but yet we ought not reject them altogether. Many reject all such appearances because
28:49
they know that if they acknowledge them to be true, they would have to
28:52
change their way of living, and this they are not willing to do.
28:59
That's why, then, though the Bible talks about angels appearing to men,
29:03
and talking with them, and yes, saints just as he just mentioned appearing
29:10
to men and talking to them, Moses and Elijah appearing, you know,
29:17
to Jesus, and I mean many times in the Bible. And they say
29:21
that the Bibles are so authority. They don't believe in humans communicating with angels
29:26
and saints, because if they did, they'd have to admit the Catholic Church
29:30
was right and their church is wrong. Or you know, maybe that everything
29:34
they see is observed by a great cloud of witnesses, as the Bible says.
29:41
But they say, the saints in heaven have no idea what we're doing
29:45
here on earth, even though the Bible says, you do not know,
29:48
we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses. So they have to
29:53
reject the very words of the Bible in order to keep their doc of sol
30:00
Scripture or the Bible alone, because otherwise they'd have to submit to the teachers
30:03
of the Catholic Church. So it's a contradiction from day one. We can
30:10
also prove from reason that the soul is immortal. Man has a long man
30:14
has a longing after a perfect and lasting happiness. This longing is common to
30:18
all men, and is implanted in them by their creator. Such happiness can
30:22
never be attained in this world, and therefore if a man possessed desire for
30:26
it, without a hope of its being satisfied, he would be more unfortunate
30:30
than the brutes who have no such desire the animals. In other words,
30:33
and God, in implanting it into his breasts, would not be good but
30:37
cruel. If man had no immortal soul, the wicked, who do evil
30:41
all their lives, would go unpunished, and the just, who by their
30:44
self sacrifice have robbed themselves with the enjoyments of this life, would go unrewarded.
30:48
This would be an injustice impossible God, for a God of perfect justice.
30:55
We are also conscious, conscious of an individual unity in each one of
31:00
us, which is independent of our body, which perseveres in spite of all
31:03
bodily changes and continues from childihood into old age. It is present during our
31:08
sleep as well as during our waking hours, and is active when all of
31:14
our bodily senses are wrapped in repose or inactivity. Saint Augustine tells the story
31:19
of Jannatius I guess Gnadius I don't know a physician of Carthage who would not
31:26
believe in the immortality of the soul. One night he had a dream in
31:29
which he saw standing before him a beautiful young man clothed in white, who
31:33
said to him, dost thou see me? He answered, yes, I
31:36
see you. The young man rejoined, dost thou see me with thine eyes?
31:40
He said, no or no answer, jenadeus, for their closed in
31:42
sleep. With what then dost thou see me? I know not? He
31:45
answered? Young man continues, dost thou hear me, yes, with thine
31:51
ears? No, for these two are wrapped in sleep. With what?
31:53
Then dost thou hear me? I know not? He answered? Are you
31:56
speaking to me with us? The next question, yes, with thy mouth?
32:00
No? With what? Then? I know not? Then the young
32:02
man said, See now, thou sleepest, sleepest, and yet thou seest
32:08
and hearest and speakest. The hour will come when thou wilt sleep in death,
32:14
And yet and yet thou wilt see and hear, and speak and feel.
32:16
Janadius awoke and knew that God had sent an angel to teach him the
32:20
immortality of the soul. No practical matter is ever lost. And see there's
32:25
an example of someone who you know, was not even a Christian, who
32:30
was taught by an angel. And Protestants who are Christians don't believe angels do
32:37
that, which is a real shame. I talked about this last week Protestants.
32:42
If only Protestants understood the roles of angels, especially their guardian angel,
32:46
I think the world would be a much better place. No particle of matter
32:52
is ever lost. Matter takes different forms, but the same amount of matter
32:54
remains throughout. This's true energy can ever be, can even be created nor
32:59
destroyed, but changes forms. If mattern ever perishes, is it possible that
33:04
the soul, which belongs to a higher order is destined to perish? All
33:08
the nations of the earth believe in the immortality of the soul. That was,
33:15
you know true. I guess before communism, you know, atheism became
33:22
essentially a national religion in many places. When Jacob heard of the death of
33:27
his son Joseph, you could say, all traditional peoples believe in the immortality
33:30
of the soul. So before postmodernism and modernism and atheism and communism and all
33:38
the other stuff. When Jacob heard the death of his son Joseph, he
33:45
expressed a wish to go and join him in the nether world. That's in
33:46
Genesis. The Jews were forbidden to call it the dead or to hold intercourse
33:51
with them. That's in Deuteronomy. The Greeks and Romans believed. In Tartius
33:55
and Elysium, the Egyptians believed that the soul wandered about for three thousand years
34:00
before finding rest. In other nations, the offerings for the dead and the
34:04
cults of departing spirits or manes testified of the same belief. There are only
34:09
a few, and those men who are immortal sin who declare that they think
34:14
death is the end of our existence wish there were still only a few.
34:19
Most of those who put an end to their lives do so not with the
34:22
idea that after death they will cease to be, but because they imagine life
34:25
is intolerable, not realizing the consequences of their act. The supernatural endowments of
34:30
Man, our first parents, before the fall, had a happiness almost equal
34:35
to that of the angels when first created. Hence, the Psalmist says of
34:38
Man, thou hast made him little lower than the angels. Thou hast crowned
34:42
him with glory and honor. Hethen nations have legends of the happiness of the
34:45
first man, termed it the Golden Age. Hesiod said that men lived like
34:52
gods in perfect happiness. Our first parents were creating the grace of God and
34:58
therefore possessed singular perfections of soul and body. Adam was created, says the
35:02
Council of Trent, in justice and holiness. He was partaker of the divine
35:07
nature. This justice and holiness did not have of himself. He did not
35:12
have himself, but God gave it to him, just as the eye does
35:15
not possess light from within, but it absorbs it from without. The special
35:20
privileges granted the soul of man and his first creation were as follows and enlightened
35:23
understanding, a will free from all weakness, and a possession of sanctifying grace.
35:29
Through means of these, he was a child of God and heir to
35:31
Heaven and will pleasing in the sight of God. God filled them with wisdom
35:36
and the knowledge of understanding, says the Wise Man in Ecclesias. He gave
35:40
Adam and an insight into the nature of things, so that he was able
35:45
to give appropriate names to all the animals. He also knew by inspiration the
35:49
dissolubility of marriage. The will of man was weakened by the will of man
35:54
was weakened by no sensual desires. Adam and Eve were naked, but felt
35:58
no shame because in the members, no rebellion in the flesh against the spirit,
36:02
no struggle necessary to avoid sin. They also had the Holy Spirit dwelling
36:07
within them and his sanctifying grace. They were like to God, full of
36:10
love for Him, and children of God, and because children also heirs of
36:15
God and joint errors with Christ. The special perfections of their body were that
36:20
they were immortal and free from all liability to sickness and disease. They were
36:23
in paradise and had dominion over all creatures around them. God created man immortal.
36:29
That's from the Book of Wisdom, another book that if you don't have
36:31
it in your Bible, you need a better Bible. Death only came in
36:35
as punishment of disobedience Genesis two seventeen. The death threatened was bodily as well
36:40
as spiritual death for the punishment of their sin. Dust sell art, and
36:45
unto dust they'll shall return Genesis three nineteen. Man had indeed to work in
36:52
paradise. But his work was part of his happiness and caused him no fatigue.
36:54
He had no sickness, for sickness as the forerunner of death. Paradise
36:59
was a lovely goard, garden full of full of noble trees and lovely flowers,
37:04
and the fairest futes fruits. Many beautiful animals were there who were perfectly
37:08
obedient to his behests. There was also a river in Paradise, divide in
37:13
four branches. In the midst of the garden was the tree of knowledge of
37:15
good and evil, and close by it the Tree of Life, the fruits
37:19
of which were protection against disease and death. Paradise is said to have been
37:22
situated between Tigris and Euphrates. There's no way agrees on that Man had also
37:30
a complete dominion over all the wild beasts, not that their nature was different
37:34
from them now, but the grace and dignity of men rendered them submissive to
37:37
his will and made them fear an obey him. That's ecclesiastices as well.
37:42
Something of his power still remained. Something of this power still remains to man.
37:45
It is said that no wild beasts can look a man steadily in the
37:49
face. We see the same thing in the natural order, now in the
37:52
wild beast tamers, and in the supernatural power that many of the saints possessed
37:57
of a wild beasts c. G. Saint Francis of Assisi, and many
38:00
of the martyrs before whose feet the fiercest animals in the Roman Amphitheater laid down
38:05
in prostrate homage. This was due to their great purity and freedoms from sin,
38:09
the spiritual perfections of our first parents. We call supernatural gifts because there
38:14
are something altogether beyond and were added to human nature. Thus, a rich
38:17
man, out of compassion provides a poor orphan with food, clothing, lodging,
38:22
instruction, and trade. These would correspond to the natural gifts given to
38:28
God given by God to man. But the rich man, in his bounty,
38:31
goes further. He adopts the orphan, closes him. It closes him
38:35
as if he were his own son, and gives him a room in his
38:37
house and the education of a gentleman. These would correspond in some way to
38:40
the supernatural gifts given by God to man. The first of natural gifts bestow
38:46
upon the orphan as sort of likeness to the giver, but the second impart
38:50
to him a far closer like likeness. So the supernatural gifts of God to
38:55
man impart to him a far closer likeness to God than the natural. Or,
39:00
to take another illustration of painter can trace the portrait of a man with
39:04
a few strokes in black and white. But if he takes his brush and
39:07
colors the drawing, if he paints the eyes blue and the cheeks red,
39:09
and the hair brown, etc. The likeness soon becomes more beautiful and corresponds
39:15
more closely to the original. So it is with the natural and supernatural gifts
39:20
of God. When God at Man's creation said, let us make man in
39:23
our image and likeness, the image refers to the natural, the likeness to
39:28
the supernatural gifts of God. And I guess I'm starting to hear a lot
39:36
of limbs hitting the roof and the winds howling out there. Oh, I
39:43
could probably wrap this up one up today, if the power will stay on.
39:47
You know what, I'm going to have to do a second part.
39:50
It looks like, you know, I probably got a good twenty minutes left
39:53
on this one, and I'm already about forty minutes and it's got to be
39:58
edited and uploaded before the power goes out or we lose internet, or who
40:00
knows what's going to happen. So y'all say a prayer for everybody's safety in
40:06
these storms that are coming through. Pray we don't have any tornadoes, and
40:09
you know, always in the words of Saint Patrick po pray, hope and
40:14
don't worry. We'll do part two of this one tomorrow and talk to you
40:17
then have a goe