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Thursday, September 11, 2008

An Apology

I wrote this blog, in the past, having very little observation of the glory of the Christ.

I had very bad teaching regarding truth.

I arrived at most of my conclusions on this blog merely on the basis of my own rationality. This in short was entirely prideful and ultimately...sin.

I am sorry.

I would like to correct this blog with an amendment...

We are a people broken and wounded by sin. Our only hope is in Christ.
Christ body extends across this planet to this day; His Body, our Eucharist. His Body, an undivided, holy catholic and apostolic church.

Now sure, His society we know as the Church is filled with saints and sinners alike.

We the whole people of the human family are a society filled with saints and sinners alike.

The unique quality of the Church that distinguishes it from the rest of the human family is God's grace. Together we are redeemed from our sins by faith in one truth. The truth is this:

There is one God, The Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and Earth.
That His one and only Son, Jesus Christ is our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty. From there He will come to judge the living and the dead. That at pentacost, He sent his Holy Spirit to the holy Christian church, the communion of saints. And that through all of this, we are forgiven of our sins, our bodies are resurrected and we have eternal life.

This is what is true.

And as a people in this grace, we are born from above. We are included in the inheritence of God's Eternal Kingdom. We are the new Jerusalem.

Transformed by the conversion only possible through baptism.

This means we must not judge as men, but see people as God sees men...with mercy.

Judgement by suspision is ground for sin against this truth, insofar as it shows contempt for our neighbor.

There are two ways we must guard against that are of this condemned type of judgement:

1) Judging our neighbor on grounds preconditioned by the perception of our own shortfalls in their actions. (which might I add, we don't even really know our own faults and tendancies. Only God knows our inner most passions. Thus it is impossible for us to see in others that which we can not in all actuallity see in ourselves).

2) Judging our neighbor on the basis of our passions or emotions toward them.

I apologize for doing either of these things in my writings or actions before I was taught the truth.

Please forgive me.

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