We are all free to believe whatever we want. We are free to believe in God or the Albigensian Heresy. We are free to choose how we live our lives. We all must face the consequences
While there are different worldviews: Hindu sees the human person as a soul trapped in a body. The Buddhist sees the person as neither a body nor a soul. The atheist views the person as a body without a soul
The Christian view is that humans are bodies and souls, created in the image and likeness of God. Every human being has a unique and rational soul that animates his human body, whether in the womb, outside the womb or in a jail cell.
The Church (CCC 355 ) Teaches."God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them."218 Man occupies a unique place in creation: (I) he is "in the image of God"; (II) in his own nature he
unites the spiritual and material worlds; (III) he is created "male and female"; (IV) God established him in his friendship.
56 Of all visible creatures only man is "able to know and love his creator".219 He is "the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake",220 and he alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God's own life. It was for this end that he was created, and this is the fundamental reason for his dignity:
What made you establish man in so great a dignity? Certainly the incalculable love by which you have looked on your creature in yourself! You are taken with love for her; for by love indeed you created her, by love you have given her a being capable of tasting your eternal Good.221
357 Being in the image of God the human individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is not just something, but someone. He is capable of self-knowledge, of self-possession and of freely giving himself and entering into communion with other persons. And he is called by grace to a covenant with his Creator, to offer him a response of faith and love.
We are all free to believe whatever we want. We are free to believe in God or the Albigensian Heresy. We are free to choose how we live our lives. The late Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar says we can choose to live an Ego-Drama, where everything we do revolves around ourselves and no one else; we write the script, we produce it and we star in it. Or we can live a Theo-Drama where everything we do revolves around God. While we are free to choose, we make choices and choices make us: we must face the consequences.
The Church understands that we are all sinners in need of a savior (Rom 5:12-21). We are inheritors of original sin and all its consequences, and by actual sin we distance ourselves from God. We can’t save ourselves, but we don’t need to: Jesus Christ has paid the price for our sins. The Catholic Church teaches that salvation comes through Jesus alone (Acts 4:12), since he is the “one mediator between God and man” (1 Tm 2:5-6).
Sacred Scriptures say life is short, death is real, Hell is hot, eternity is long, and Jesus saves! Everyone made in God's image. Everyone is broken. Everyone is created for love.
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As Father Mike Schmitz says, everyone has desires that are not good. We are all broke. Those who identify as gay or trans, have dignity. Those who experience same-sex attraction are worthwhile. Those who are grappling with their sexuality as part of the family, that is, part of the human family, and if they are Christian, they are part of the family of God. If you are same-sex attracted person, you belong to the Catholic Church.
While the unwelcome LGBT rhetoric is close to the one articulated by the Head Of Hizbullah’s Shari’a Council in Lebanon -He wants to kill gay people, because he is afraid of being infected by them - The Major League Basebal, including the Los Angeles Dodgers Mocking The Catholic Faith is just as despicable. Let’s not forget the full on attack on Christianity by Corporate America, including Bud Light, NorthFace, the US Navy and so on, as the White House, DOJ, FBI and Main Stream Media are in lock step to promote the Christo-Fascist, America Is Racist narratives
Just as the NAACP and the FBI see Catholics as potential domestic terrorists, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 GOP state attorneys general are demanding answers from the FBI and Justice Department and threatening legal action after a leaked internal FBI memo revealed that the agency had efforts underway to identify and treat Catholics as “potential terrorists.” “Anti-Catholic bigotry appears to be festering in the FBI, and the Bureau is treating Catholics as potential terrorists because of their beliefs,” the AGs wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland
According to Prophet Ezekiel (36:25)
" I will sprinkle clean water over you to make you clean; from all your impurities and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you so that you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep them.
A heart transplant as the one described by the Prophet Ezekiel cannot be legislated or surgically handled. God is the only one who can change hearts. The love that raised Christ from the dead can raise these broken hearts, including those who denigrate the LGBT community and
those mocking the Christian faith.
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