Author Topic: ELEISON COMMENTS - ROMANS X (886) (Read 1290 times)

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July 6th, 2024 EC No. 886

ROMANS X

To Sunday Mass a Catholic must go!

“I just need chocolate in my own breast” – NO!

That the Israelites were, under the Old Testament, the race chosen from among all
mankind to provide for the Son of God His means of living on earth a human life so that
He would be able to suffer and die for all men as their Saviour and Messiah, and that the
Israelites yet refused to recognise Him as their Messiah when finally He came among
them, is a great mystery. One may well refer to human nature, to original sin, to human
pride for an explanation, but the mystery remains. How could any race on earth have been
better prepared over the two thousand years since Abraham for the coming of their
Messiah, and yet have refused to recognise Him, turning themselves instead, down the
two thousand years that have followed since, into His most skilful and motivated
persecutors?

In Romans Chapter IX St Paul began his answer to the question by declaring that the
People of God have not failed, only while under the Old Testament it consisted purely of
Jews by being born in their race, under the New Testament it now consists of Jews or
Gentiles by their faith in Jesus Christ. And if God freely chose to favour with that gift of
faith Gentiles over Jews, that was His prerogative, and the Jews had, and still have, only
themselves to blame for their refusal of that gift. That refusal serves to highlight His mercy
to the Gentiles previously unable to belong to the People of God, now able by the Catholic
Faith to belong to the Catholic Church, the true Israel of the spirit, whereas Jews refusing
Jesus Christ and clinging to the Mosaic Law for salvation make up a false Israel of the
flesh, unable to save their souls.

In Chapter X, St Paul similarly contrasts two “justices,” or states of salvation before God,
also called “justifications” (v.1–4). Old Testament justification required that one should fulfil
all the works demanded by the Mosaic Law, which was humanly impossible, says St Paul
(v.5). On the contrary, New Testament justification requires no such demanding tasks
beyond human strength, but merely that Jew or Gentile believe in Jesus inwardly and
profess Him outwardly (v.6–13). Now it is true that to believe in Jesus Christ one must
know about Him through a preacher (14–17). But not all men choose to believe, even if
they know about Christ (16). Thus the Jews have both heard (18) and understood (19) the
Gospel of Christ, but they have chosen (and freely choose down the centuries) not to
believe in Christ (21).

In this Chapter X of Romans, these verses 6 to 13 are of special importance, because
they were used by Luther as one of the key texts from Scripture to found Protestantism,
and launch the whole modern world. In context, St Paul is contrasting the simplicity and
ease of making a profession of Faith with the inhuman difficulty of fulfilling the works of the
Mosaic Law (see Romans VII), but he is not here specifying what else is necessary for
that profession of faith to enable a soul to enter the Catholic Church and be saved for
eternity. For instance, a man may have a very forgetful son, so if the son is going to use
the family car, his father may say to him, “The car needs petrol.” Now in order to run, the
car needs also oil and water, but the father does not say to him, “The car needs petrol and
oil and water,” because in context, that is not what the son needs to hear, although it is
perfectly true and more complete.

But Luther uses the Scripture quotation as though to be saved one needs only an inward
and outward profession of faith in Christ, as though the father above was saying “The car
only needs petrol,” which is obviously false. To join the New Testament People of God, the
Catholic Church, one must also be baptised – “He who believes and is baptised will be
saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned” (Mk. XVI, 16). That is not what St
Paul needed to add in Romans X, 8–13, but by pretending that St Paul was saying that
Christian salvation needs only the subjective profession of faith, as though cars only need
petrol, Luther was using the quote to cut out the entire Catholic Church! Subjectivism
(man before God) has slowly but surely been taking over Catholicism ever since. Today it
is “Wokeism.”

Kyrie eleison

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