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Christ DID NOT die for the sins of the people
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From Lifesite News: SADLY THIS IS NOT A HOAX...
My comments in bold maroon type...
"Christ did not die for the sins of the people": Head of German Catholic Bishops' Conference on TV
By Hilary White
FREIBURG, Germany April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - [Get this...] According to the chairman [THE Chairman] of the Catholic bishops' conference of Germany, the death of Jesus Christ was not a redemptive act of God to liberate human beings from the bondage of sin and open the gates of heaven. The Archbishop of Freiburg, Robert Zollitsch, known for his liberal views [this is not "liberalism"... this IS heresy], publicly denied the fundamental Christian dogma of the sacrificial nature of Christ's death in a recent interview with a German television station [on TELEVISION folks].
Zollitsch said that Christ "did not die for the sins of the people as if God had provided a sacrificial offering, like a scapegoat." [That's EXACTLY what Christ DID do - what does He think phrases like "Behold the Lamb of God" mean?!]
Instead, Jesus had offered only "solidarity" with the poor and suffering. Zollitsch said "that is this great perspective, this tremendous solidarity." [True, Christ did offer solidarity with the poor and suffering, the weak and oppressed, but that wasn't what He only did...]
The interviewer asked, "You would now no longer describe it in such a way that God gave his own son, because we humans were so sinful? You would no longer describe it like this?"
Monsignor Zollitsch responded, "No." [Affirmative folks, this "Bishop"... admits his heresy, publicly, on live Television.]
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch was appointed to the See of Freiburg im Breisgau in 2003 under Pope John Paul II. He is he sitting Chairman of the German Episcopal Conference, to which he was elected in 2008 and is regarded as a "liberal" in the German episcopate.
In February 2008 he said that priestly celibacy should be voluntary and that it is not "theologically necessary." [Actually nothing entirely wrong with this position... similarly expressed by orthodox Bishops including Cardinal Pell recently... priestly celibacy is a matter of discipline, not necessarily of vocation to, and certainly not integral to, the nature of Sacred Ministry.] Zollitsch has also said he accepts homosexual civil unions by states, but is against same-sex "marriage." [Again, an area that desperately needs balanced and charitable discussion by The Church; true, same-sex unions can never be "Marriage" as we understand the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, but should stable, committed same-sex unions be ruled out entirely? Those opposed to same-sex unions, suggest that because homosexual acts are sinful - as are all sexual acts outside of Marriage, if sexual intercourse is understood to be given solely for the purpose of procreation - then a same-sex relationship would be a committment to a sinful way of life. However, if sexual intercourse is given by God as a physical expression of committed love, i.e. to be enjoyed between a committed couple in a relationship - gay or straight - then sexual acts within such a committed relationship may not be inherently sinful... A reasoned debate, if one could be had, might well suggest that a committed loving relationship between two consenting adults - whether the Sacrament of Matrimony between a man and a woman, or a recognised same-sex union - could be expressed physically for mutual benefit without being sinful; the importance being placed on "committed" i.e. monogamous and faithful... I'm just thinking out loud here?!]
He
told Meinhard Schmidt-Degenhard, the program's host, that God gave "his
own son in solidarity with us unto this last death agony to show: 'So
much are you worth to me, I go with you, and I am totally with you in
every situation'."
"He has become involved with me out of solidarity - from free will." [Does this even make sense? In what way does Christ involve Himself out of solidarity - who's freewill is he talking about?! His or the Saviour's?]
Christ, he said, had "taken up what I have been blamed for, including the evil that I have caused, and also to take it back into the world of God and hence to show me the way out of sin, guilt and from death to life." [This is bizarre, what he i.e.. Zollitsch, has been "blamed for" meaning something he may be unfairly made out to be guilty of...? No! Christ died for our sins - the real and effectual - in return we admit our fault, accept His substitution for us as a sacrificial offering to the Father in atonement for our sins and we can be saved from death and instead receive eternal life!]
However, Article 613 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the definitive work issued by the Church explaining the dogmas and doctrines of the Catholic religion, describes the death of Christ as "both the Paschal sacrifice that accomplishes the definitive redemption of men, through 'the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world', the sacrifice of the New Covenant, which restores man to communion with God by reconciling him to God through the 'blood of the covenant, which was poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins'."
The Catechism continues, "This sacrifice of Christ is unique; it completes and surpasses all other sacrifices. First, it is a gift from God the Father himself, for the Father handed his Son over to sinners in order to reconcile us with himself. At the same time it is the offering of the Son of God made man, who in freedom and love offered his life to his Father through the Holy Spirit in reparation for our disobedience." [TRUTH!]
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Unbelievable! And I thought the situation here in Belgium was bad! Sad really. Do these people even think when they recite the creed on Sundays? No wonder " liturgical commitees" invent so many "alternative creeds" they feel uncomfortable with the timeless catholic truth expressed in the Nicean Creed
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