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I know my own heart, I know what lies in there, I know my past, I know what I’ve seen and what I’ve thought – I don’t want God to open the book on my life and examine all my actions, all my thoughts, all my intentions. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to face God’s wrath. Now, you can either accept Jesus substitution, or you can face God’s wrath for your sins. Until one day, Jesus went to the cross and at that point the dam of God’s patience broke and poured out on Jesus.
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Throughout the ages, throughout the generations the wrath of God was stored up. Man sinned more and more, God’s wrath poured out more and more but His patience held it back. Well, God has to judge sin, but since God loved us so much (John 3:16), Jesus came to earth and was judged in our place.ĭonald Barnhouse gives the example that man sinned, God poured out a little wrath, but He set up a dam of patience that held it back. God is love and God is just, so how will He deal with us? And unless you’re perfect, you’re going to fall way way short.īut God is love right? I’m sure a lot of people know this, it’s found in 1 John 4:16. If an infinite and holy God exists, then in order to be just He has to judge sin. It doesn’t matter how many good works this man did from that point on, the fact remains that he is STILL guilty for murder. Let’s say that it was your wife and your kids that were killed – how many “kind acts” would that man have to do in order to pay off his debt to you? This guy got up in court and sobbed and put on quite an act even though the record showed that he already had something like 12 DUI’s. In New Mexico, several years back, this one guy got drunk, got behind the wheel and ended up hitting a minivan killing a woman and her children. Where the problem lies, or at least it seems to me, is not with Opus Dei, or with the person who started it, but with any system of religion that teaches that works are a path to holiness. I mean Yoga seems to be a very weird thing to do to your body, but millions of people are doing it. So I guess we can't really bash on Opus Dei for doing weird things to their bodies. I’m not sure how this is supposed to work, but he seems to be enjoying himself. He’s doing this to liberate his soul from the reincarnation cycle and to bring peace to the earth. I remember reading a story about this Hindu holy man named Ludkan Baba who rolled on the ground for 1500 miles. Protestants also have this same sort of mentality, trying to do something, either painful or inconvenient in order to be more "holy".Įven non-Christians will do things like this. Some people even go so far as to crucify themselves at Easter (they’re usually not members of Opus Dei but just normal Catholics). They mortify their body with the use of these implements, or by not taking cream and sugar with their coffee, or sleeping on the floor, or whatever is an inconvenience for the flesh – which supposedly gets them closer to God. If you've ever given something up for Lent, or if you've ever given something up to be "closer" to God, then that's pretty much same idea.
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The purpose of these implements is to help the user to "mortify" their body. They don't beat themselves bloody, but that's always a personal option. Well, the answer appears to be: yes, sort of.
#Opus da vinci code code#
If you're a Da Vinci Code reader, I'm sure you're wondering: Do they really use that spiked chain thingy on their legs? Or do they really beat themselves bloody with that rope thingy? It was founded in 1928 by Josemaría Escrivá and basically he was interested in helping Christians understand that their life was about holiness and to spread the gospel. It's actually a pretty interesting subject. With all the buzz about the Da Vinci Code, I thought I'd do some research into Opus Dei.