From Jacob

From Jacob:

I realize that my response to this issue is a little past due. The subject seems to be out of the public discourse for now. Of course i wonder if it ever really was discussed in public or was it simply broadcast on nightly news. The reason i bring up this subject is because i never once heard on any broadcast, or in public, or from any pulpit (Catholic or Protestant) how God views or judges the topic. And the answer, of course, is that God does not judge. We do. We are fallen. We trust Satan and his minions. We trust the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. God said don't eat of it or you will die. You will cease to trust my unending and enduring mercy. The apostle Paul wrote where you judge another you only condemn yourselves.

I bring this up because of its importance. I never heard from any Christian or Catholic institution or person on this subject that didn't automatically assume that what those priests did was wrong and they deserved to be punished for it. And i agree, and i'm sure that all of you agree that what those priest did was wrong. But is that spirit of judgement in us the spirit of God. I am absolutely 100 percent certain it most definintely is not. All those priests and all those ministers and all those lay people who sided with the Church and on condemning and punishing those priests have only damned themselves. God knows our hearts and minds. God knows we are all nothing but filthy, rotten law breakers. He sent his son to take the sin, the guilt of the world upon himself. Paul says that whatever could condemn us has been taken from us and attoned for by God. We are to treat the worst law breaker better than ourselves. In fact, we are to treat law breakers like they are Jesus Christ. I never once heard this argument spoken in public on any issue related to crime and punishment. Why? Because the Gospel is never preached in our time. Never!! And all of our institutions, and our entire judicial system is evil. Evil is untrusting what was accomplished for us on that cross. It is finished. Any judgement against James Peters or anyone reading this is finished. My salvation from guilt and all condemnation, from all judgement has been accomplished. I have been delivered from the bondage of the law, and i now exist in a state of perfect Grace with God. So do i now become a blasphemous hypocrite and condemn those priests? Do i love the sinner but hate the sin? Do i judge their actions. If i do i only condemn myself. "Hypocrite", god says. "I have born your guilt how can you condemn another", the Gospel cries. How can we even punish another for their crimes. It would be much more pleasing in the eyes of God if we went to jail or lost our jobs for the argument that God's eternal perfection and righteous uncondemnation (Gods judgement relievingness) and mercy and grace upon all pedophile priest because we are them. We have done the same thing. If you broke one law you've broken them all, the Apostle James declares. Not this Apostle James but the one in the Bible. If we were punished instead of those priests, that would be a righteous act. If the newly appointed supreme court justice declared that she is to be punished for all wrong doing that would be a righteous act. She knows she's done the same. And if she doesn't God declares her a liar.

Anyway, those are my thoughts on what the Gospel speaks to my heart on the matter of Catholic priest pedophilia.