The False Unity
First published January 4th, 2007
IF the prayer and desire of Jesus is that "they may all be one" (John 17:21), then Satan too has a plan for unity—a false unity. And we see the signs of it emerging. What is written here relates to the coming "parallel communities" spoken of in Trumpets of Warning — Part V.
TRUE UNITY
Christ prayed that we would all be one:
…by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind… (Phil 2:5)
What mind? What love? Of what accord? Paul answers it in the next verse:
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who… did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant…
The mark of Christianity is love. The apex of this love is self-denial, a kenosis or emptying of self for the other. This is to be the mind of the Body of Christ, a unity of service, which is the bond of love.
Christian unity is not one of mindless submission and conformity. That is what a cult is. As I often say when I speak to the youth: Jesus did not come to take away your personality—He came to take away your sins!
And so, the Body of Christ consists of many members, but with different functions, all ordered toward the goal of love. Difference, therefore, is celebrated. All is ordered toward the good of the other, either through acts of charity, or by adherence to natural and moral laws as revealed to us through God’s revelation of Himself. Thus charity and truth are not and cannot be divorced, for they are both ordered toward the good of the other. Where there is love, there is no compulsion; where there is truth, there is freedom.
Thus, the unity of Christ is one where the human soul is able to grow into its full potential within a loving community, which is the image of the first community: the Holy Trinity.
THE FALSE UNITY
Satan’s goal is not that we would all be one, but that all would be "equal."
In order to build this false unity, it will be based on a false trinity: "Tolerant, Humane, Equal". The enemy’s objective is to first tear down the unity of the Body of Christ, the unity of marriage, and even that inner unity within the human person (body, soul, and spirit) which is made in God’s image… and then rebuild all in a false image.
At present, man has power over the world and its laws. He is able to dismantle this world and reassemble it. —POPE BENEDICT XVI (Cardinal Ratzinger), Palermo, March 15th, 2000
In being "Equal", there is no longer such thing as "man" or "woman" or "husband" and "wife." The radical feminist movement was fostered by Satan to erase the different but complementary roles of man and woman. Having accomplished this, he moved to the next step: the erasure of the differences in masculine and feminine sexuality. Now manhood or womanhood is a matter of preference, and thus, man and woman are essentially "equal." (It is important to note that the modern secularist mind does not mean by the word "equality" each human being’s equal and eternal value, but rather a kind of bland sameness.)
Relativizing the difference between the sexes… tacitly confirms those bleak theories which seek to remove all relevance from a human being’s masculinity or femininity, as if this were a purely biological matter. —POPE BENEDICT XVI, WorldNetDaily, December 30th, 2006
But this false and limited sense of "equality" is not restricted to man and woman; it is also one that is "Humane." That is, animals and planets are to be considered, albeit varied in form and of lesser intelligence, equal creatures. In this symbiotic relationship, man, woman, animal—even the planet and the environment—become equal in value in a kind of cosmic homogeneousness (and sometimes, humankind takes on less value in the face of, say, an endangered species.)
Spain, for example, has passed the Great Ape Project into law, declaring that chimpanzees and gorillas are part of the “community of equals” with people. Switzerland has declared that individual plants have “intrinsic dignity” and that “decapitating” wildflowers is a great moral wrong. Ecuador’s new constitution provides for “rights of nature” that are equal to those of Homo sapiens. —Homo Sapiens, Get Lost, Wesley J. Smith, senior fellow in human rights and bioethics for the Discovery Institute, National Review Online, April 22nd, 2009
And lastly, this false unity is based on "Tolerance." While keeping or holding to the outward form of charity, it is often devoid of love for it is founded on feelings rather than the illumination of truth and reason. Natural law and the moral law derived thereof are discarded for the elusive concept of "rights." Thus, if something can be considered a right, it should therefore be tolerated (even if the right is simply invented by a judge or demanded by pressure groups, regardless of these "rights" violate truth.)
As such, this false Trinity does not have love as its end, but the ego: it is the new Tower of Babel.
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure nothing but the self and its appetites. —POPE BENEDICT XVI (Cardinal Ratzinger), Opening Homily at Conclave, April 18th, 2004.
UNIVERSAL FALSEHOOD
Once this "trinity" of falsehood coalesce’s in all three of its aspects, it prepares the way for a false unity to be forged.
But it is not unity. Rather, it is conformity.
As Christianity is based on freedom and responsibility to the truth—and it is this which fosters genuine unity—the false unity will come about by an outward semblance of freedom: security in the name of peace. A totalitarian state will be justified so as to bring about this false unity for the common good (particularly if the world is in the midst of a Third World War or buckling under catastrophes, natural or economic.)
The only thing remaining at that point will be for this false unity to become "universal"… a word which comes from the Greek katholikos: "catholic"—an attempt to morph and displace the true Catholic Church in which the plan of Christ will be accomplished:
For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. (Eph 1:9-10)
Human fatherhood gives us an anticipation of what He is. But when this fatherhood does not exist, when it is experienced only as a biological phenomenon, without its human and spiritual dimension, all statements about God the Father are empty. The crisis of fatherhood we are living today is an element, perhaps the most important, threatening man in his humanity. The dissolution of fatherhood and motherhood is linked to the dissolution of our being sons and daughters. —POPE BENEDICT XVI (Cardinal Ratzinger), Palermo, March 15th, 2000
Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. (CCC 675)
They have healed the wound of my people lightly saying, `Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace… I set watchmen over you, saying, `Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, `We will not give heed.’ Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them. Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it. (Jeremiah 6:14, 17-19)
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