MEDJUGORJE UPDATE: SEER'S
VIRGIN STATUE GLOWS...AS THE FACE OF MOSES SHONE??
St. Anselm's answer is that there need be no question of absolute
equality; yet to will anything against the Divine will is to seek to have that
independence which belongs to God alone, and in this respect to be equal to God. In the same sense
St. Thomas (I:63:3) answers the question, whether the Devil desired to be
"as God". If
by this we mean equality with God, then the Devil could
not desire it, since he knew
this to be impossible, and he was not blinded by pasion or evil habit so as to
choose that which is impossible, as may happen with men. And even if it were
possible for a creature to become God, an angel could not desire
this, since, by becoming equal with God he would cease to be
an angel, and no
creature can desire its own destruction or an essential change in its being.
These arguments are combated by Scotus (In II lib. Sent., dist. vi, Q.
i.), who distinguishes between efficacious volition and the volition of
complaisance, and maintains that by the latter act an angel could desire that
which is impossible. In the same way he urges that, though a creature cannot
directly will its own destruction, it can do this consequenter, i.e. it can will something from which this would
follow.
..and so it follows
that we see the devil tempts mankind through mimicry, mockery and aping of
anything Holy since his disposition is objurately inclined to be as God in
order to sufficiently register his angst and hatred on God and his beloved
creatures....
[29] And when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord. [30] And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come near.
[29] Horned: That is, shining, and sending forth rays of
light like horns.
[31] And being called by him, they returned, both Aaron and the rulers of the congregation. And after that he spoke to them. [32] And all the children of Israel came to him: and he gave them in commandment all that he had heard of the Lord in mount Sinai. [33] And having done speaking, he put a veil upon his face. [34] But when he went in to the Lord, and spoke with him, he took it away until he came forth, and then he spoke to the children of Israel all things that had been commanded him. [35] And they saw that the face of Moses when he came out was horned, but he covered his face again, if at any time he spoke to them.
...so we see in MEDJUGORJE we have either through human artifice influenced by pride of place and cunning..or by preternatural intervention we have the devil aping God...indeed we cannot make an adequate edifying parallel between the seers at MEDJUGORJE and MOSES...if we see that in the literal sense Moses through respect veiled his faced...in a moral sense he became humble after encountering in contemplation the place where God was..and in an anagogical mystical way one might say that the face of the soul of MOSES being his intellect which is the place where the eye of mind resides became illuminated with the truth of God and so shone as if enlightened...
..we see in MEDJUGORJE this is not occurring since the seers are not humble..they do not seek to submit themselves to the spiritual stewards of God (the local Ordinaries and Rome)...and so we see a mockery of all things good..a sign of infernal tampering....
..is one to believe that the seer at MEDJUGORJE is so Holy that by her presence the statue of the Virgin glows or through some other sort of misconjuctive device we are to believe without question betraying our faith to contrived circumstance....
..of course we are told by the proponents at this place that... a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit and an evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit..yet this is a classic MEDJUGORJE tactic of taking scripture and employing it out of context...improper exegesis...
..if we see in the summa theological of Thomas Aquinas....
The tree in this context is to be understood as the will of the soul...since indeed a good tree can and may bring forth evil fruit..just as a good family can out of 4 children have one evil one and three good wholesome children let us read what follows...
...on the cause of evil..
Article 1. Whether good can be the cause of evil?
Objection 1. It would seem that good cannot be the cause of evil. For it is said (Matthew 7:18):
"A good tree
cannot bring forth evil
fruit."...........
Reply to Objection 1. As Augustine
says (Contra Julian. i): "The Lord calls an evil will the evil tree, and a good will a good tree." Now, a good will does not
produce a morally bad act, since it is from the good will itself that a
moral act is judged to be good.
Nevertheless the movement itself of an evil will is caused by the rational
creature, which is good;
and thus good is the cause of evil.
..and so one sees that indeed a good can and does bring about evil in an incidental way...through inordinate desiring....so of course we see proponents of MEDJUGORJE using this scripture and it has indeed undermined their cause since the will of the seers is contrary to two local Bishops in good standing as well as to a Vatican decree that the supernaturality of the phenomenon cannot be ascertained...yet the seers arrogantly claim otherwise....through imperious holiness..the evil will of the seers cannot bring forth good fruit..yet the presence of the sacraments at this place can and indeed does bring forth good fruit and so we have contention...and confusion...let us all examine ourselves with a spirit of recollection ........amen...........
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