In re those implying Socialism or any other collectivist form of government or society is God’s Will, such as two rogue anti-Vatican nuns Obama recently elevated to the (seemingly unconstitutional) office of Faith-Based Initiatives (see report at http://badgercatholic.blogspot.com/2011/02/obama-rewards-la-crosse-nun-for.htm and confirmed at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/02/04/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts-2411 ).

As if the fiction of “Liberal historic Jesus” weren’t enough, another point of attack on historical Christ is vested in a certain opinion on eschatology.

The certain opinion relied on to erase historical Jesus is a mere reaction to Christ’s eschatological teachings, some of which weren’t even uttered by Him (in the ‘Jesus over audiences’ heads vein): there will be a final judgment, and the re-making of many societies into a new earth leaves all righteous people in sustainable quarters without work, everybody else filthy outcasts as part of God’s judgment upon them…this Judgment being automatic with no second appearance of Christ.

There are huge errors in such opinion. First, an automatic Judgment sans Christ is an ancient Gnostic (e.g., Sophist) concept, even if carried into Seventh Day Adventist or any other doctrine…it’s originally mere Gnostic speculation.

Second, look at relevant Gospels and Revelation. A new earth happens only first after a cataclysmic end to all earth, with a new earth not being part of any Judgment or end-time prior to a cataclysmic end. That is, God’s Judgment on souls is Scripturally more important than the phenomena of final days, which have no relation to the soul or any form (if any) it may have post-cataclysm.

Thus, to claim any culture is a Judgment of God or Holy New Earth, and then proclaim it “Sola Scriptura”, is pure non-Scriptural subjective opinion and repression of simple Scripture itself…not to mention purely humanly-elective naming of “goats” and “sheep”, for the pleasure of other than God.

It definitely takes more than the affirmation of a government office and “say-so God-breathed intuition” of anyone to uproot 2,000 years of anything…one thing Benedict XVI isn’t shy about is scientific, intellectual, and prayerful developed conversation on matters of faith. Too bad nobody in American Catholic education and such seems more interested in other earning a living in tightening times by playing Rasputin or re-educator for whoever has the do-re-mi or puts them on mastheads.