T-fish Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 If God is the Supreme, The Almighty, The Beginning and the End, then who says we cannot participate in other chrisitan services or even attend and participate in other religious services? If I didn't read the Upanisads, I might not know as much about God as I do. Is not Passover our Eucharist? Is not Jesus an incarnation like Krishna? But Really, I just want to know where in the Catholic Law does it say if a Catholic goes to another Christian gathering that they cannot participate. If you go there are you not participating in hearing The Word? Can someone show me in the Roman Catholic Law where it says you cannot take bread in other churches? But then we are told to vote for a mormon? I'm confused. I thought we were supposed to be ecumenical as in embracing every religion as our own peoples, as we would mimic Christ within us. Thanx. Cappie wrote. Don't know about the Summa but God did not have to be Jewish for Jesus to be. As I understand it, in Christian thought, Jesus is the incarnation of God in the flesh. As a result, Jesus had dual components. He was 100% divine and 100% human as opposed to God the Father who is entirely divine. One of Jesus's human characteristics was that he was Jewish. Correspondingly, one of his divine characteristics, according to Christianity, is that he healed people, even in contravention to Pharisaic (contemporary Jewish) Law. Jesus's Judaism does not imply or indicate God's religion and in Christianity, God is explicitly the God of All Peoples at All Times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theoketos Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Observation of other religious rites, while licit, is obviously dangerous because adoption of them is far more likely if you see them. Take your own case of which I practically know nothing beside this post. Further, he who listens to the successors of the apostles listens to Christ. If they bind us to a discipline, like not participating in pagan rites, then we should listen to them because in doing so we listen to Christ. Canon law is explicit about this. The incarnation of Christ is different than the incarnation of Krishna. The veracity of both cannot simultaneous. The theology in the Prologue of John and the Nicene Creed rules this out. The passover rights of the Jewish religion were superseded with the establishment of the Christian religion by his dying and resurrection. While dialogue and the embrace of solidarity toward the common includes every one of every religion, there is but one way to the Father. And perhaps if we concentrated less on how those without the ordinary means of salvation may see God, we could focus on the consequences of us for us if we do not share Jesus and the joy of the Gospel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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