The John-Henry Westen Show - May 07, 2024


The Antichrist's False Religion and Its Spread Across the World


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31 minutes

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Summary

Can man be good without Jesus Christ? Catholics believe that the Antichrist will rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and reimpose aspects of the Jewish religion. He will later throw off any claim of being the Moshiach and deny all religion altogether.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 These Catholic saints think that the Antichrist will rebuild the temple in Jerusalem and reimpose
00:00:06.100 aspects of the Jewish religion. He will present himself as divine and demand to be worshipped
00:00:11.660 in the temple. He will later throw off any claim of being the Moshiach and deny all religion
00:00:17.820 altogether. Welcome back to the second part of everything you need to know about the Catholic
00:00:29.360 teaching on the Antichrist. Can man be good without Jesus Christ? Over the last few centuries,
00:00:36.780 the possibility of being good without Christ has been cherished as an idea of all sorts of
00:00:43.160 anti-Christian groups. It's the idea that the Enlightenment had, the idea of the French Revolution,
00:00:49.780 of Freemasonry, of Communism, and in our day, Modernism and the advocates of the inter-religious
00:00:56.320 dialogue. And all of these ideas converge together in this idea of being good without Christ, which is
00:01:02.980 the central assumption of a little-known but growing religion, which may be destined to sweep
00:01:10.880 the world in the early stages of the Antichrist's horrible reign. Its promoters are already in high
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00:02:35.140 Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
00:02:40.000 and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Before we saw that Catholic theologians think that the Antichrist will
00:02:47.900 deceive the Jewish people into thinking that he is their long-awaited Messiah, the Mosheach, as they
00:02:53.720 call him. These Catholic saints think that the Antichrist will rebuild the temple in Jerusalem
00:02:59.520 and reimpose aspects of the Jewish religion. At some point during his reign, he will present himself
00:03:07.020 as divine and demand to be worshipped in the temple. He will later throw off any claim of being the
00:03:13.180 Mosheach and deny all religion altogether and say he is God himself. In this series, we're considering
00:03:20.740 the fascinating alignment between what we Catholics expect of the Antichrist and what some Jewish
00:03:26.780 authorities expect of the Mosheach. And they're eerily similar. For example, the religious persecution
00:03:35.020 of Antichrist is very similar to the religious utopia of the earthly Mosheach. At an early stage,
00:03:42.700 Antichrist will be denying the divinity of Christ, the Holy Trinity, and the Christian religion itself.
00:03:48.800 After all, he can't claim to be the earthly Mosheach of the Jews without doing so, at least implicitly.
00:03:55.580 This persecution will first come, it seems, in the form of another false religion imposed at the
00:04:01.840 expense of the true religion. Antichrist will start with a show of benevolence, so it seems likely that
00:04:09.300 this religion will claim to make man good, naturally good, without Christ and his grace.
00:04:15.220 This is what's called naturalism. Naturalism and the related idea of rationalism is a ruling out
00:04:23.760 of the supernatural. There are many things about God and morality which can be known through natural
00:04:30.400 reason alone. For example, God exists, he is one, he is perfect. We should render everyone what they
00:04:37.380 are due. Innocent men have a right to their lives, therefore murder is unjust and wrong. An unborn baby
00:04:43.520 is a human, a man, and therefore killing one is unjust and wrong. And that's all great. The problem
00:04:52.580 arises when we either exclude the possibility of the supernatural, anything above nature, or when we
00:04:58.720 exclude the actual objective supernatural revelation which has come to us from Jesus Christ and his
00:05:05.340 church. But naturalism is not just the denial of the possibility that God could have elevated our
00:05:11.080 natural life in order, or just the denial of that order itself. It's also the denial of the objective
00:05:19.720 fact that Christ, who is who he said he was, God incarnate and the Redeemer. It's the denial of the Holy
00:05:29.000 Trinity and the redemption, the life of grace and the church. You can't get around that by professing
00:05:36.380 belief in another supernatural order because there is no other supernatural order. Naturalism is also the
00:05:44.360 affirmation that society itself should be organized along the lines of this denial of the supernatural
00:05:51.080 order. In other words, society, laws, and government should act as if it wasn't really known or certain
00:05:58.360 that Jesus Christ is God, and so on. These objective supernatural truths need to be relegated to the private
00:06:07.360 sphere of opinion, we are told, because they are supernatural. So, if that sounds reasonable to you,
00:06:15.600 that's because the ideas of liberty of religion or liberty of worship, as well as the separation of
00:06:21.400 church and state, have been in the main ideologies, the mainstream, advanced since the Enlightenment and
00:06:28.780 the French Revolution. The goal has been the de-Christianization of society and the fantasy of being good
00:06:36.440 without Jesus Christ. It's about denying that civil society itself has certain clear duties towards
00:06:43.260 God and the true religion. Pope St. Leo XIII condemned this approach in 1889 and called it, and I quote,
00:06:52.740 the legal apostasy of society from its divine author, end quote. Society has to recognize Christ is king
00:07:00.520 and govern and worship accordingly. My point is just to show how entrenched these ideas are in our
00:07:08.940 society. Many of us would shrink from the idea of saying that the Catholic Church should be the religion
00:07:15.640 of the state. But the alternative is state agnosticism, which is this legal apostasy and yet another form of
00:07:23.400 naturalism. This is accepting Christianity as one of the many possible permitted religions. It's allowing
00:07:30.100 Jesus, at best, a place in a pantheon of gods or wise moral teachers, but without affirming the truth
00:07:37.660 that is that he is the divine Messiah, the redeemer of the human race and the second person of a triune
00:07:45.040 God. This denial is itself the special mark of the Antichrist, according to St. John in his epistles.
00:07:51.520 He writes, and I quote, who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist,
00:07:58.400 the one who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father. He that
00:08:04.840 confesses the Son has the Father. That's from 1 John 2, 22 and 23. And in his second epistle,
00:08:13.940 St. John writes, for many seducers are gone out into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come
00:08:20.500 in the flesh. Such a one is a seducer and an Antichrist, 2 John 1, 7. So any person or state
00:08:30.160 which adopts naturalist principles can be said in St. John's terms to be Antichrist. This is why he
00:08:36.560 talks of many Antichrists, many Antichrists, if you will, who prepare the way or prepare the way over
00:08:44.680 the centuries for the Antichrist. It is very striking, therefore, that this naturalist departure
00:08:50.920 from Christ is precisely what significant Jewish authorities expect to occur under their earthly
00:08:58.240 Moshiach. And indeed, that such a departure is a necessary means of preparing for the coming of
00:09:05.260 their Moshiach. Let's see what they have to say about it.
00:09:08.760 Maimonides, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, or Rambam as he's called, is an enormously influential 12th
00:09:18.340 century Jewish rabbi. He states that once the Moshiach has rebuilt the temple, it will become
00:09:24.180 the focus of a worldwide religion. He says that Moshiach, and I quote, will improve the entire world,
00:09:30.640 motivating all the nations to serve God together. And he quotes the prophet Zephaniah saying,
00:09:36.040 all will call upon the name of God and serve him with one purpose. So, serve God together,
00:09:41.980 serve him with one purpose. In this context, from this man, that sounds like a one-world religion,
00:09:48.740 right? Well, so does that mean that we will all be forced to become Jews? Well, actually,
00:09:54.880 it's more complex than that. Maimonides and those following him certainly did not think that the whole
00:10:01.560 world would become Jewish. Far from it, in fact. It's well known that Jewish religion does not
00:10:07.280 actively seek converts. There are several reasons for that, including some esoteric ideas about the
00:10:12.640 Jewish soul and the relative status of Jews and non-Jews. But another reason is that they don't
00:10:18.180 believe that you have to be a member of Judaism to have a portion in the world to come. So, quite
00:10:25.100 different to the idea that you have to be in the church to be saved. We all believe that the old
00:10:31.360 covenant, the Torah, was given by God to Moses so that the Jewish people could be a light to the
00:10:38.380 nations. These writers, though, think that after the Mosheach restores the full Jewish religion
00:10:44.160 and the temple, he and the Jewish people will together be this light to the nations. By teaching
00:10:52.140 us Gentiles about God, leading us to recognize the God of Israel, recognizing the Mosheach as king
00:10:59.380 and coming to worship God in Jerusalem, but not as Jews. Now, you might be thinking, hasn't this
00:11:08.000 already happened? Haven't a collection of Jewish men and women already brought knowledge of the God of
00:11:14.640 Israel to the whole world already? Don't we already see everything I just said fulfilled? Well, yes,
00:11:21.120 they have brought this knowledge. Yes, we do already see it fulfilled in Christ and his Catholic
00:11:26.760 church, and it's amazing. But that's not what the Jewish people are expecting. As we know from the
00:11:33.540 Gospels, they expected an earthly Messiah who would liberate them from the Romans, establish an earthly
00:11:39.780 peace, and that any Gentiles wanting to worship the God of Israel would be doing so in accordance
00:11:45.880 with what they will teach them. Nor is this a secret. There's already a name for the system which
00:11:53.520 they will supposedly enlighten us Gentiles with in the Messianic age. It's called the seven
00:11:59.720 Noahide laws, or Noahidism. And we could even call it a Noahide religion. These laws appear in the Talmud,
00:12:09.440 which is the main holy book of the Jewish religion. The Talmud claims that six commandments were given
00:12:16.880 to Adam himself, with the seventh being given to Noah after the flood, and that's why they call them
00:12:22.320 the Noahide laws. And one who follows them is a Noahide. One respected rabbi summarized this by saying
00:12:30.980 that there was no concern for Gentiles to become Jews, just for the observance of the ancient religion
00:12:37.760 of Noah, the only religion incumbent on all who are not Israelites, end quote. So Maimonides himself
00:12:45.120 seems to refer to these laws as, and I quote, the true faith. Namely, that the true faith of which
00:12:52.700 Judaism and the Noahide religion are each expressions for Jew and Gentile respectively. So here are the
00:13:00.180 Noahide laws. No idolatry or false gods, no cursing God, no murder, no incest or adultery,
00:13:07.000 no theft, no theft, established laws and courts of justice, no eating flesh from a living animal.
00:13:15.260 And that's it. That's the Noahide religion. You have to profess belief in one God and obey these
00:13:21.740 six rules. A non-Jew just has to obey these laws, albeit specifically because he believes God gave them
00:13:29.820 and he will merit a place in the world to come. However, he just has to obey them.
00:13:34.940 This is the only true religion of the Gentiles, we're told, and it's what we should be holding now,
00:13:40.880 and it's apparently what we will be holding in the Messianic age. It's very simple. In fact,
00:13:47.820 it's so simple that those who are already Noahides and the Jewish people who are involved with such
00:13:53.920 Noahides have noticed in their own words that this religion is just, and I quote,
00:13:59.900 a formless set of vague moral guidelines, end quote, and in need of something to fill again,
00:14:05.640 and I'm quoting, the void and lingering hole left by lack of an active, defined spiritual life.
00:14:13.340 For that reason, because as a movement it's a relatively modern phenomenon,
00:14:18.180 some rabbis are putting together prayer books and rituals for these Noahides. But all in all,
00:14:25.320 this sounds pretty unsatisfying and artificial. This may be an aspect of what's meant by the
00:14:32.720 Jews being the chosen people. We Catholics understand that Jews have been chosen for the
00:14:38.500 sake of preserving God's revelation, serving as the cradle of Christ, and for bringing his gospel
00:14:44.900 to us Gentiles. But the Noahide system makes it almost seem like they are chosen to be the only
00:14:52.340 ones who will really know God at all, at least in this life. There are other aspects too, which you can
00:15:00.500 read about in the articles below. Some authorities think these seven laws aren't all. Others think that
00:15:08.040 it is just setting the standard by which other religions can be practiced. Plus, in the abstract,
00:15:15.940 the seven laws appear to be similar to the Ten Commandments, don't they? Yes, sure, but who gets
00:15:22.000 to decide whether another religion is compatible and who gets to administer and interpret these laws?
00:15:29.300 Well, I can tell you one thing. It's not going to fall to Christians themselves, nor is it going to
00:15:34.740 fall to Noahides themselves. It's going to fall on those who are, and I quote, the light of the nations
00:15:40.660 in that paradigm. And you can see that here, where one rabbi says that there are different views on
00:15:48.300 whether Christianity is compatible with Noahide laws, and he advises these non-Jews to speak to
00:15:54.500 their Noahide rabbi. Let's take a look.
00:15:57.320 So, as a result, you know, you can tell the non-Jewish friends that there are views that would
00:16:04.540 consider this to be a fulfillment of the Noahide law, and there are other views that argue,
00:16:08.500 and therefore speak to your Noahide rabbi about which way, which way to go.
00:16:15.060 But whoever heard of Christians being submitted to a Noahide rabbi in the practice of the Christian
00:16:20.540 religion. And in fact, when the supposedly earthly Moshiach comes, it looks like it will be him
00:16:28.420 who administers and decides on these matters for the whole wide world. Now, if there ever were to be
00:16:36.300 a man acclaimed as the earthly Moshiach, whether he really be the Antichrist or not, the imposition of
00:16:43.280 the Noahide religion would be massively problematic for Christians for two reasons. First of all,
00:16:50.540 while there definitely are some ambiguous or nuanced views, the Noahide laws are widely understood to
00:16:58.220 ban the worship of the triune God. This is because Christians are deemed by many in this paradigm to
00:17:04.780 be idolaters, to engage in idol worship of a false god. Christianity itself is thought to have brought
00:17:12.260 untold problems to the world too. Here's Maimonides again, and note that he says that
00:17:20.520 we do not serve the true God. And I quote, this is Maimonides from the 12th century, very famous
00:17:26.960 rabbi. He says, quote, Christianity caused the Jews to be slain by the sword, their remnants to be
00:17:34.700 scattered and humbled, the Torah to be altered, and the majority of the world to err and serve a god
00:17:41.440 other than the Lord, end quote. Another really significant medieval authority famously claimed that
00:17:48.060 the Trinity is idol worship. The idea that we are idolaters is really very common. And these sorts of
00:17:56.520 books are recommended to Noahides on popular websites. Now, we know that we're not idol worshipers, and
00:18:06.540 some apologists try to prove that in dialogue, and that's an important thing to do for evangelization.
00:18:11.920 But general opinions are not going to be changed by dialogue like that against such strong authorities
00:18:20.000 in the Jewish faith and also the weight of history. Their whole history of for 2,000 years has called
00:18:28.700 Catholics or Christians idolaters. Now, look, Maimonides says that it's a mitzvah, a commandment to destroy
00:18:38.460 false gods in the land of Israel and any conquered land. And one fairly prominent rabbi says that even
00:18:44.920 according to the more liberal position, which allows Gentiles to believe in some form of Christianity,
00:18:50.680 you could say, Jews are obligated to destroy their objects of worship and churches, end quote.
00:18:56.900 So, and again, those are for the lands in Israel and those lands conquered by the Jews.
00:19:02.520 But these men are debating whether and when it's right to destroy Christian churches in the land
00:19:10.040 of Israel, which, by the way, includes Palestine for many people. Now, here's an example of a rabbi
00:19:18.660 explaining what has to be done in and out of Israel.
00:19:23.060 Now, there's a difference in this mitzvah, whether it's in Israel or out of Israel. In Israel, we actually
00:19:27.840 have a mitzvah to seek out the idols, to make sure that every single one is destroyed. Out of Israel,
00:19:33.160 we don't have to actively go and seek them out unless we conquer that part and then we have to destroy
00:19:38.300 the idols in the location that we destroyed. Where do we know the difference between Israel and out of Israel?
00:19:43.780 The Torah says,
00:19:44.360 And what's the punishment for idolatry? Well, it depends. And it's sometimes unclear what the
00:19:59.560 authorities are really saying. They themselves admit that they have to speak obscurely at times
00:20:05.160 to avoid angering Christians. Maimonides says,
00:20:11.560 A Noahide, and I'm quoting,
00:20:13.360 A Noahide is executed for every type of foreign worship which a Jewish court would consider worthy
00:20:19.640 of capital punishment, end quote. He then says that Noahides aren't to be executed for foreign worship
00:20:26.560 which a Jewish court wouldn't deem worthy of death, but he is nonetheless forbidden to engage in it.
00:20:35.160 So, no capital punishment, but it's still wrong, pending whatever other penalty.
00:20:40.100 So, is Christianity a form of idolatry worthy of death?
00:20:44.380 So, let's take a look at what some think we are and we aren't allowed to do.
00:20:49.180 So, if a Gentile worships an idol in the way that it's normally worshipped, whatever the form of that
00:20:53.660 pagan worship is, they have violated their mitzvah. They violated this commandment.
00:20:57.900 If a Jew were to be put to death for that act, then a Gentile would be put to death for the same act.
00:21:03.420 If a Jew would not be put to death for whatever form of worship, as we've learned in details,
00:21:08.440 all the laws of pagan worship, then a Gentile is not put to death for that form of worship as well.
00:21:13.320 But it's still forbidden that he's not put to death.
00:21:16.040 They're not allowed to even put up a monument for a pagan deity.
00:21:19.260 They're not allowed to plant a tree.
00:21:20.420 They would gather around trees under the shade, the Asherah trees.
00:21:22.720 And they cannot create any images, forms, that are for pagan worship.
00:21:30.620 It's really difficult to tell from this whether Christianity would be a form of worship worthy of death.
00:21:35.920 But either way, it seems that it will be forbidden.
00:21:39.980 As I said, there are many who claim that Christians are not idolaters.
00:21:43.960 But there are many who claim that we are.
00:21:47.520 And there's no central authority to decide all of this.
00:21:50.720 But we can see how Christianity is viewed by some by considering the hostile treatment of Christians in the Holy Land.
00:21:58.020 Christians, especially priests, are spat upon and churches and cemeteries, they're vandalized.
00:22:04.380 In 2023, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem indicated that this has increased since Netanyahu's coalition government came into power.
00:22:13.640 This is because these attitudes, these anti-Christian attitudes, also exist among those in power.
00:22:23.380 Certain elected politicians propose legislation to criminalize attempts to tell others about Jesus Christ and Christianity.
00:22:30.260 Check out that. We had that headline at LifeSite because it was already reported all over the world.
00:22:36.480 A fellow by the name of Atamar Ben-Gavir, a key figure in the coalition of Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:22:43.880 has praised activists who called Christianity that cursed religion and Christians blood-sucking vampires.
00:22:53.360 No, I kid you not.
00:22:54.160 In 2023, that same Ben-Gavir spoke against treating spitting at Christians as a criminal case.
00:23:03.100 He said, not everything justifies an arrest.
00:23:06.960 So he's speaking against the law, the coming down on Jews who would spit at Christian priests and people.
00:23:14.740 And before this politician was in politics, according to the Times of Israel,
00:23:21.740 he justified spitting towards Christians as, and I quote, an ancient Jewish custom.
00:23:27.680 Here's a video of that ancient Jewish custom in practice.
00:23:32.120 A Lutheran minister recently recounted more such examples in a 2024 interview with Tucker Carlson.
00:23:45.960 Here's his take on some of this.
00:23:48.060 Many Israeli politicians try to pass laws that prevent Christians from sharing their faith.
00:23:57.120 And so there is always this struggle and this tension about how much can Christians express their faith.
00:24:05.040 Now, the biggest problem Christians are facing is in East Jerusalem,
00:24:08.880 where they are constantly targeted by radical groups, radical Jewish groups.
00:24:14.100 Let's be clear.
00:24:15.820 Sometimes some churches, they tried, there was an attempt to burn them.
00:24:20.280 Often times, and this is, you can look at it on social media, all over the place,
00:24:28.160 Christian clergy being spit at by these groups.
00:24:33.120 They write very offensive slogans on the world.
00:24:36.380 There's strong incitements against Christians, especially in the old city of Jerusalem.
00:24:41.840 So, I know that some of you will be thinking, well, this is all really bad, but don't be crazy.
00:24:48.440 None of these guys would really think that Christianity is a form of idolatry worthy of death.
00:24:53.460 Well, here's a fellow in Israel just a few months ago, in 2023.
00:24:59.180 He wouldn't agree with you.
00:25:00.540 Let's take a look.
00:25:02.060 You're not in the United States. You're in Israel.
00:25:03.880 I understand.
00:25:04.300 You cannot say whatever you want to say here.
00:25:05.940 Yes, you can. It's legal. It is legal to preach about Yeshua.
00:25:10.580 We preach at Damascus Gate. The police say it's okay.
00:25:14.120 We preach at Jaffa Gate. The police say it's okay.
00:25:18.040 Please stop.
00:25:21.580 I respect you. Respect me.
00:25:23.880 It doesn't have to respect you.
00:25:25.320 Huh?
00:25:25.700 It doesn't have to respect you.
00:25:27.780 That is the right thing. Are you Jewish?
00:25:30.100 Do you want to honor God?
00:25:32.340 That is the godly thing to do. We respect one another.
00:25:34.880 The godly thing to do is to kill you.
00:25:36.660 The godly thing is to kill me.
00:25:38.160 That's right. That's what the Torah says.
00:25:39.580 The Torah says to kill us.
00:25:40.840 The Torah says that people who worship idols such as yourself, when there is a Sanhedrin...
00:25:46.880 To kill us.
00:25:49.120 Yes.
00:25:49.600 Okay.
00:25:50.120 That's what the Torah says.
00:25:50.720 So we know how the Jewish people feel about Christians, yes?
00:25:53.920 That you discriminate against Christians.
00:25:55.440 Christians are idol worshipers.
00:25:56.200 You discriminate against Christians.
00:25:57.280 The Torah says that Christianity is idol worship.
00:25:59.720 As far as I can see, this is just some normal guy expressing these ideas.
00:26:05.920 But wait, there is one possible way that Christianity could be tolerated.
00:26:11.220 But that's not going to be acceptable to Christians at all.
00:26:17.020 It's about the purification of Christianity.
00:26:20.040 Some writers have spoken as if Christianity can be tolerated as a kind of ethical monotheism.
00:26:26.500 Some authorities are even more specific.
00:26:29.940 They suggest that while some form of Christianity could perhaps be tolerated amongst the Gentiles
00:26:35.860 in a Noahide context, it will need to be purified and reimagined in order to take it away from
00:26:42.580 idolatry.
00:26:44.200 One influential 19th century rabbi believed that it was possible, in fact necessary, and
00:26:50.940 even inevitable, that Christianity would be drawn back into union with Judaism.
00:26:55.420 But not through the conversion of the Jews to Christianity, of course.
00:27:00.380 The Christianity that would emerge from this alliance and purification would, he said, be,
00:27:05.820 and I quote, all the more orthodox as it would have strengthened itself by drawing on
00:27:11.800 an orthodoxy older than itself, end quote.
00:27:14.420 And thus strengthened it would, and I quote again, satisfy the needs of men better than the
00:27:19.560 present Christian churches can do, end quote.
00:27:22.440 Wow, aren't those big promises?
00:27:24.240 So how will this come about?
00:27:26.520 Well, surprise, surprise, it will be by rethinking and reimagining what he calls, and I'm sorry
00:27:33.000 to repeat such blasphemy, and I quote, the problematic personage of Jesus.
00:27:38.800 So, according to him, and so many others through history, our Lord was a good Jew who did not
00:27:48.140 dream of founding a rival church, and he had no notion of setting himself up as the founder
00:27:54.060 of a religious movement to be created in his name.
00:27:57.900 This rabbi also suggests that the Holy Trinity is a distortion of the original view of the divine
00:28:04.540 emanations found in Kabbalah, a predominant school of Jewish mysticism.
00:28:09.600 He says that Christianity will be reformed on its first model, and that this will come
00:28:15.640 about through Judaism itself.
00:28:18.200 He seems to try and encourage any Christian readers by saying that once reformed, Christianity
00:28:23.600 will always be the religion of the Gentile peoples.
00:28:26.980 Other rabbis have expressed similarly tolerant views.
00:28:31.800 The problem is that this isn't Christianity at all.
00:28:36.080 Redefining the Holy Trinity along these lines would end up with a redefinition of the incarnation,
00:28:43.940 of the divinity of Christ, as well as of redemption.
00:28:47.060 That's because if God really isn't triune, then there is no God, the Son, to become the
00:28:53.060 man, Jesus Christ.
00:28:54.680 But if Jesus was a wise teacher and not the incarnate God, then his death was just a tragedy
00:29:02.340 and not an infinitely pleasing sacrifice offered in atonement for our sins.
00:29:07.520 So that would mean that we haven't been redeemed.
00:29:10.180 We're still in our sins.
00:29:12.120 It would also mean that there's no grace or merit won by Christ to be applied to us.
00:29:16.480 So that means no supernatural order, no sanctification, no mystical body for us to be incorporated
00:29:22.040 into.
00:29:23.060 Nothing.
00:29:24.640 Purifying Christianity so that it becomes compatible with the Noahide religion would result in the
00:29:30.680 fundamental denial of these most basic dogmas.
00:29:34.880 It doesn't matter if we're allowed to keep some Christian terms, to keep our beloved Jesus
00:29:40.560 as a mere human rabbi, or even to talk of a trinity in which the Son and the Holy Ghost
00:29:46.640 are sort of helpers or partners of God rather than being the second and third persons of the
00:29:52.520 triune Godhead.
00:29:54.220 In fact, the idea of keeping the words and changing the meanings is precisely how one pre-consular
00:30:02.100 theologian defined the heresy of modernism.
00:30:04.800 He portrayed it as a set of heresies which presumed to elevate and save Christianity by this kind
00:30:12.720 of purification and end in a hybrid of verbal Catholicism and naturalism.
00:30:20.400 Whichever way you splice it, the Noahide laws end up in naturalism.
00:30:25.900 If this is what is entailed, this naturalism is not a purification at all.
00:30:32.120 It's apostasy.
00:30:33.300 And this naturalism is what a significant Jewish school of thought believes will be imposed when
00:30:40.840 their earthly Moshiach arrives.
00:30:43.340 The Jews will have a renewed Judaism with the temple and the Gentiles will submit to the
00:30:49.400 seven laws of Noah.
00:30:51.740 I'm going to be honest.
00:30:53.240 Given all this, it doesn't seem very likely to me that an unpurified Christianity which worships
00:30:59.340 the triune God and the incarnate Son of God is going to be deemed an acceptable form of
00:31:05.100 idolatry in a Noahide regime.
00:31:07.880 The next part of this series, we're going to see just how frighteningly similar this is to
00:31:15.280 what Catholic theologians and mystics have expected from the Antichrist, his reign and the false
00:31:22.000 religion which he will force on the world at the expense of the Catholic faith.
00:31:28.040 You're not going to want to miss that.
00:31:30.380 For Life's 8 News, this is John Henry Weston.
00:31:32.920 And may God bless you.