“DEAR
READER, DO HAVE CATHOLIC GUILT?”
“Catholic
Guilt is knowing right from wrong,
and having that self-conscious emotion involving guilty feelings,
resulting
from a failure to do something that should have been done.
As always
the King James Bible has the answer … this
is simply the condition of having an unpurged conscience.
The conscience
is the moral sense, personal
standards, principles, ethics, creed or beliefs, the rights and wrongs
that a
person internally knows.
To be purged
is to be rid of something
of an unwanted quality, condition, feeling or guilt.
The Old
Testament sacrifices were done with animal
blood, and this could only ever cover their sins, as their guilt could
not be
washed away, as we can today with Christ’s 2,000 year old shed blood …
not the
‘hooch’ they serve up in churches.
Day after
day, the
Old Testament Jew would, they would go up to temple to atone for
sins in
accordance with God’s injunction as follows …
“For the
life of the flesh is in the blood: and I
have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your
souls: for it
is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” (Leviticus
17:11)
Animal
blood would be spilt but the guilt would
still be there. The next day would be the same… and the next day … and
so on.
Their
guilt associated with the sin could never
be purged …. done away with.
You see,
that’s why it’s called Catholic Guilt
today, because instead of animal blood, Catholics use pretend
blood …
the Catholic priest saying “Hocus Pocus” (hochest corpus) … Dah! Dah! I
now
have the actual blood of Jesus here in this cup.”
Pretend
blood can only produce pretend purging of
guilt.
With
animal blood, not being able to separate the
soul from the flesh of the body, the two remained connected, until the
shed
blood of Christ performed the spiritual circumcision necessary to
separate the
two (Colossian 2:11). Hence our soul can be totally cleansed, the
conscience
purged, and the guilt done away with.
The Old
Testament soul, person, not only had the
remembrance of sins … but also the guilt attached. Today, a Christian
will
remember sins but without the guilt.
Call it
what you will, everybody has
‘Catholic’ guilt. That’s just a ‘clever made-up’ title.
Everyone
has their ‘standards’ … and no one can
live up to their own. It’s called “I must become a better person” or “I
must
turn over a new leaf” or “I must stop drinking so much” and so on. The
Bible
says even without God’s Ten Commandments, we know right from wrong, as
the
Bible says as follows …
and
“For
whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet
offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” (James 2:10)
Paul in
writing to the Hebrews says “For then
would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the
worshippers once
purged should have had no more conscience of sins.”
(Hebrews 10:2)…
that is to be free from the guilt attached.
Paul says
the continuous shedding of animal blood
could not purge the conscience.
Dear
Reader, get saved trusting in the shed blood
of Christ.
Getting
saved does not mean we will have no
more remembrance of sins … we will … but there will be no more
consciousness/conscience of sins … the guilt will be gone. Bye Bye
Catholic
Guilt.
Harley
Hitchcock
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