charismatic heresy

UNMASKING THE CHARISMATIC HERESY "For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths" 2 Timothy 4:3-4 - "False messiahs and false prophets will arise and will perform signs and wonders in order to mislead, if that were possible, the elect" Mark 13: 22 - "The smoke of Satan has entered the Church" Pope Paul VI

11.19.2006

GRACE OR CURSE



"Then it seemed to me that the heavens opened, and I felt something like electricity go through my body. I began, without effort, to speak in a language I had not previously learned." John Sherrill, “They Speak with Other Tongues”

Charismatic teaching places great emphasis on tongues and emotional experiences; that tongues and emotional experiences are signs for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The implication of course is that tongue speaking and emotional experiences are normative accompaniments of conferred grace. The charismatic teaching of course contradicts Catholic teaching.

The Catechism of the Council of Trent defines Sacrament as "a visible sign of an invisible grace, instituted for our justification." The Catholic Church has not changed its teaching on the conferral of grace. The Church identifies the conferral of grace as the sacramental sign itself. So the charismatic belief that emotional experience or tongue speaking are signs of conferred grace is absurd.

So then… charismatic tongues, if not to be confused with biblical tongues, are signs of what? Babel?

at 19.11.06

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I am a recovering charismatic and a Catholic Orthodox; observing orthopraxis to the best of my ability. I acknowledge what the Church REALLY DOES TEACH; opposed to what some people erroneously say the Church teaches. “Catholic Orthodoxy” is proposed "to conform to the Catholic faith as taught by the Magisterium of the Church. So an "orthodox" person is one who is FAITHFUL to the teachings of the Church, whereas a "heterodox" person is somebody who rejects ANY Catholic dogma. Orthopraxis means "Performing the correct actions". Catholic Orthodoxy is defined by the Catechism: it tells us what we have to TO BELIEVE. Catholic Orthopraxis is denoted by the Code of Canon Law: it spells out what we have TO DO. Because “Truth is not determined by a majority vote" -- Pope Benedict XVI.

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