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

RELIGIOUSNESS




When the weather is good, God gives him a wonderful day. He would never consider that there might be a flood somewhere else wiping out life and property. He truly believes that God somehow arranged the weather just to make him happy.

The desire for intimacy with God is basic human longing. Ultimately that is what Ned Flanders is after, yet intimacy with God seems to escape him. Flanders lives in charismaland; the theological wasteland, that leaves him ungrounded and disconnected from orthodoxy.

Overt religiousness is not a private problem. The religious addict affects everyone he comes in contact with; his family, friends, coworkers, even the stranger he meets down at the mall. Believing he is a representative of God; he tries to bring light to those who live in darkness. He can be an oppressive church leader, but most often he just makes people uncomfortable and embarrassed, for him, because of all his God-talk. According to Homer 'Ned is holier than Jesus'. His door bell plays Kumbaya or Onward Christian Soldier. He has Shroud of Turin beach towels and a Lot's Wife salt-shaker. He attends every possible church function to have his daily fix of ‘vitamin church’. He withdraws from friends and family who do not think like him. He is obsessed with the thought of not having done enough. Religion for him is an attempt to control his life (and God) by behaving a certain way. But the harder he tries the more depressed he becomes. His spiritual life is performance-oriented rather than the rest Jesus promised. "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28)

Symptoms of Charismata Addiction

• Faith is black and white
• Pursuit of friends and family to convert
• Isolation from those with different beliefs
• World, flesh is inherently evil
• Obsession with worship, Bible
• Addiction to praise music
• Getting messages from God
• Judging others
• God talk, quoting from Scripture
• Discourage thinking, questioning
• Inability to accept criticism
• Suffer depression and anxiety
• Going into trances

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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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