The Freedom of Empty Bombast and Licentious Desires
What a connection was made in my mind today! When I read for the first time the New Testament letters of Peter. The Catholic Epistles are an amazing resource to explain against the errors of the women of our time.
In 2 Peter 1:20-21, the author writes, "Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God." No Reformation emphasis on Sola Fide or individual interpretation, however good the intention, can ever be said to claim any real authority under God. My words here now contain no authority if anything within them contradicts a fundamental doctrine or sensus fidelium of the Church.
Moreover, the fervant desire against heresy in favor of orthodox doctrine is a weight of truth against the arguement that Christianity is only a matter of "being a good person" or letting it be up to personal opinion because "no one really knows" and "only God judges". For even in Paul's letters, "there are some things hard to understand that the ignorant and the unstable distort to their own distruction just as they do the other scriptures" (2 Peter 3:16). For "there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies"(2 Peter 2:1).There is Truth. And there is a right answer.
Moreover, for me, Second Peter's description of these false prophets at the end of Chapter 2 is a haunting portrayl of old feminist error. He writes,
The weight and potency of the empty bombast of "consciousness-raising" and "reclamations of power". The seductive desire of quarter-filled sex that denies procreation and thus true unity. The licentiousness of promiscuity, concubinage and on-demand divorce. All advocated by those who had barely escaped living in error - not in Peter's sense of Jews or Gentiles just recently converting to Christianity, rather, of falling away from his Gospel and his Church. The foremost feminist activists and scholars have disproportionately arisen among those who reject the Catholic faith. In order to advocate along the typical strains of old feminism, I would argue, you'd have to.
Old feminists promise the freedom of all the world, yet they are slaves of what has overcome them - the distorted masculine dispensation for power, lust and revenge and their own over-reliance on sentimentality and personal authority. Is it not better to be a slave of Christ?
The most dispairing cases being those who were once in the fold and who now reject its truth, light and love: Catholic women for "free choice" as if a decision to kill one's child was a power of liberation, proponents of a female priesthood which would deny their own authority and glory and worshippers of a female goddess who cannot ever be considered the Christian God. They had something of the truth, yet somehow they were led away. The Church must take the initiative to reconnect, touch, explain and bring them back as well as take responsibility for the women and girls struggling to see the light under her wings. So many have had their bodies washed clean through the waters of Baptism, but have yet returned to the sloth and darkness of the fetid mire. Mary, pray for your daughters!
Blessed are they who do not give in to the apple of domination but who when insulted, return no insult and when suffering, return no threats (1 Peter 2:23). For all that you do humbly, obediently and lovingly in the name of Christian Truth, blessed, blessed are you. (1 Peter 4:13-14)
In 2 Peter 1:20-21, the author writes, "Know this first of all, that there is no prophecy of scripture that is a matter of personal interpretation, for no prophecy ever came through human will; but rather human beings moved by the holy Spirit spoke under the influence of God." No Reformation emphasis on Sola Fide or individual interpretation, however good the intention, can ever be said to claim any real authority under God. My words here now contain no authority if anything within them contradicts a fundamental doctrine or sensus fidelium of the Church.
Moreover, the fervant desire against heresy in favor of orthodox doctrine is a weight of truth against the arguement that Christianity is only a matter of "being a good person" or letting it be up to personal opinion because "no one really knows" and "only God judges". For even in Paul's letters, "there are some things hard to understand that the ignorant and the unstable distort to their own distruction just as they do the other scriptures" (2 Peter 3:16). For "there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies"(2 Peter 2:1).There is Truth. And there is a right answer.
Moreover, for me, Second Peter's description of these false prophets at the end of Chapter 2 is a haunting portrayl of old feminist error. He writes,
- For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error. They promise them freedom, though they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave of whatever overcomes him... For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them. What is expressed in the true proverb has happened to them... "A bathed sow returns to wallowing in the mire." (2 Peter 2:18-19, 21-22)
The weight and potency of the empty bombast of "consciousness-raising" and "reclamations of power". The seductive desire of quarter-filled sex that denies procreation and thus true unity. The licentiousness of promiscuity, concubinage and on-demand divorce. All advocated by those who had barely escaped living in error - not in Peter's sense of Jews or Gentiles just recently converting to Christianity, rather, of falling away from his Gospel and his Church. The foremost feminist activists and scholars have disproportionately arisen among those who reject the Catholic faith. In order to advocate along the typical strains of old feminism, I would argue, you'd have to.
Old feminists promise the freedom of all the world, yet they are slaves of what has overcome them - the distorted masculine dispensation for power, lust and revenge and their own over-reliance on sentimentality and personal authority. Is it not better to be a slave of Christ?
The most dispairing cases being those who were once in the fold and who now reject its truth, light and love: Catholic women for "free choice" as if a decision to kill one's child was a power of liberation, proponents of a female priesthood which would deny their own authority and glory and worshippers of a female goddess who cannot ever be considered the Christian God. They had something of the truth, yet somehow they were led away. The Church must take the initiative to reconnect, touch, explain and bring them back as well as take responsibility for the women and girls struggling to see the light under her wings. So many have had their bodies washed clean through the waters of Baptism, but have yet returned to the sloth and darkness of the fetid mire. Mary, pray for your daughters!
Blessed are they who do not give in to the apple of domination but who when insulted, return no insult and when suffering, return no threats (1 Peter 2:23). For all that you do humbly, obediently and lovingly in the name of Christian Truth, blessed, blessed are you. (1 Peter 4:13-14)
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