Misanthropy

And other big words from Catholics

By John Wilkinson
But a natural man does not accept the things
of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness
to him; and he cannot understand them,
because they are spiritually appraised. (1
Corinthians 2:14)
Humans mucked everything up. But Christ is fixing
it. said one particular Catholic believer on a
particular blog
I could hear my discernment alarms buzzing in my
head. I knew something was amiss.
Are we really good? Do we really tout that we are
fine in the eyes of God? Lets not kid ourselves. In
the presence of God, the Almighty Holy One, we are
nothing to sneeze at. The Bible is very clear of the
state that Mankind is in.
Biblically speaking, the unbeliever is completely and
totally affected by sin in every area of his being:
heart, soul, mind, body, emotions, etc. In this sense

he is desperately wicked (though not all unbelievers

are as bad as they can be in the manifestation of that
wickedness). This is why the Bible says that man is
deceitful (Jer. 17:9), full of evil (Mark 7:21-23), loves
darkness rather than light (John 3:19), does not seek
for God (Rom. 3:10-12), is ungodly (Rom. 5:6), dead
in his sins (Eph. 2:1), by nature a child of wrath
(Eph. 2:3), cannot understand spiritual things (1
Cor. 2:14), and is a slave of sin (Rom. 6:16-20).
We are evil when we compare ourselves with the
Holiness of God. For it will be as such when we stand
before Him in the final judgment. That will be all
that matters.
Now for the Good News.
Jesus Christ took on Sin...and God, recognizing that
sin, poured His Wrath onto His Son in our place so
that we wouldnt have to.
Even more Good News is this...We died with Christ
on the Cross.
For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ
in God. (Colossians 3:3)
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we
shall also live with Him, (Romans 6:8)
Even better News is our sin was nailed on the Cross
with Him...

having canceled out the certificate of debt

consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to
us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed
it to the cross. (Colossians 2:14)
So, what does that mean to the Believer?
EVERYTHING!
That means all my sin (past, present, and future) is
paid for and taken care of on the Cross. I can now
live in freedom knowing that nothing can separate
me from the Love of Christ. Why? Because the Work
of Jesus Christ on the Cross was complete and
satisfied by God.
Therefore, when someone says Christ is still fixing
it...I say, by no means. The work is complete and it is
Christ in us who is the only good thing we have in us.
I think the words of Paul the apostle are appropriate
here:
"For the good that I wish, I do not do; but I practice
the very evil that I do not wish. 20 But if I am doing
the very thing I do not wish, I am no longer the one
doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 21 I find then
the principle that evil is present in me, the one who
wishes to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the
law of God in the inner man, 23 but I see a different
law in the members of my body, waging war against
the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the

law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched

man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of
this death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus
Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself
with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the
other, with my flesh the law of sin," (Romans 7:1925).