Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
The media reports that the new pope has issued his first encyclical entitled “Deus Caritas Est” (God is love in Latin), a study of Eros and Agape. Is he now proclaiming a Protestant view of the gospel? If so, that would be news, wouldn’t it?
We’ll have to wait until we can read his 71 page dissertation; but of this we can be certain: when he believes, understands, and proclaims agape as the Bible proclaims it, he will renounce his Roman Catholicism. The reason is that agape is a love that is “strong as death,” “many waters cannot quench it” (Song of Solomon 8:6, 7). It constrains to the total crucifixion of self, led Christ to “pour out His soul unto death,” and to die the “death of the cross,” which included His dying the second death of the human race (cf. Isa. 53:12; Phil. 2:5-8; Rev. 2:11). Such agape is impossible if we believe the doctrine of the natural immortality of the human soul—the foundation dogma of Roman Catholicism, imported and adopted from ancient paganism. If that dogma is true, Christ could not have died on His cross, and His gospel is a farce (cf. 1 Cor. 15:3, 4). Jesus truly died—the real thing! Paganism has no placed being woven into the gospel of Jesus.
May the Holy Spirit open the eyes of Benedict XVI to see and understand how “the gospel ... [not the church!] is the power of God unto salvation” (Rom.
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