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‘Many False Prophets INCLUDING ‘THE FALSE PROPHET’ Have Gone Out Into The World’; Vatican praises atheistic Buddhist ‘compassion’ as ‘antidote to the global crises’
A message from the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue promoted Buddhist philosophy on suffering and equated Buddhist thought with Christianity.
Michael Haynes Fri Apr 21, 2023 – 10:45 am EDT
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican has written to Buddhists to commemorate a pivotal holiday in the Buddhist tradition, praising its form of “compassion” despite scholars warning that Buddhism is firmly opposed to the tenets of Christianity.
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(7) Paul Rolland, Night Watchman, Night Watchman Ministries:
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
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On April 21, the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue issued a message to mark the Buddhist “feast of Varek,” which, as the Vatican body noted, “commemorates the major events in Buddha’s life.”
Entitled “Buddhists and Christians: Healing Wounded Humanity and the Earth through Karuna and Agape,” the message was signed by Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, the prefect of the Dicastery, and the Dicastery’s secretary.
Guixot’s message was for the upcoming occasion of Varek, a Buddhist holiday marking major events in the life of Buddha, including his birth, supposed “enlightenment,” and his death. “May this festival once more inspire you to continue your quest for insight into the nature of duhkha, the conditions that cause it, and how it can be overcome,” Guixot wrote.
The term “duhkha” refers to the Buddhist concept of suffering or pain, and is held up as a central theme in Buddhist beliefs. Buddhists see suffering as a fundamental aspect of life which must be borne, and also reject the concept of a soul. Catholics, however, understand suffering as a part of fallen human nature but also as a gift from God, which can then be united to His sufferings.
Listing certain sufferings in the world today, Guixot made no mention of sin but spoke of “poverty, discrimination, and violence; indifference towards the poor, enslavement resulting from models of development that fail to respect the human person and nature; hate motivated and fueled by religious and nationalistic extremism; and above all, a despairing attitude towards life expressed through various types of anxiety and addiction.”
Such a “keen awareness of this shared vulnerability calls for new forms of solidarity shaped by our respective religious traditions,” he argued. Guixot cited Vatican II’s document Nostra Aetate, stating that the various religious traditions contain the answer to the “unsolved riddles of the human condition which deeply stir the hearts of men.”
Drawing also from Pope Francis’ 2020 text Fratelli Tutti, the cardinal spoke of the potential of “our respective religious traditions to offer remedies capable of healing our grievous wounds, and those of our families, our nations, and our planet.”
The text drew heavily from Buddhist writings, employing language and themes found in Buddhist holy texts, as well as quotations from “the Buddha.” Guixot presented the Buddhist teaching on “koruna,” or a form of compassion:
Dear Buddhist friends, you offer healing when you embody karuna – compassion towards all beings, taught by the Buddha (Sutta Nipata 1.8, Sutta Nipata 2.4) or when you act selflessly as did the Bodhisattva, who renounced entering Nirvana and remained in the world to work for the alleviation of the suffering of all beings until their liberation.
Those who practice a Buddhist form of compassion, wrote Guixot, “offer an antidote to the global crises we have mentioned, offering comprehensive compassion in response to widespread and interconnected evils.”
The cardinal drew comparisons between the Buddhist understanding of compassion — which is based on a rejection of the soul and a rejection of a belief in God – and the Catholic “agape” form of love. “Similarly, for Christians,” he said, “there is no more effective remedy than the practice of agape (selfless love), the great legacy that Jesus left to his followers.”
Guixot quoted from Pope Francis’ 2014 Lenten message, describing charity as “sharing with the one we love in all things.” This form of “compassion,” said the cardinal, is reflected in Buddhism:
[T]he Buddha’s emphasis on training the heart is especially valuable as we move forward together in our efforts to bring healing: ‘Develop meditation on compassion; for when you develop meditation on compassion, any cruelty will be abandoned.’
His statement closed with a message for Buddhists to enjoy the “abundant blessings and the joy of contributing to the healing of the wounds of society and the earth, our common home.”
Compatibility between the two?
Guixot’s message did not mention the primacy of the Catholic Church, or the error of Buddhist ideologies. While he did refer to Jesus Christ, he did so only by equating Christ’s teachings with those of Buddhism.
In contrast, scholars have warned against Christian appropriation of Buddhist ideology. Thomistic theologian Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has noted how:
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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
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Classic Christian spirituality emphasizes mortification of the flesh in order to achieve self-mastery and illumination; in like manner, Buddhism seeks to bring the restless wheels of desire to a standstill in order to achieve enlightenment.
“The contrast between Buddhist ‘salvation’ and Christian salvation – entering fully into the plenitude of love, gaining one’s identity in communion with the other – could not be more striking,” wrote Kwasniewski.
He pointed to Pope John Paul II’s 1994 Crossing the Threshold of Hope, which highlighted key differences between Christianity and Buddhism, namely that “Buddhism is in (5) large measure an ‘atheistic’ system.”
The Polish pope noted that Buddhism’s enlightenment involved a detachment which “is not union with God, but what is called nirvana, a state of perfect indifference with regard to the world.”
Indeed, while Cardinal Guixot favorably compared Buddhist “karuna” and Christian “agape,” others have strenuously rejected such an equivalency. Susan Brinkmann, who wrote about the influx of Buddhist thought into Catholic circles, noted how the two teachings were not similar.
“The Christian agape love is personal, individual and free-willed,” she said, while “the Buddhist teaches karuna, an impersonal feeling of compassion.”
The best way to understand what a stark difference this makes between the two faiths is found in the Buddhist story of the saint who gave his cloak to a beggar. The Christian gives his cloak to the beggar because of Christ’s love for the beggar. The Buddhist gives his cloak to the beggar because it’s the enlightened thing to do. In other words, the Buddhist’s concern is not for the welfare of the beggar, as is the Christian, but for the liberation of the giver from the burden of self.
But how can they call on him (Jesus Christ) to save them unless they believe in him (Jesus Christ)? And how can they believe in him (Jesus Christ) if they have never heard about him (Jesus Christ)? And how can they hear about him (Jesus Christ) unless someone tells them?” —Romans 10:14
In His Service,
Night Watchman
Paul Rolland
Night Watchman Ministries
Make Your Decision for Christ NOW!!!!!!! Time is Up!!!!!!!
Jesus Christ’s Offer of Salvation:
The ABCs of Salvation through Jesus Christ (the Lamb)
A. Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.
. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).
. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).
B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be; that He was both fully God and fully man and that we are saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. Put your trust in Him as your only hope of salvation. Become a son or daughter of God by receiving Christ.
. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).
C. Call upon His name, Confess with your heart and with your lips that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.
. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).
. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).
. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).
. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).
. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).
. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).
. . . “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 1:16).
. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).
. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).
. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).
True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:
Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”
Romans 12:19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
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