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From: Irma Raymond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:23 AM
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Subject: RE: [parablenet] Will you go to the Benny Hinn Crusade?
Dear Anil,
I respect your opinion.
But did you know that among all the Churches in the world if there is any
church whose teachings/interpretations of the Bible can be termed as
infallible, it is the Catholic Church.
Why? Take any other denomination. You will find preachers giving their own
personal interpretation. But ONLY in the Catholic Church will you find that
any
interpretation or official teaching that comes from the Pope, does not come
from one person alone but years are spent, by a battalion of Bishops and
Bible Scholars who come together as a body and present their findings in
front
of the Church. These findings are prayed over, discerned and only then are
they
given out as official teaching/interpretation/stand of the Church on any
topic/matter.
True the Catholic Church is not perfect. But nor is any parent. Yet, the
Lord
commands us to respect and honour our Mother and Father not because they
dont
make mistakes but because it is the Lords command.
Again, it is only the Catholic Church whose origin can be traced all the way
to
the first disciples the early Christians.
We are all humans. And the biggest problem human beings have is their ego.
It
was ego that resulted in the first breakaway group. One person disagreed
with
the interpretation of the Church and formed his own personal church and
today
2000 years later it is the same ego that has caused 1000s of similar
breakaway
groups.
You ask anyone who has left the Catholic Church the reason why they left.
And
they will say we never got anything from the Church. But arent we
supposed
to be one body that has different parts that work together. If I am the left
hand of the body, am I not supposed to contribute my share of the
work/support?
Agreed, the Catholic Church has gone wrong in many ways. But today being
part
of it, we are called to work towards keeping it together and encouraging
others
to do the same.
Again, there is another very crucial angle to this entire episode because of
which I sent out such a strong email. Its not just Benny Hinn and his
teachings, but there are going to be so many breakaway church groups at the
venue waiting like vultures to catch the most venerable prey: the Catholics.
Hence we need to dissuade as many people (specially those who are not very
strong in their faith) from going for the meeting.
>From personal experience in the past, I can promise you there is only
confusion
and nothing else in these breakaway groups.
We are all children of the Catholic Church. It is our responsibility to keep
our family united. Like a good mother, the Church has warned us from
attending the crusade. She has not forced us. Now the decision is ours.
Hope you join me in praying for our brothers and sisters.
Your sister in Christ,
Irma
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> Dear Irma,
>
> I totally disagree with you. Your example is good. But you can not
> use it to explain everything you want.
> If the church and the authorities of the church are completely correct
> and according to the Bible and God, then the church would never have to
> repent about anything that it has committed in the past. But the
> Catholic church has a big history correcting its past mistakes.
>
> I do not find anything wrong in listening to other interpretations of
> the bible. Every church tries to dissuade its members from listening to
> other ("non-official") interpretations of the Bible. This attitude
> comes
> more from a fear of loosing people than from a sincere wish to help
> people. If other religions have taken this attitude, you and I would
> not
> have been Christians now.
>
> Given that catholic churches interpretations of the bible is not
> infallible, the church can not dissuade its members from listening to
> the other interpretations of the Bible. A mother tries to correct a
> child because the mother knows completely about the consequence of what
> the child is about to commit. But if the mother over-do its role, she
> will surely come in the way of development of that child which is very
> harmful. If every mother in the history has done the same, there would
> not have been much development in the world.
>
> People should have the freedom to listen to other interpretations of
> the bible. At the most church can explain where the other
> interpretations differ from the "official teachings" of the church and
> why they think their interpretation of the Bible is correct.
>
> The role of the Church is only as a facilitator not as an autocrat.
>
>
> Your Brother-in-Christ
> Anil Thomas
> (Bangalore, India)
>
>
> Disclaimer: Opinion expressed in this mail is my personal opinion and
> is
> not in anyway related to the official stand or otherwise of any
> organization/company I belong to.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Irma Raymond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 11 February 2004 10:52
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [parablenet] Will you go to the Benny Hinn Crusade?
>
>
> Will you go to the Benny Hinn Crusade?
>
> Lakhs of Christians are expected to attend Benny Hinn's 'Festival of
> Blessings'
> Crusade in Mumbai this weekend.
>
> On the other hand the elders, of our Catholic Church have warned us
> against
> attending the event.
>
> The question in many hearts is: Why this ban? Why is the Church
> controlling our
> freedom to choose? Its not like we are going into another religion.
> Benny Hinn
> does preach in the name of Jesus, doesnt he?
>
> Yes. It is true that Benny Hinn preaches in the name of Jesus. And
> Jesus
>
> himself said, whoever is not against me is for me.
>
> This brings us back to the same question. Why is our Church saying NO?
>
> The main reason: There are so many controversies about Benny Hinns
> teachings/preachings. If we go into the depths of it we will get lost.
> So then
> what shall we do? Blindly believe what our Church tells us?
>
> Lets make this simple. Most of us have children. Those who arent
> married, or
> dont have kids as yet, still have some experience about what Im about
> to
> share.
>
> Often we hear our Mothers tell us, No dont do that. You will get
> hurt.
> Example: I kept telling my one-year-old Zaneta not to come near
> anything
> thats too hot or she may burn herself. Yet she did not understand. So
> one day
> I let her touch a hot cup of tea and experience what hot is. Since
> then all I
> have to tell her is its hot! And now she understands. But if she
> would want
> to come and experience how hot a burning flame is, obviously I would
> have to
> put my foot down and say NO thats not for you. Because I know how
> harmful
> it can be for her.
>
> Similarly the Church is like our Mother. Thats why she is called,
> Mother
> Church. At times the Church has to be strict with us and say, NO.
> thats bad
> for you. It could harm you. Many of us dont understand. But if we
> really
> trust our Mother then we should believe what she tells us, even if
> weve
> never
> experienced it ourselves.
>
> And like in every home there are rebellious children who go against the
> warnings of their parents, we too will have rebellious children in the
> Church,
> who will still go for the crusade. So what do we do? Like we do for
> everyone
> else. We pray for them.
>
> Will you join me in praying for our little rebels?
>
> Much love n prayers,
> Irma
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Irma Raymond
> Mid Day Multimedia Ltd
> Mumbai, India
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> What is impossible for man is Possible for God!
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