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Teaching of Christ: A Catholic Catechism For Adults, Second Edition, 1983, under: “The Son of God Becomes Our Brother,” [What? Jesus is just our Brother?]
Subtitle “Jesus is Truly Man.” On page 82 states that: “The solemn teaching of the [Catholic] Church has always confirmed the clear teaching of Scripture that Jesus is truly a man. He [Jesus] had not only a human body, but also a human soul, a human mind, a human will, human emotions. He was fully and perfectly a man.”
The same book on page 86 tells us under “One with the Father”: “Jesus is not the Father; He was sent by the Father and He honors the Father. They are not one Person,...but they are one in sharing the same nature.” On page 91 under “The Glory of His Manhood” we find this teaching: “Jesus, the Son of God, is in his human nature perfect man. He is fully God and fully man. Thus He has divine intelligence and human intelligence, a divine will and a human will. “In accord with the teaching of the holy Fathers, we likewise preach two natural wills and two natural operations in Him...” Jesus suffers from a split personality or a multipliable personality disorder? He is schizophrenic? So we have Two Brains, Two minds, Two Wills Two Persons Two or Three Gods in Jesus?
From where did the two natures, two wills, two persons, two Gods doctrine come? On Page 79 of the Catechism for Adults book the Catholic Church confesses that this came to us through Pagan Greek Philosophers.
“Among the pagan nations as well God kept alive the hope for salvation, and Christ brought salvation to many who did not even know his name. [Nor sound Biblical Doctrine] Through the natural gifts of various cultures, as through the (Pagan) philosophy by which some of the Greeks came to speak many sublime truths about God, God was preparing the world for the advent of His Son and the spreading of His Gospel. [God used Pagan Philosophy?] A saving God was able to make such gifts minister to grace and salvation.” [Then they quote the Pagan-Catholic Clement of Alexandria Egypt the Pagan Philosopher who was over the Pagan Academy of Alexandria and he was Origen’s Teacher.] “All things necessary and profitable to life come to us from God, and philosophy more especially given to the Greeks, as a covenant peculiar to them, being as it were, a stepping-stone to the philosophy which is according to Christ.”
If Jesus was only human, then how could he claim that He is omnipotent, (Matthew 28:19, Revelations 1:8) has all power and to be Almighty (Matthew 28:18, Revelations 1:8)? Again, being All-powerful is only something that God is (1 Chronicles 29:10-12, Genesis 17:1). If Jesus was only human, how could he know all things or be omniscient (only God is omniscient read 1 Kings 8:39) even knowing the very thoughts of others (Matthew 12:25, Luke 6:8, John 16:30, John 21:17, 1 Corinthians 3:19-20, 1 John 3:20)? Compare these statements. There is no contradiction when we understand that the one and same God is speaking:
God speaking “I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”-Jeremiah 17:10.
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