COMMENTO ALLA LETTURA BIBLICA DEVILS Disguised as Biblist
Matthew 4:1-11
1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter approached and said, "If you are the Son of God, 'that these stones become bread." 4 But he said: "It is written
not live by bread alone man,
but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God .
5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple 6 and said: "If you are the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written: In his
angels will command concerning you, and they shall bear thee up
their hands, lest
strike your foot against a stone .
7 Gesù gli rispose: «Sta scritto anche:
Non tentare il Signore Dio tuo ».
8 Di nuovo il diavolo lo condusse con sé sopra un monte altissimo e gli mostrò tutti i regni del mondo con la loro gloria e gli disse: 9 «Tutte queste cose io ti darò, se, prostrandoti, mi adorerai». 10 Ma Gesù gli rispose: «Vattene, satana! Sta scritto:
Adora il Signore Dio tuo
e a lui solo rendi culto ».
11 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.
When you read this famous passage from the Gospel that is at the beginning of Jesus' journey between the villages of Palestine, is now well declare that there is no devil. Satan is a figure of speech, a metaphor that speaks of a thousand ills that beset our lives and the ways of the world. With that image evangelists personify evil and speak of it as if it were a spiritual agent, external and tempter. This process is called cultural and linguistic personification and would be naive to believe that there is evil that being that the popular fantasy called the devil.
Even Jesus
Jesus every day of his life, just like us, had to seek and strive to fulfill the will of God even for him it was easy to escape & # 8220; temptation of selfishness and the seduction of a quiet life. Too entered the path of solidarity with the abandoned and the marginalized by coming to terms with his fears, his enthusiasm, his prejudices, his disappointments and his efforts. Sought through prayer and witness the strength of the prophets and the light not to betray the cause of the poor. In his life, Jesus, this trail was discovered that the "cause of God" coincides with the release of the weakest. He did not give anyone the impression of having God in my pocket, but being a seeker of His will.
Christian dogma deleted, has overshadowed Jesus of Nazareth, the town and we built him a divine person. I want to be a disciple of Jesus of Nazareth and I can not nor am I interested in becoming a disciple of the second person of the trinity!!
In these times
It 'our task interpreted for our time this image of Satan. The eyes of faith helps us to identify many "devils in the flesh" which, as the Satan's Gospel, quote the Bible, Christian values \u200b\u200band become champions of the sanctity of family life, defenders of non-negotiable values, crusaders of Christianity and civilization. Our thoughts turn to reality and precise names, so many people that follow the Catholic religion, defend the crucifix, fund Catholic schools, attending the sacred buildings, oboli billionaires are the bureaucrats of the Catholic church and participate in worship, processions, inaugurations and state funerals next to the cardinals and prelates. All this, say with obvious hypocrisy, to be faithful to the Christian tradition in the Catholic version.
is covered with snow and the religious language and, like Satan tempting forward its proposals, citing the Bible, they use God and religion for their own interests.
"Begone Satan"
The picture is very expressive of the Gospel: Jesus rejects "the biblical scholar Satan & # 8221;, blunt his arguments and the hunt.
E 'exactly the opposite of what makes the Catholic hierarchy. Just one of those Satan in the flesh offering money, alliances, privileges, agreed and dirty business, it is a prostitute, willing to accept any compromise, the more complicit silence, to cover the most shameful. While these powers to flirt with, prosecuted and excludes anyone calls into question its corruption and its structure. Deaf to every call and every item, quotes the Bible at every turn, with the presumption of being the voice of God
No discouragement
This page opens a horizon of confidence. In it, Jesus, teacher of life, urges us to name and expose all of Satan in the flesh. E 'can drive them and not be seduced and diverted.
Who today wants to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and his way of faithfulness to God and the poor, found in the Gospel the strength to get out of the house of slavery "in which the buildings sacred and profane trying to imprison. Today it is necessary, without ceasing to be and feel the church, without ceasing to be a Christian or Catholic / a, able to resist openly the extras and the Pharaohs dickat Vatican. Faith in God and freedom and responsibility as Christians we are called to resistance to adults who have exchanged the gospel for a mess of pottage. All this with firmness and gentleness, knowing that God calls us to freedom within our own church.
THANKS O GOD,
why you gave to the world and asked many women and many men who have learned to live the risk, responsibility and the beauty of freedom. Thank you for the gift of life and witness of Jesus From him we learned that we must obey God and thus we can only discover and expose those who cover their interests under the name of God