Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: "Despite our efforts in this life, we do not choose where we would be born. The faith in which our parents would raise us, nor the country in which we would live. These are ultimately part of God's predestination. Paul uses that word. You have all been predestined.
Now, predestination, parenthetically, does not mean that we are judged above and or beyond our choices in this life. There's a difference between fatality and destiny. Destiny, which is what the Catholic Church embraces, is the fruit of the choices each and every one of us makes in life.
So if Paul says that we are destined to greatness in God, it is because God has called us to make great decisions in life. Not everyone will succeed.
How do we know that? Well, we know from scripture that Satan fell like lightning from the sky. And in Peter's letter that he was cast down to Tartarus. That's a Greek word. The netherworld.
And the Book of Job, Satan is roaming the earth in the book of Genesis, he's in the Garden of Eden.
Now, we know also from approved Catholic literature that there are souls who are not saved. From approved prophetic Catholic literature. For example, the writings or the diary of Saint Faustina Kowalska.
In it, she describes the several tortures of hell. And affirms that she saw souls in hell that she had known on Earth.
Or the approved prophetic revelations of Fatima, in which the Blessed Mother opened up the earth. Interesting that she would open up the earth to show the three shepherd children hell, as if hell was in the earth.
In any event, hell is a...not a material dimension, but a dimension that exceeds the three dimensions of our access in this life. It's another dimension that escapes us, just like Eden, and yet it is as real as Eden.
So destiny is based upon the decisions we make in this life to which God calls us, which is to greatness.
Now, fatality, which the Church does not teach, is the notion that we are predestined to hell or heaven above and beyond our personal choices, our decisions in this life. You see the difference?"
Armor of God: Spiritual Warfare
Fr. Joseph Iannuzzi: "Despite our efforts in this life, we do not choose where we would be born. The faith in which our parents would raise us, nor the country in which we would live. These are ultimately part of God's predestination. Paul uses that word. You have all been predestined.
Now, predestination, parenthetically, does not mean that we are judged above and or beyond our choices in this life. There's a difference between fatality and destiny. Destiny, which is what the Catholic Church embraces, is the fruit of the choices each and every one of us makes in life.
So if Paul says that we are destined to greatness in God, it is because God has called us to make great decisions in life. Not everyone will succeed.
How do we know that? Well, we know from scripture that Satan fell like lightning from the sky. And in Peter's letter that he was cast down to Tartarus. That's a Greek word. The netherworld.
And the Book of Job, Satan is roaming the earth in the book of Genesis, he's in the Garden of Eden.
Now, we know also from approved Catholic literature that there are souls who are not saved. From approved prophetic Catholic literature. For example, the writings or the diary of Saint Faustina Kowalska.
In it, she describes the several tortures of hell. And affirms that she saw souls in hell that she had known on Earth.
Or the approved prophetic revelations of Fatima, in which the Blessed Mother opened up the earth. Interesting that she would open up the earth to show the three shepherd children hell, as if hell was in the earth.
In any event, hell is a...not a material dimension, but a dimension that exceeds the three dimensions of our access in this life.
It's another dimension that escapes us, just like Eden, and yet it is as real as Eden.
So destiny is based upon the decisions we make in this life to which God calls us, which is to greatness.
Now, fatality, which the Church does not teach, is the notion that we are predestined to hell or heaven above and beyond our personal choices, our decisions in this life. You see the difference?"
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