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Mother Teresa
GEORGE L. FAULL
Mother
Teresa, the little nun from Calcutta India, will probably be declared a
Saint soon, since the Pope waived the 5-year delay usually required
after death in their false system of Sainthood. There were 300,000
people at her Beatification Mass in October 2003.
However, in her private journals she wrote, “I
want God with all the power of my soul, and yet between us there is a
terrible separation.” “I am told God lives in me and yet reality of
darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great, nothing touches my
soul.” “Heaven from every side is closed.” “I feel just that terrible
loss of God not wanting me, of God not being God, of God not really
existing.”
This
is how the little lady felt! She had no feeling of assurance of God’s
love and care or assurance of Heaven and not even of His existence!!!
Oh, this is so sad! What a pity this little heroine and model to millions, felt only apprehension, fear, and doubt.
Her
environment was a system of salvation by works rather than grace. Pomp
and circumstance, rather than humility surrounded her
superiors. Tradition reigned, rather than Biblical truth. There was
religious politics, rather than simple servant-hood, bondage, instead of
freedom in Christ. Their emphasis is upon a mere man, rather than the
Christ. It is a profit-led Church instead of a Spirit filled
Church. Such religion cannot possibly satisfy a soul that is hungry for
a personal relationship with God.
Remember
the lesson of this little woman who is considered the epitome of a
Christian Saint by the world. Remember her I say, and weep for her and
the millions who speak of her as Billy Graham and Chuck Colson who both
said of her, “she is my model of holiness.” Weep for them, as well.
What a contrast to Paul, who said in his waning days, II Timothy 4:6-8,
“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at
hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept
the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” and II Timothy 1:12, “For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: forI know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.”
Archbishop O’Connor said of Mother
Teresa (her birth name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), “If she is not in
heaven, then I am really terrified of dying, because of all she did.”
These off-guard words show the mindset
of one who believes our good works saves us. The Catholics are putting
money into the coffers of Rome trying to expedite the little Nobel Peace
Prizewinner through purgatory. Over and over she was listed as one of
the most respected women in polls all over the world. The nations of
the world have given her their highest commendations. Her own church
gave her the Pope John XXII Peace Prize in 1971. Likewise, Protestants
extol her from World Vision to Pat Robertson to the Signs and Wonders
Conventions. All extol her as a model Christian.
The Catholic view is she must spend time
in purgatory to let the fires of purgatory remove the dross of sin that
yet remained in her. (As if fire could cleanse what the blood of
Christ could not.)
This sounds so different than Romans 5:1-2,
“1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ: 2 By whom also we have access by faith into this
grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”
The truth is, however, the little lady held to doctrine that is as foreign to the Bible as purgatory itself.
· She held to the doctrine of transubstantiation where the cup and bread become the literal body and blood of
Christ.
· She believed the mass was the re-crucifixion of Christ.
· She prayed for the dead.
· She believed Mary was co-redeemer with Christ, and continues to make intercession for people.
· She believed Mary was worthy of worship.
· She used the rosary and advocated the reality of purgatory. In fact, the little woman, with all her good deeds,
spoke some of the most blasphemous doctrines ever fostered by her church.
· As noted in another issue, she taught that the sincere of all religions were saved.
I am always amazed at those who advocate
that one is saved by faith only also defend Mother Teresa. They say,
“Look at all she has done, if she is not saved, then no one is going to
be saved.” One wonders why they cannot keep their foot on their own
proposition.
First Proposition: One is saved by faith only.
Second Proposition: She is saved because of all her good works.
If someone can harmonize these contradictory propositions, they never took the same course in logic that I took.