{"id":802,"date":"2015-12-03T16:09:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2015-12-11T16:12:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T21:12:44","slug":"802","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday of the 1st<\/sup> Week of Advent<\/h2>\n

Is 26: 1-6; Mt 7: 21, 24-27<\/h2>\n

Dc. Larry Brockman<\/h2>\n

\u201cYes, but\u201d.\u00a0 Is our allegiance to the word of God characterized by \u201cYes, but\u201d or a resounding \u201cAmen\u201d?\u00a0 Because that\u2019s the difference between building our foundation on rock or sand.<\/p>\n

You know, there is a fallout associated with all the education we get these days.\u00a0 In very blunt terms:\u00a0 \u201cA little knowledge can be a dangerous thing\u201d.\u00a0 And in the American society we live in, our level of education is so much more sophisticated than it used to be.\u00a0 We are taught to question everything; we are taught to be critical thinkers.<\/p>\n

And that is a good thing, unless\u2026\u00a0 Unless we try to second guess God\u2019s law.\u00a0 We can become so arrogant about our little bit of knowledge that we don\u2019t listen to God.\u00a0 You see, God thinks at a level that we cannot begin to approach.\u00a0 His ways are totally beyond our comprehension.\u00a0 And so, God has revealed His law to us through the prophets, Jesus and the Apostles, and the great doctors of the Church.\u00a0 God\u2019s revelation is slow, and doesn\u2019t always seem to be provable or understandable according to man\u2019s level of intelligence.\u00a0 The Incarnation, the Trinity, the Resurrection of the body, the Eucharist; and some of our moral standards, like the right-to-life, and the dignity of a human person, are examples of that.\u00a0 These are just a few of our beliefs that are challenged by secular society using sophisticated learning and reasoning today.<\/p>\n

Consider some examples of areas where human \u201cthinking\u201d tries to second guess the aggregate teaching of the Church in today\u2019s society.\u00a0 Usually sophisticated arguments are used to consider the exception.\u00a0 We say- marriage is the union of a man and a woman;\u00a0 Society\u2019s elite say- yes, but what about two people of the same sex who truly love each other.\u00a0 We say- an embryo is a human being just like the parents.\u00a0 But society\u2019s elite say- yes, but what about the fact that the embryo cannot exist without the mother\u2019s body;\u00a0 And if that support can in any way danger the mother, than shouldn\u2019t there be an exception\u00a0 So the mother can make a choice.\u00a0 We say- thou shalt not steal; but society\u2019s elite say- yes but \u00a0those who have should be forced to pay for those who have not\u00a0 because all are entitled to basic needs- it\u2019s only fair.<\/p>\n

It is important for all of us to remember that the truth is not relative- It is absolute.\u00a0 There is black; and there is white.\u00a0 It is possible to cross the line between one and the other.\u00a0 In other words- there is sin.\u00a0 Abortion is either right or wrong; marriage is between a man and a woman; and we cannot just steal from people who have, to give to the poor- the rich have to give of their hearts.\u00a0 Right is right, and wrong is wrong.\u00a0 And we must build our foundation on rock- that which is right.<\/p>\n

That means we must take a position that some things are absolute, not relative.\u00a0 The things that God has revealed to us as our foundation are things like the ten commandments and the beatitudes.\u00a0 Otherwise, when we think that human beings can discern by the circumstances,\u00a0 we are building our house on sand.<\/p>\n

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Thursday of the 1st Week of Advent Is 26: 1-6; Mt 7: 21, 24-27 Dc. Larry Brockman \u201cYes, but\u201d.\u00a0 Is our allegiance to the word of God characterized by \u201cYes, but\u201d or a resounding \u201cAmen\u201d?\u00a0 Because that\u2019s the difference between building our foundation on rock or sand. You know, there is a fallout associated with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deaconlarry.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}