Rohr Goes Onss of it All

I keep thinking I'm finished with Rohr but then I go on listening.  I did want to find out what he thinkis about sin and salvation though.  He uses the term redemption in a very odd way but the term salvation hadn't come up in anything I'd heard.  So Isearched on it and a talk came up titled The Christian Meaning of Enlightenment.  Which is of cours a term from eastern religion which he's also into, as was an earlier Monk, Thomas Merton.  So he stats out defining enlightenment using the term light from scripture.  Eve ntually he gets to salvation.

The first thing he says is that Catholics are taught that salvation is a healing that occurs after death that finaloly makes you right with God.  I'd never heard that one before.  I know Catholics don't teach the gospel of salvation so that Catholics are very likely not to be saved no matter how much they may make Jesus their exclusive focus, and that's pretty sad, but exactly what they are tuaght I haven't known.  

He goes on showing that the term salvation is presented in scripture as past, present and future, just as Protestants teach, having already occurred, occurring in the present and still future.  By grace ye have been saved.  gOD HAS BEEN PLEASED TO RECONCILE ALL THINGS TO hIMSELF.   

i JUST WENT BACK AND LISTENED TO THE WHOLE THING AGAIN, TAKING SOME NOTES.  i'TS HARD TO TAKE NOTES ON HIM, SINCE EVERY FEW WORDS USUES MEANINGS THAT HAVE NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH cHRISTIANITY.  oH THE TERMS ARE cHRISTIAN BUT THE MEANINGS HE GIVES THEM AREN'T.  iT'S AS IF YOU ARE STARTING OUT WITH A RECIPTE FOR PAELLA AND AS YOU FOLLOW IT YOU CHANGE EVERY INGREDIENT FROM ONE THING TO SOMETHING ELSE UNTIL WHAT YOU END UP WITH IS BEEF STROGANOFF.  oR YOU ARE MAKING TIRAMISU AND END UP WITH A BLACK FOREST CAKE.  tHE TERMS, THE INGREDEITNS ARE THATT DIFFERENT.    tHIS ISN'T cHRISTIANITY AT ALL BUT WHAT IS IT?  wELL YESH, A HERESIY OF SOME SORT THAT CALLS ITSELF cHRISTIANITY, BUT IT'S GOT BITS OF PSYCHOLOGY IN IT AND BITS OF bUDDIHIMS AND BITS OF WHO KNOWS WHAT, MAYBE TSTUFF HE MADE UP HIMSELF.

trtO hIM THE lIGHT OF THE wORLD ISN'T JUST cHRIST HIMSELF IT'S A PRINCIPLE WE ALL PARTICIPATE IN.  sAME WITH THE INCARNATION, IT ISN'T JUST jESUS WHO INCARNATED, BUT THE WHOLE CREATION WHICH WE ALL PARTICIPATE IN.  tHE PA...  PHONE RANG SO LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT.  oH WELL.

oH THE INCARNATION IS WHE WHOLE CREATION.  yES AND PARTICIPATION IS SOMETHING WE SOMEHOW LEARN TO DO THROUGH CONTEMPLATION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, RECOGNIZE THAT WE'RE ALREADY SAVED OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WE ALREADY HAVE THE hOLY sPIRIT AND SO ON.  wHAT A BUNCH OF NONSENSE BUT i THINK THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT HE'S SAYING.  aND HE CALLS jESUS TGHE FIRST NONDUAL THINKER OF THE wEST, A BIG COMPLIMENT OF COURSE, BUT cHRISTIANITY ITSELF IS DUAL AND THAT'S A NON NO, THE CAUSE OF ALL THE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD.  oH DEAR WE MUSTNLT MAKE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN iSRAEL AND hAMAS i GUESS, NOT THAT HE MENTIONS THIS ONE, OH DEAR OH DEAR OH NO OH NO,  .  tHERE ISN'T A GOOD SIDE AND A BAD SIDE, WE MUST STOP THINKING THAT WAY.    

rELIGION IS TRANSFORMATIVE HE SAYS, TAT'S THE WHOLE POINT AND DUALISM PREVENTS THIS TRANSFORMATION.  wELL cHRISTIANITYH is TRANSFORMATIVE, WE ARE TRANSLATED FROM THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD TO THE kINGDOM OF gOD THROUGH THE DEATH OF cHRIST.  tHAT SORT OF TRANSFORMATION IS NOWHERE IN rOHR'S PLAYBOOK.  tRANSOFMRATION HASSOMETHING TO DO WITH RECNOGNIZING AS i SAY, THE ABOVE .  hE HAS NO CLUE THAT IT'S ALL ABOUT jESUS, HE ACTUALLY DENIGRATES THE ROLE OF jESUS, REDUCES HIM TO A MESSENGER OF THE TRUTH.  aND NOT THE TRUE TRUTH OF COURSE, SOME OTHER TOTAL WEIRDNESS.  i SUPPOSE THIS IS GOING TO END UP AS THE RELIGION OF THE aNTICHRIST IN THE END BECAUSE OF COURSE IT COMES OUT OF cATHOLICISM ALTHOUGH IT DOESN'T WEVEN AFFIRM MUCH OF CATHOLICISM.  

oH cATHOLICS.  iF ONLY i COULD SAY THIS RIGHT AND GET A BUNCH OF THEM TO SEE THE TRUTH AND FLEE SUCH ABSOLUTE NONESENSE.  

i HAVE A BUNCH OF NOTES BUT i'M NOT TOING TO GET TO MOST OF THEM.  bUT AT THE END HE SAYS cHRISTIANITY HASN'T TRANSFORMED THE WORLD AS IT SHOULD.  wOW DOES HE NOT KNOW HISTORY.  cHRISTIANITY TRANSFMORMED THE WEST HAND OVER FIST THROUGHOUT THE LAST TWO MILLENNIA.  tHERE WOULD BE NO ORPHANAGES OR HOSPITALS WITHOUT chRISTIANITY, NO mAGNA cARTA, NO dECLARATION OF iNDEPENDNECE OF cONSTITUTION OF THE uNITED sTATES, NO CHARITY ORGANIZATIONS  cHARLES pURGEONS' chURCDH ALONE FOUNDED SIXTY SEVEN OF THOSE.  nO RED CROSS, AND YES, NO CAPITALISM EITHER i SUPPOSE ALTHOUGH THAT IS THE ONLY ECONOMIC SYSTEM THAT MAKES AN ENTIRE SOCIETY PROSPEROUS RATHER THAN CONCENTRATION THE WEALTH IN THE TINIEST OF UPPER ECHELONS.  aND THE lEFT DOES NOT GET THAT AND MAY NEVVER GET IT.    i WISH i COULD WRITE WITHOUT SO MANY MISTAKES BUT EVEN IF i SHOWOW DOWN AND TRY VERY HARD i GOOF IT UP AT EVERY TURN.  iT'S LIKE i WANT TO WRITE A PARTICULAR WORD BUT A DIFFERENT WORD GETS WRITTEN.  sOMETHING WRONG WITH MY POOR HEAD.

yES ALL cREATION WILL BE SAVED, BUT NOT ALL HUMAN BEINGS.  lEARN THE TRUTH YE FOLLOWERS OF A HERETIC LIKE rOHR.  oH i'LL TRY TO COME BACK TO THIS.