Let's defend the Truth

A)  The text of the speech by J.M.Bergoglio:

“«Yes». For a Christian there is no other response to God’s call. Above all we must never turn away, pretending not to understand…… «It is all a history that ends and begins in this solemnity that we are celebrating today: the history of mankind, when he leaves paradise»…… After man sins, the Lord commands him to walk and fill the earth: «Be fruitful and go forth». However, «the Lord was paying attention to what man was doing». Thus, «several times when man made mistakes, God punished man: let us think of Babel or of the flood»” (Homily- Casa Santa Marta – Monday, 4 April 2016)

B) References to Scriptures:

“Blessed be God who lives for ever, for his reign endures throughout all ages! For he both punishes and pardons; he sends people down to the depths of the underworld and draws them up from utter Destruction; no one can escape his hand.
Declare his praise before the nations, you who are the children of Israel! For if he has scattered you among them, there too he has shown you his greatness. Extol him before all the living; he is our Lord and he is our God; he is our Father, and he is God for ever and ever.
Though he punishes you for your iniquities, he will take pity on you all; he will gather you from every nation wherever you have been scattered.
If you return to him with all your heart and all your soul, behaving honestly towards him, then he will return to you and hide his face from you no longer. Consider how well he has treated you; loudly give him thanks. Bless the Lord of justice and extol the King of the ages.
I for my part sing his praise in the country of my exile; I make his power and greatness known to a nation that has sinned. Sinners, return to him; let your conduct be upright before him; perhaps he will be gracious to you and take pity on you” (Tob 13:1-6)

“And do not say, ‘His compassion is great, he will forgive me my many sins’; for with him are both mercy and retribution, and his anger does not pass from sinners” (Sir 5:6)

“But let anyone who wants to boast, boast of this: of understanding and knowing me. For I am Yahweh, who acts with faithful love, justice, and uprightness on earth; yes, these are what please me,’ Yahweh declares” (Jer 9:23)

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for uprightness: they shall have their fill. Blessed are the merciful: they shall have mercy shown them” (Mat 5:6-7)

“What should we say, then? That God is unjust? Out of the question! For speaking to Moses, he said: I am gracious to those to whom I am gracious and I take pity on those on whom I take pity” (Rom 9:14-15)

C) Comment:

Monday, April 4^th, 2016. Casa Santa Marta. Bergoglio says: “The Lord was attentive to what the man was doing“. He then added: “Sometimes, when the man was wrong, he punished him: think of Babel or the flood“.

Bergoglio now shows that the Father (in addition to being God of mercy) is also God of justice. “When the man was wrong, He (God) punished him”. Bergoglio then contradicts himself. But true Christians are well aware that there is no real mercy without justice. In fact, God is merciful and just.

So Mercy and Justice can not be separated, you cannot split them apart. They go together. Why did God “punished the man”? Because the divine mercy is right. God is merciful and just. “Go and sin no more”, as Jesus says; and not, as Bergoglio says: “Do not worry, you have made a big mistake, yes, but don’t worry“.

The difference is essential and substantial.

The Jewish people punished by God lost the Alliance (which the Father himself had decreed as “perpetual”) because of the unfaithfulness of it ministers. An infidelity that has continued despite numerous warnings and admonitions of the Father to convert. The warnings were not heeded, and the Father has punished them by breaking the covenant, stipulating it with others.

As happened then, all this is now happening again.

On the celebration of the feast of the Annunciation, Bergoglio openly contradicts himself (for he previously said that the alliance of the Jewish people with God was never revoked; that God forgives everything and God always forgives, that Jesus is free, salvation is free; that God has saved us freely and the essence of salvation does not come from doing good; that what God likes most is to forgive his children; he said I’ve so many bad things inside me, it is better, better; he spoke about the irrevocability of the Old Covenant and the constant and faithful love of God for Israel; that the mercy of God is independent of faith; that salvation is given free, it is free; or even see the covenant with the Jewish people is repealed “yes, yes” or “no, no“?; the true and the false mercy), highlighting that in the history of God, the true divine mercy is never separated from the merciful divine justice, that is nearby, it is here.