ARTICLE XI
THE RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH
152. The resurrection of the flesh means that at the end of the world we shall all be resurrected, each soul taking again the body which it had in this life.
153. The bodies of the resurrected will not all be the same; the bodies of the wicked will appear hideous and covered with ignominy, while the bodies of the good will be clothed with glory and majesty.
[Understand well point 153, it is the Holy Doctrine that is according to Divine Justice. Already the Prophet Daniel said it in Dn 12, 2: “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, these to everlasting life, those to reproach, to everlasting ignominy”.
Unfortunately, now the sepulchers and vipers infiltrated in the Church with modernism are trying to sell to the people painted mailboxes of “salvation”. For example, in the daily Masses in my diocese (and I don't know if in all Argentina) we read: “Lord, You will make all creation participate in the glory of the resurrection”. It is false because many will be resurrected without glory, with condemnation. And it is also false because not all creation will resurrect, animals do not resurrect. Angels are spiritual beings, who never die. Humans have flesh and soul, the flesh dies, the soul goes to the personal judgment at death. Animals have flesh and no soul, there is nothing left of them at death, that is why we can kill them and eat them. Did Jesus resurrect animals, or did any saint do so? NO. Animals are blessed for their health, since the A.T. says: the wicked has an evil spirit, the righteous is concerned about the health of his animals.
Another thing they are selling to people (and it is because most are not true Catholics but want to be told lies of effortless salvation) is: “our humanity is already in the center of the Holy Trinity” as if to say that we have already arrived and it is a matter of time before they all arrive. It turns out that the humanity that is in the Holy Trinity is the humanity of Jesus Christ, which is united to the divinity and is the source of holiness and perfection. Another humanity that is at the center of the Blessed Trinity is that of the Virgin Mary, who never committed the slightest sin and earned the place of glory where She now is. But our mankind fallen by sin and corrupt: NO.
Another mailbox disguised as salvation that is being sold to riffraff eager for lies is that when a loved one dies, is: “he is already in Heaven”. A wise priest wrote: “they are making instant saints!”, it is understood that there are no instant saints, and he said that they went from Masses in suffrage for the souls of the deceased to “Masses in homage to the deceased”, when we know that the only one to whom homage is paid in Mass is Jesus Christ, even if they want to thank or honor the Blessed Virgin, they should say: In thanksgiving to Jesus Christ for the Virgin Mary. Our religion is Christ-centered. By giving placebos to the riff-raff saying that their loved ones are already in Heaven (when we know from Jesus Christ that most people go to Hell, since few find the narrow path that leads to Life), they deprive the deceased of all the Masses, sacrifices or prayers that their loved ones should make for them, in case they might have been among the number of the blessed souls that go to Purgatory].
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ARTICLE XII
THE EVERLASTING LIFE.
154. The everlasting life means the eternal life that will be after the final judgment, either eternally happy in heaven, or eternally unhappy in hell.
Our soul will never die; it has had a beginning, but it will never end.
As long as God exists, our soul will exist. [And we know that God exists and reigns eternally].
In a billion years and centuries [sure, but that time is finite, and eternity is infinite], our soul will exist and will be in heaven or in hell, according to how we have behaved in the very short time of this life.
Great madness is to commit the sin! For things that are to pass so soon, to lose an eternal heaven, to deserve an eternal hell!
Amen, at the end of the creed, means: So it is, so I believe.
155. Besides the Creed and its articles, the Christian must believe all that is in Sacred Scripture and all that God has revealed to his Church.
We said at the beginning (question 32) that the Creed is a compendium of our faith, that not all religious truths are contained in it explicitly, because there are many, but implicitly, that is, enclosed or contained in some article of the Creed.
When we say: “I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son”, etc., we implicitly say: “I believe all that He has revealed, I believe that all that He has said (the Holy Gospel) is true”.
By saying: “I believe in the Holy Spirit,” we mean: “I believe all that the Holy Spirit, Who is infallible God like the Father and the Son, has revealed to men in the Old and New Testaments; for as the Nicene Symbol says, ”the Holy Spirit spoke by the mouth of the Prophets”.
When we say: “I believe in the Holy Catholic Church”, we mean: “I believe all that the Church, the depository of faith, teaches me in the name of God”.
The revelation made by God to mankind is contained in Sacred Scripture (the Bible) and in divine tradition. Of these we give a brief explanation.
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The Bible and the divine Tradition.
All the truths of the Christian religion are contained in the Bible and in the divine Tradition.
The Bible, or Sacred Scripture, is the written word of God.
The books of the Bible are 72.
The Holy Spirit inspired the men who wrote it.
The Bible is divided into Old and New Testament.
The Old Testament comprises 45 books, written before the coming of Jesus Christ.
The New Testament comprises 27 books, written after the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Divine Tradition is the Word of God not written in the Bible.
The primitive religion passed from fathers to sons by divine Tradition.
Sacred Scripture does not say which books have been inspired by God; we know which books are inspired by divine Tradition. [I suppose it says that of all the books on earth, the ones that are certain to have been inspired by God are in the Bible.]
For this reason divine Tradition is as important as Sacred Scripture itself.
Jesus Christ did not write any book, nor did He command the Apostles to write, but to preach the Gospel to every creature, and they did so.
The Gospels and other books of the New Testament were written some years after Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven, when the Apostles had already preached the Gospel in many places.
The depository of the divine Tradition is the Church of Jesus Christ.
The divine Tradition and the authority of the Church are necessary to know which books make up Sacred Scripture and how they are to be interpreted.
Only bibles approved by the Holy Church, which are accompanied by the corresponding explanatory notes to the text, may be read.