EISAGOGI ~ INTRODUCTION
EISAGOGI ~ INTRODUCTION
1. VERITAS ~ TRUTH
2. BIBLIA ~ BIBLE
3. PARADOSIS ~ TRADITION
4. ECCLESIA ~ CHURCH
5. KYRIOS ~ I AM
6. EUKHARISTA ~ COMMUNION
7. ECHTHROS~ENEMIES
8. EPISTEME~SCIENCE
9. REFERENCES
PLAY OR PAUSE
The picture above is the apostle Paul delivering a speech at the Areopagus in Greece to Athenians in 48 A.D. (Acts 17:22-34), stealing from Shakespeare's words, "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears", or, in modern venacular terms, "Hey, guys, listen up."
If you're reading this, it's probably because you were invited to or you may have simply stumbled across this on your own. Either way, WELCOME!
Hi, my name is George, a non-cleric, just an average everyday guy in my 70's just as confused and questioning all the things we all see what's happening in and around the greatest institution on earth, the Roman Catholic Church.
I who grew up believing in the God of the Bible with no guidance, no one to teach me, no authority. In fact, until I entered a non-Catholic religious college, I never even spoke to anyone about God, Church or religion. I was a "loner" of sorts. While I majored in chemistry in school, my interest grew in areas of Biblical studies and history. Too much history to go into in between but after college I was introduced to a Protestant minister who shared other common interests like music and science, not to mention scripture as well. I decided to follow along since I had nothing else to compare it to since my pool of information was still limited in my early 20's. But as I delved deeper into Biblical studies, the history of the early Church, and specifically the teachings of Christ, many things taught by Protestants no longer made sense. So, after years of blindly following inconsistencies, I finally disassociated myself from that sect and for many years after I drifted, buy all along with the same lingering questions still unanswered. In the meantime, life goes on with career, starting a family and focusing on the cares of the day verses the history of the past or the hopes of the future.
It took hardships, divorce, dispair and remarriage to a devout Catholic woman to bring me back to my center, back to my first true love; God, faith, and the true meaning of life. Although she never said much about these things, there was something about her faith and devotion that moved me to even consider investigating Catholicism for the first time. Lights seemed to turn on in my darkness and my my eyes began to see things I never saw before, a world I was blinded to by Protestantism which only exists to turn many away from the Church Christ established with His apostles at Pentacost.
At first I was enthralled and elated, but after a short while, and began comparing what I learned about the perennial teachings of the Catholic Church dating back to apostles, to what I learned about the modern "new" Church in present-day Rome, I realized there are things that didn't match what I read about the original teachings and traditions of the Catholic Church established at Pentacost. At first I was confused and disheartened. To illustrate the dilemma I faced, to be candid, I remarried this Catholic lady by a deacon in the Novus Ordo concilliar Church, but I was catechized and baptized by a priest, who assumed the position of "sede-vacante" (the seat of St Peter has been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, and I was confirmed by a bishop who assumes the position of being in union with the Vatican II Church in Rome but who has separated himself and his followers minister to resist modern Rome on many things under the banner of a fraternity of priests, Society of Saint Pius X.
After years of investigating and agonizing over the things I learned about these fractionized groups and subsets under the assumed umbrella of Catholicism, I came to the "Y" in the road; either accept the present state of affairs and remain silent, or make a stand. ~priest, theologian, or have come to realize the apologist, but like yourself, I can read and understand that there are a lot of things going on today in the name of "Christianity", even Catholicism that don't add up. We can either ignore it as if to say, "...nothing I can do about it..." face the issues based on the evidence and deal with them head on. That's what men do. Don't hide.
Jesus commanded us, "Seek, ask, and knock" on doors to find truth. (Matthew 7:7) Sometimes these truths are disturbing, unpleasant, even shocking. This is another reason Jesus sdaid,
"Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth but the sword... a man's enemies shall be members of his own household." (Matthew 10:34-36)
No doubt you too have come across things about the Church, and in mainstream society that hard to understand and disturbing. Ignoring it will not make go away. And thinking you will have no affect is contradictory to what Jesus told us. "You MUST be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect." (Matthew 5:48) Be careful, I know what you're thinking. I thought the same thing, "I'm not Jesus or the apostles, so how can I be perfect?" Right? (More on this scripture later), but the point is, we don't get off that easily by dismissing something because it's hard to deal with. Again, that's what men do, deal with it. Many men today have become demasculated, and this isn't a misogynistic attitude. Many women today are more courageous and fearless dealing with these things then some men. Jesus and His disciples were strong men and women willing to give their lives for Christ.
Consider this ste, a "Reader's Digest of the Reader's Digest" version of some topics explored. Otherwise, the readers will get lost in the weeds. For more in-depth study you'll need to do as Jesus commanded, "Seek...." and with the internet, AI, and YouTube videos today, there's no excuse for ignorance. As Saint Augustine said, "Truth is like a lion ... it doesn't need defending."
Get ready to take a journey off the beaten path, like an archeologist exploring and digging for "evidence~facts", and let's figure out how these pieces of information fit together and see a picture emerge. These "facts" will be viewed through the eyes of understanding of men far more knowlegable and learned than you and I. We'll consider the works of theological, philosophical giants in history like Thomas Aquinas, Alphonsus Liguori, Aurelius Augustine, and Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus "St Jerome", along with many others dating back to the first century. These are not my words.
To achieve our objective to find truth, we must first put aside preconceived notions and approach this with an open "scientific mind". It may seem at times like entering into a "twilight zone" between reality and abstract thought, the supernatural mind of God, because His thoughts are higher than human thoughts. But with the aid of "Holy Scripture", God's words, and the 2,000 years of the teachings and traditions of the Catholic Church, the truth we all desire to find will become more clear.
Remember that Indiana Jones movie, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', when professor Jones (Harrison Ford) says, "In this class we consider facts. If it's "truth" you're after, that class is down the hall."
This (site) is the room down the hall where we examine the artifacts (facts~evidence) of the dig.
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For those who may have strayed, think of this as a way back to Mother Church.
The pages are assembled building on one another like pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle until a clear picture emerges to help find you way back to the Church Jesus founded with His apostles.
It's best to start with a clean slate by setting aside preconceived notions and allow new, different, and fresh perspectives to guide you through this like an innocent child. There's nothing herein that will mislead or cause alarm you in anyway. Consider this a journey with God on the road travelling with the saints, apostles, and the greatest doctors of Christ's Holy Apostolic Church.
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We'll consider such questions as:
1.) "Am I on the same road?"
2.) "How do I know? Who can I trust?"
3.) "What does God expect from me?"
4.) "Why does God permit the wickedness to prevail?"
5.) "Is this all there is?"
6.) "What does the future hold for mankind, and for myself?", and last but not least,
7.) "What happened to the Catholic "Mother" Church?
We were made in the image of God, so, we all have the inherit ability to understand God's words. He is the source of all knowledge and truth and Jesus left us with two simple commands to live by:
1.) Love God with our whole heart, whole soul, and whole mind, and,
2.) Love your neighbor as ourself. (Matthew 22:37-40)
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To love God is to obey Him, and to love our neighbor is to shine God's light and share God's knowledge with all we meet the best we can. My hope is that some things herein will help point the way.
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*THREE THINGS TO HELP ALONG THE WAY
1.) Bible verses highlighted in "BLUE" throughout. Right click on each instance and choose "Open link in new tab" and go directly back to this page.
2.) This ✨ AI, appears several places to indicate that certain comments come from impartial "objective" sources verses what some might consider "biased subjective" sources.
3.) When certain key scriptures are sited, a process called "exegesis" is used to examine them. ✨ AI highlights; (EXEGESIS is the critical interpretation of a biblical text, by carefully examining the text, the historical and cultural context, and its understanding of original meaning in order to avoid misinterpretations.
Key to understand that the opposite of exegesis is "eisegesis", which is to read one's own preconceived ideas into the text, thus loosing the original meanings. This becomes evident.
What you're about to examine on the next several "pages" will expose you to information you may not have seen or noticed before. If you have, perhaps your present understandings of these things may have been scewed, exposed to biased opinions, misinformation, misrepresentations, even distortions that have arisen since "Fressmasons" infiltrated into the Catholic "Mother" Church after Pope Pius XII passed, and an enemy snuck into the Church bringing with them hereties, such as false euchumenism and universal salvation, allowing even promoting immoral lifestyles, such as same-sex unions, unmarried couples cohabitating together in fornication, and many other activities Jesus condemned, all since the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Those who approve of these Masonic behaviors will be opposed to exposing these things and will be disturbed and resist. But remember, Jesus said He came with a sword. A sword in battle isn't just for "defend". A soldier's sword is all used to thrust into the enemy (figuratively speaking) to expose and destroy heresies, so that the Church will "prevail against the gates of hell (heresies). This battlefield includes all of Christ's militant disciples, not just the apostles and the clergy.
We all will be judged on the basis of our willingness to resist and fight the enemies of God and His Holy Catholic "Mother" Church, not this Novus Ordo "fake false religion" that's taken over the buildings within modern Rome, specifically the Vatican City. The agents of Satan the devil, the Freemasons and their minion supporters, include the antiCatholic Zionist Jews, Muslims, materialistic atheists, and especially, Protestants, who claim to be "Christian~followers of Jesus", but who are as Jesus Himself said of those who claim to be His disciples, "They having an appearance of godliness, but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid." (2 Timothy 3:5) Protestants deny the authority of the papacy, the power of the Holy Spirit that has been animating the Catholic Church since Pentacost and speak out against the Catholic Church. Jesus also warned us that these Protestants would say, "Lord did we not speak in your name, and perform many deeds in your name? And yet He will answer them, I never knew you: depart from me, you workers of lawlessness." (Matthew 7:23) Protestants are lawless because they deny the authority of Christ's true Church and they have mutilated the very "law of God" by removing books of the Bible that they decided doesn't agree with their heresies, andcreated their own versions of scripture to fit their narratives. More on this later.
These are all minions of Freemasonry in an effort to bring down the Catholic Church, and from all outward appearances, it appears as though they've been very successful if we look at the apostate modern Rome of Novus Ordo, the new order religions the masons ruined. But all this has been prophesied; "when all these things occur, look up, lift up your heads, your deliverance is near", just before the "consummation of Satan's the world." (Luke 21:28)
Finally Jesus warned, "And as in the days of Noah, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark, and they knew not till the flood came, and took them all away; so also shall the coming of the Son of man be." (Matthew 24:37-39) .
Now is the time to listen, wake up and find the truth among the lies all around us.
Knowing the enemy is vital, but as Catholics it's important to make a distinction between the enemy of Church is not the individuals, but rather the heretical teachings and lies of followers of Freemasonry and those who follow them and not be allured by their smooth words when their only aim is to lead us out of the Catholic Church into their web of deception, when they say things like, "We're all brothers if we just believe in Jesus and live a good life." We're reminded of the great old serpent in the garden, ~ "For God knows that in the day you eat of the tree of knowledge, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil." So it is, Masons and Protestants against the Church say things like, "if you look into our reformed teachings, your eyes with be opened to see the Catholic Church is corrupt and Protestants now hold the truth." LIES, LIES LIES!
(More on these "enemies" of the Church on the page, "ECHTHROS ~ enemies".)
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We'll never learn all Jesus taught, but we can know enough for salvation.
(Matthew 7:7) (John 21:25) (2 Thessalonians 2:14)
(Again, click on the verses highlighted in Blue)
To remain silent on these magnificent things, would be uncharitable, tantamount to "negligent evasion", like standing on a street corner watching a young child about to walk cross a busy street of traffic alone, and saying or doing nothing to try to help, warn, or even stop them from stepping into potential danger. Stopping the child may alarm the child and they may even resist at first, but what's the alternative? Could anyone in good conscience ignore the situation knowing what you know how to avoid this fatality before it's too late? Life is too precious to hesitate to help others.
(According to ✨ AI,, "negligent evasion" generally refers to situations where an individual fails to exercise reasonable care that could lead to an outcome that could be interpreted as an attempt to avoid or escape a responsibility which may lead to negative results.)
I simply ask my readers to have an open mind, and open heart. This is meant to help, not harm.
"The Journey is the Reward". Enjoy the ride, the journey. Take it one step at a time "together". ​​
