Passion E-BOOK

              
The coming of the Son of God to die for us, so sins could be forgiven,
is history’s greatest love story.
    

 In that singular event, the Law, free will, good, evil, faith, grace,
and most importantly, God Himself,
acted to bring about the salvation of the world.
    

It happened in a way that most never expected …
that billions still refuse to accept
 and many more do not fully understand.
    

It happened for the benefit of mankind
 and for the glory of God …
and it was good!   

The Passion Behind the Passion

by Doug Lawrence

“Correlates the Bible and the Catholic catechism with the best in redemption theology, from St. Augustine through the Scholastics, and ties it all together, using popular concepts from the hit movie,
“The Passion of the Christ”.

          

T A B L E   O F  C O N T E N T S

 

1 Larceny In the Garden 

Creation was almost certainly the greatest “Family” Craft Project of all time (our time, not God’s time). As near as we can tell, God the Father served as “design architect”, God the Son, who would, interestingly enough, become a carpenter during His human life on earth, served as “craftsman” (John 1:3 “All things were made by Him”) and the Holy Spirit provided all the necessary “power”.
 

2 Living In Sin

One only needs to look around to see that every evil in the world is the result of sin. Despite 21st century advances in science, medicine and technology, sin remains as mankind’s
“public enemy number one”.

 

3 Free Will, Faith & Redemption

People ask, “If God is all powerful, why didn’t He simply destroy Satan, forgive Adam and save Himself (and all of us)
a lot of trouble?” 

 

4 Fine Points of Redemption

Satan, blinded by pride, made a number of mistakes.  

First, he actually believed that he could overthrow God.  Next, Satan believed that he could cause God to change His “mind” and alter the divine plan that He (God) had ordained for creation. Finally (probably in a desperate effort to avoid hell) Satan thought he could cleverly appropriate for himself, all of man’s God-given gifts … and that he might actually be allowed to keep them. 

5 Ushering In The Kingdom

The “Kingdom of God” is a state of being which exists any time and any place the Holy Spirit accepts an invitation to take up residence
in a human soul.

   

6 Hello God. Nice To Meet Ya!

God has a Holy Name and He wants you to know it.

7 Yahweh’s Savior

When Yahweh, (I AM) the Eternal God, who knows the end from the beginning, chose to create all things, He knew that man would sin (separating himself from God). He also knew that, left to our own devices, mankind would never be able to make things right again.

  

8 Proof Jesus Is God

For those of us living today, excellent proofs can be found using PROPHECY and HISTORY.

9 Jesus Speaks

The four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) provide us with an extraordinary, divinely inspired collection of literary “snapshots” of the life of Jesus. From conception, birth and childhood, to public life, death, resurrection and ascension, the life of Jesus is a matter of history and is no longer seriously disputed by anyone. Even our modern calendar is based on the year of His birth.

10 The Spirit of Truth

We know the Holy Spirit as the Lord, the Giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. He is the “Mighty Wind” who swept across the waters of the young earth, and the “Breath of Life” who introduced
Adam to his soul.

11 Mary, Universal Mom

The Blessed Virgin Mary came from a good family. Her father (Joachim) was a descendent of King David, and her mother (Anna) was descended from Aaron, the line of priests. Jesus then, possesses a human lineage that is completely appropriate for Messiah.

Even as a man, Jesus is both priest and king.

 

12 The One True Church

The Catholic Church is the one and only Church that was founded by Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word, the Lamb of God, and the second Person of the Holy Trinity. It was founded to replace the religious system of the Old Covenant and its’ reliance on animal sacrifice and keeping the Mosaic Law, with a better system, the New Covenant, which relies solely on the merits of the perfect, sacrificial death and resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and the faith of his church.

13 Jesus, God Man

The Apostle John, known as “the disciple whom Jesus loved”, became the last of the Apostles, the sole survivor, elder “churchman” and the world’s only remaining eyewitness for Christ.  

He spoke of his closest friend, a marvelous, Spirit-filled man who was God Himself, come down from heaven in the flesh, to save mankind: Jesus, the Lamb, the risen Christ. John spoke also of their mother, Mary. After all, it was Jesus himself, who, moments before He died, entrusted His mother to John’s care …

14 Apostles and Priests

In the Gospels we meet the Disciples (followers) of Jesus, ordinary people from every walk of life who, by the grace of God, were able to recognize the divinity in Him. Jesus certainly was a very unusual man, fearlessly speaking out with power and authority against the corruption and evils of those days, never failing to condemn sin while quickly forgiving repentant sinners.

15 The Pope

One of the hallmarks of the Catholic faith is our belief that the Pope is God’s designated and true representative on earth. Firmly rooted in Scripture and confirmed from the earliest times by Apostolic Tradition, the primacy of Simon Peter, “the Rock”, whose office and authority lives on today in our current Pope, remains the solid earthly foundation on which the Catholic Church is built.

16 End Times

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord’s and his Christ’s, and he shall reign
forever and ever.

17 Scriptures for the End

Psalm 58:3-58:8 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things. Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears: Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely. God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions. They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened. Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

18 What Do We Do Now?

Based on the totality of Tradition, Scripture, and the constant teaching of the Church, from the earliest days, I can conclude that there is only one way to salvation.

19 A Catholic Look At the AntiChrist (external source)

“As in Christ dwells the fullness of the Godhead so in Antichrist the fullness of all wickedness. Not indeed in the sense that his humanity
is to be assumed by the devil into unity of person …, but that the devil by suggestion infuses his wickedness more copiously into him than
into all others.” -St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa III:8:8)

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Inspired by the movie The Passion of the Christ directed by Mel Gibson,
which was adapted for the screen from the original work
of the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich.

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