Catholics: Do you agree that many things that attack the body of Christ on Earth?

Question

are things like those that the physical body is suseptible to?
For instance: viruses attack the cells and insert their own stuff into the nucleous so that cell starts making other cells just like it (faulty theology). Then there is bacteria like the stuff that puts out a poison that just starts putrifying the place up (such as the sex scandal---staff infection) This latest ends the way that all staff infections usually do with a boil on the body, but the boil has brought the infection to a head so it may be lanced and the poison drained. Do you see how it is?

as examples people get them unless you're a biology major...lol

Answer 1

an excellent point, i would agree with your premise

Answer 2

We crucify Jesus, day by day,
In the things we do,
And the words we say.
His Body, the Church laid out
Upon the cross of the world;
We drive wedges, sharp and cruel,
Not merely to affix the corpse thereto
In caricature of execution, redemption's tool,
But to sever the limbs, break bones in two.
We see atonement, purchased thereby,
Only applicable to our particular crumb
As if the whole loaf were not sanctified,
But only "the elect" for whom He died.
In our perfection we deny
Both benefit and necessity
And allow no grace but what we mediate
Loving our Lord, while our brother we hate.
If only Peter, more perfect he,
And Paul less irascible he might be
Each an apostle fit for Jesus' choice,
But neither these days would find voice
In a church ruled by image instead of Lord,
Innocent of need for living Word.

Yes many things attack the body, but the worst things come from the body itself. The body lacks immunity because it lacks education. Where there is no vision, the people perish. Catholics often do not continue their education beyond their childhood, so many maintain and operate from childish views, not really knowing the doctrine of the Church. Others fall away and sadly begin to parrot the criticisms they hear around themselves. Still others only look inwardly, becoming encapsulated cancers. which then break loose and metastasize. Some can only operate from shame-based morality, and in the shame and blame game there's always more than enough of the brown stuff to go around and no one comes up smelling sweet. The Body can be healthy, it was built to be so. Nourish it, tend it, open it to the Son light.

Answer 3

It depends on how you choose to interpret it. A virus itself has no meaning; a virus is an extremely simple protoorganism that latches onto specific cells of specific species, injects its RNA, and in turn forces the cell to replicate that RNA and duplicate that virus en masse. A virus exists simply to exist. The same can be said for infectious bacteria, even if bacteria's methods for infection are vastly different to a virus (by the way, it's a "staph" infection, not "staff"--it's short for staphylococcus, which is a specific type of bacteria). Whether you choose to interpret the rather basic and natural ways that bacteria and viruses exist and procreate to behavorial parallels on a human scale is up to you; but humans do not literally do the same things that bacteria or viruses do. Also--boils do not contain "poison", nor is it generally wise to lance them. There are different kind of boils, and usually they're full of pus--which is mostly made up of dead leukocytes, or white blood cells, which in and of themselves are not "poison".

Other than that, I'm not quite clear on what parallels you're trying to draw from these examples.

Answer 4

These attacks are necessary for the purification that is taking place in the hearts of men not the church herself

Answer 5

True, but I dont think a bacterial infection will turn you away from God.

Answer 6

great analogy!

Yes, I agree.

Answer 7

No I see that it is sin and no man is perfect. do not expect them to be.