Listening to various channels I came across this guy more than once. I agree with him on Trump but I need to lean on RVF to judge the rest he's talking about, especially the 'prophecies'.
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Eric Gajewski (TradCatKnight)
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Listening to various channels I came across this guy more than once. I agree with him on Trump but I need to lean on RVF to judge the rest he's talking about, especially the 'prophecies'.
His youtube channel and website seem very commercially focused. From a first glance, it looks as if he focuses on extremely fringe topics within Catholicism, and also it seems like he's adopting a lot of illuminati-conspiracy talking points. I expect he finds this good for business.
I'm trying to be nice, but there are so many red flags here.
Let's talk about prophecies in general.
- "Public revelation" is intended for the whole human race, so that everyone can know the truths necessary for salvation.
- The kind of "Catholic prophecies" being talked about are not public revelation. We call them "private revelation".
- God can have many purposes for giving private revelations to a particular person. But no one is required in Catholic faith to believe in any of them.
- Sometimes private revelations are genuinely from God; other times, they are false revelations, either from a person's own deranged mind, or from a demonic influence. The only authority competent to judge the difference is Apostolic authority.
- Even if a private revelation is a genuine communication from God, it is not thereby guaranteed to be "free from all error" in the way that Scripture is. Even genuine private revelations can still be distorted by a person's own flaws in memory, recollection, understanding, imagination, or whatever. The truth can be mixed with falsehood. Genuine revelations from God can be mixed with demonic deceptions.
- The most that the Catholic Church ever dares to pronounce about a particular private revelation is that it is worthy of belief. In other words: it's credible. Not that it is true; not that there are no falsehoods mixed with the truth in it; merely that it is credible.
If all this is so, what's the point of private revelation? Well, God is a perfect lover—maybe he just wants to give some specific soul a sweet little token of his love. God knows people's hearts; maybe some specific people will be moved to repentance and salvation by hearing of these prophecies. Or lukewarm Christians will be awakened to fervor.
In other words, the point of private revelation is always someone's personal sanctification. Maybe yours. It's got nothing to do with satisfying vain curiosities or quelling insecurities about the future. And, again, private revelations can contain errors.
Given all this, can you see how that using private revelations as, like, some kind of scientific set of premises, to use logic on and work out in detail, for example, how the end of the world is going to come about—can you see how that is a totally wrong approach to private revelation?
If anyone is looking into private revelation, he should ask himself: is this helping me to love God more, or not?
Private revelation is a tool. You use it if it suits the purpose at hand, and put it away if it doesn't. And the purpose is always to help you love God.
I'm trying to be nice, but there are so many red flags here.
Let's talk about prophecies in general.
- "Public revelation" is intended for the whole human race, so that everyone can know the truths necessary for salvation.
- The kind of "Catholic prophecies" being talked about are not public revelation. We call them "private revelation".
- God can have many purposes for giving private revelations to a particular person. But no one is required in Catholic faith to believe in any of them.
- Sometimes private revelations are genuinely from God; other times, they are false revelations, either from a person's own deranged mind, or from a demonic influence. The only authority competent to judge the difference is Apostolic authority.
- Even if a private revelation is a genuine communication from God, it is not thereby guaranteed to be "free from all error" in the way that Scripture is. Even genuine private revelations can still be distorted by a person's own flaws in memory, recollection, understanding, imagination, or whatever. The truth can be mixed with falsehood. Genuine revelations from God can be mixed with demonic deceptions.
- The most that the Catholic Church ever dares to pronounce about a particular private revelation is that it is worthy of belief. In other words: it's credible. Not that it is true; not that there are no falsehoods mixed with the truth in it; merely that it is credible.
If all this is so, what's the point of private revelation? Well, God is a perfect lover—maybe he just wants to give some specific soul a sweet little token of his love. God knows people's hearts; maybe some specific people will be moved to repentance and salvation by hearing of these prophecies. Or lukewarm Christians will be awakened to fervor.
In other words, the point of private revelation is always someone's personal sanctification. Maybe yours. It's got nothing to do with satisfying vain curiosities or quelling insecurities about the future. And, again, private revelations can contain errors.
Given all this, can you see how that using private revelations as, like, some kind of scientific set of premises, to use logic on and work out in detail, for example, how the end of the world is going to come about—can you see how that is a totally wrong approach to private revelation?
If anyone is looking into private revelation, he should ask himself: is this helping me to love God more, or not?
Private revelation is a tool. You use it if it suits the purpose at hand, and put it away if it doesn't. And the purpose is always to help you love God.
Polish name, pronounced like Gayevski.