Creation was Subjected to Futility

MV - Lessons on the Epistles of St Paul to the Romans:

231 Jesus is speaking: “I have explained how the immeasurable vanity of wanting to be like God was
that which caused the Sin and its consequences. All of creation, through the fault of the foolish
vanity of man, who was the masterpiece of creation, became acquainted with the ugliness of the Sin
and of sins against God and against one's neighbor. And more than any other inferior creature of the
creation, man was acquainted with it, the superior creature, being the sole creature with a reasoning
nature, free, intellectual, capable not only of physical and even intellectual development, in the
human sense of the word, but of spiritual development, being he, man, according to the just
opinions of the great theologian (St. Augustine): one infinite in power, a power which only God can
fill. It is truly like this. And it has been like this from the moment man has existed, nor could the Sin,
though strongly invalidating this power, have deprived man of these two qualities which God had
placed in him when creating him. In the same primigenial couple, after a sorrow for the death of Abel
dissipated the foolish fumes of pride which up to that moment that had kept man enslaved to the
suggestion of the eternal Rebel, this unconscious power was reawakened under the impact of the sin
and of the punishment. And man, lifting up his gaze towards Heaven [which he had] lost, searching
for He who had justly driven him out, felt once again that only God could comfort his sorrow, fill his
desire of love, and sustain his moral strengths with eternal hopes and with the promise which had
descended into Adam together with the condemnation, that his seducer would have been conquered
and that the freedom from his infamous anguish, that is, the restitution of the state of Grace, and
therefore, of the inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven, would have come by means of the Woman,
who being the Virgin, would have given birth to the Emmanuel, the Savior and Redeemer. And so,
therefore, the creation, subjected to futility and one could say, impeded to progress towards its final
perfection: that of the spirit always more triumphant upon matter, resumed its walk towards the
light, towards on high, towards God, its End to whom it had turned its back by descending down the
slope which did not only bring from the terrestrial paradise to Earth, but from it towards the
kingdom of darkness and sin. It is true, Grace was missing, sun of the soul which because of her
[Grace], she [the soul] sees distinctly, which because of her [Grace], virtues germinate and grow in
perfection; however, the conscience and its voice remained: the paternal call of God to Himself and
to the ultimate end; that is, there remained in man, all one with the spiritual soul and joined to it,
that sufficient minimum enabling him to aim towards his end, that terrain fit to receive, up to the re-
integration of Grace, those lights which God had always generously given to every man no matter
how guilty he may be, and enabling him to keep that knowledge and love of God alive, which man
had received from the Same together with life and that were innate in him. Paul writes - and it is a
misunderstood phrase either due to incapacity to understand or wanting to misunderstand with the
purpose of discouraging men from pursuing the Good in order to enjoy Heaven since there is no
salvation for man with a sinful tendency; a heretical theory born from the branches that separated
themselves from the trunk of the mystical Vine, from the rebellious members who have detached
themselves from the mystical Body; a profession against the divine Love who created by
predestinating to Grace and to Glory, and not for damnation, and which the teaching Church justly
condemns - Paul writes, ‘Subjected to futility not through her own will, but of He who subjected it
with the hope that she too can be freed from the servitude of corruption in order to take part in the
glorious liberty of the children of God.’ Now many, sacrilegious, heretics, deniers of the most
important attribute of God, satans because they are haters of love and of truth, take this phrase as a
basis for their own pseudo-religion and say, ‘Do you see who wanted your fall, your weaknesses, your
ruin?, Him, the one whom you call ‘father.’ No. To this horrendous blaspheme (To speak of (God or a
sacred entity) in an irreverent, impious manner), to this insinuation of the most subtle diabolical
astuteness, I reply. And I reply thus. God put man to the test in order to confirm him in Grace. And
this was for those who knew how to be just men even after one or more momentary fall, purified by
a sincere repentance and by ardent charity. While for the rebellious Angels whose angelical nature
was superior to that of humans - so much that it is said of Christ, ‘You have made him a little lower
than the angels’ - there was neither a promise of forgiveness for them, nor immutability of however
much was fit in them to be brought back to their original beatific condition through perfect contrition
and perfect love, for man, there was all this and even more: the voices of the Patriarchs and Prophets
reconfirming the promise of the Redeemer contained in the Book of Genesis, the revelations of God
through His manifestations and inspirations to the Patriarchs, to Moses - the liberator and legislator
of the Hebrew people - to Joshua, to the Prophets, and culminating in a prodigy of the donation,
teachings and immolations of the Son of God. Never did God take away the predestination of Grace
for all men. Never. Because God is not fickle in His wills, and that which He wills once, He wills
forever, for however much depends on His will. Never, for as far as God did not act as He had acted
by ‘hoping’ as it is inappropriately written, but by ‘knowing,’ God ignores nothing. Therefore, hoping
is denied to Him. Whoever ignores the future of everything and of individuals, hopes. Not one who,
like God, ignores nothing and knows everything, from His Eternity to the destiny of everyone.
Therefore, it is to be said and believed that God subjected creation to the test, in its most perfect
creature, fully knowing that it would have sinned with pride and rebellion due to the vanity of
wanting to become like God, yet wanting to give it the measureless measure of His love for men.
Before the creation of man, and therefore of the trial, God had already established the Means with
which man would have been free at the start from the servitude of corruption and then given the joy
of the glorious liberty of the children of God, having attained his share of the inheritance in the
celestial Kingdom. Therefore, God did not want your fall, or your weakness, or your ruin. But by
wanting to give to Himself a population of children, He created you, and knowing that you would not
have persevered in Grace, even before creating you, He preordained the most Holy Means, none
holier and more powerful, in order to save you and give you your share in His Kingdom. Therefore,
even here, one can say that the infinite and insatiable Love of God for men, His adopted children,
shines in all its truth.”

The Real Consequences of Original Sin

MV - Epistle of St Paul to the Romans:

132-135 Jesus speaks: “To fully understand the words of Paul, one needs to take Original Sin well
into consideration. A lesson that has been given many times, but that is never given enough because
the sorrowful reality of that sin and the sorrowful, real consequences of it are often denied or are
placed in doubt by many, by too many. And amongst these, there are plenty of those who more than
anyone else should be convinced of the reality of original sin and of its consequences on account of
the studies carried out, and above all, through their ministerial experience which continuously place
before their wise eyes the decadence of man, who from a perfect creature has mutated into a weak
and imperfect creature against the assaults of Satan, and of what is around and within man, the
marvelous creation enviously disturbed by the Enemy of God because of original sin. Someone will
say, ‘A lesson which repeats itself, and therefore, a useless lesson.’ It is always useful, for when it is
required, you never know enough, neither for yourselves nor for others. It matters too much to Satan
that you not know it! And for this reason, he creates blurs in you to darken your correct knowledge
of this episode which has had no end or limit since the day in which he saw it and in those who
committed it, but that, as through the seed and through blood all men have inherited life (existence)
from Adam and Eve – and in the last man to be born on Earth, there will still be the descendancy of
the two First Humans – thus, out of a fatal inheritance, it propagates itself from Adam, the first
generator, from progeny to progeny, to all the children of man until the last one to be generated. To
thoroughly understand the confession of Paul, the desolate voice of all men who in wanting to do
good perfectly feel incapable of executing it with the desired perfection, one needs to contemplate
the fruit of the Sin first, and therefore, also of the first Sin, so as not to find condemnation and the
consequences unjust. Paul confesses, ‘I am carnal, sold and subject to sin.’ And he continues, ‘I do
not know what I do; For I do not the good which I will, but the evil which I hate. Even if then I do
what I will not, I acknowledge just the same that the law is good (in prohibiting or commanding what
it prohibits and commands), however, (when I do the evil which I hate with my better part, whereas I
do not the good that I would like to do) I am not, in these moments, I who act, but sin that lives in
me. Good does not live in my flesh. The will to do it is present in me, but I cannot find the way of
accomplishing it. When I have a will to do good, according to the inward man, but I see in my
members another law which opposes itself to the law of my mind and it makes me a captive to the
law of sin that is in my members. ‘I am carnal.’ Even Adam was formed of flesh besides the spirit. But
he wasn’t carnal since the spirit and reason ruled above matter. And the innocent spirit, full of Grace
had an admirable resemblance with His Creator, intelligent enough to comprehend how much he
surpasses all natural things. The elevation of man to the supernatural order, that is, to the progeny
of God by means of Grace, had elevated the intelligence of man, already very vast on account of the
preternatural gift of innate knowledge and ability, therefore, of understanding all natural things, to
the supernatural intelligence of being able to comprehend what is incomprehensible to one who is
not predisposed by supernatural gift: of being able to comprehend God, and to a lesser extent, of
being able to be a faithful image from every humiliating restriction. Splendid freedom of man full of
grace! A freedom respected by God Himself, a freedom not under minded by exterior forces or by
internal stimuli. The sublime regality of the deified man, a son of God and heir to Heaven, a
dominating regality upon all creatures and upon the one who is often now your tyrant: the I in which
the poisons of the great wound ferment unceasingly within you. When one says, ‘man, king of the
sensible creation, was created with the power of dominion upon all creatures,’ one needs to reflect
that he, because of Grace, and for the other gifts received from the first moment of his being, was
made to be king even of himself and of his instincts, out of knowledge of his ultimate purpose, for
the love that made him supernaturally tend towards it, and for the dominion over matter and the
senses existing in it. Joined to the Order and love of the Love, he was created to know how to give to
God what He is due and what is lawful to give to the ‘I’ without debaucheries or instinctual
dissoluteness. The spirit, intellect, and matter constituted a total harmony in him, and this harmony
was present from the first moment of his being, not in successive phases as some want to believe.”