Can Christian make repairs
to the Bible?

Among Catholics and Evangelicals is who do not judge that Christian cannot discredit the Scriptures, and, based on this assumption, they take away from Spiritism the quality of Christian religion because, in their view, two leading spirit thinkers – Kardec and Denis - had denied in their writings, the divine inspiration of the Bible.

Using biblical texts to refute the teachings that make up the spiritual doctrine is an ancient practice. The Bible is, for these people, a work untouchable, divine, flawless!

This is curious because, as we know, the Scriptures published by Protestants publishers, repeating conduct attributed to the Jews, do not include the books of Judith, Tobias, Books I and II of the Maccabeus, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch and part of the book of Esther.

Reject part of the Bible makes the religions that they do so non-Christian? Are not Christian Religions derived from Reform? When Catholics and Evangelicals fail to fulfill the rite of circumcision, pursuant to the Mosaic laws; are they no longer Christians because of that?

The questions above only serve to show that a person or a doctrine may disapprove the Bible and does not mean losing the Christian condition.

Jesus also made serious restrictions to practices in the Old Testament which was received as status of law as the observance of the Sabbath.

The repeal of the law of eye for an eye, the proposal of love to enemies, not the stoning of the adulterous woman, the fair treatment that gave the lepers, where it was determined by the Old Testament they should be banned, here are some examples of a new order, incompatible with the Mosaic requirements, ie, the call Bible. 

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The implication that some religious people have towards Spiritualism is not only the result of prejudice, but of ignorance of what is happening in their own camp of Christianity.

In Brazil, Father Bonaventura Kloppenburg, the fiercest opponent of Spiritism in our country; in Italy, Father Gino Concetti, commentator of the Osservatore Roman, the official organ of the Vatican; in France, Father François Brune, author of "Dead speak to us "- they all admit the psychic facts and relations between us and the dead. Father Brune admits even the reincarnation of the basic principles of spirit doctrine.

In an interview with Globo TV and the ANSA news agency, Gino Concetti had became public in 1997, the new position of the Church with respect to mediumship and the relations between us and the Spirits.

Then the priest Concetti said that the Church not only admits communication with the dead, as recognizes to have a contact with the souls of loved ones who have departed to the afterlife can relieve those who have perhaps been disturbed by this trance. "According to the modern catechism - said the theologian - God allows our dear departed who live in the Outer Dimension send messages to guide us in certain moments of life. After the new discoveries in the field of psychology of the paranormal, Church has decided not to prohibit the experience of dialogue with the deceased, under the condition that they be taken with a serious religious and scientific purpose. "

There should cause no surprise, therefore, that the Father Boaventura Kloppenburg wrote in his book "Spiritism and Faith," which states that, as the spiritists, Catholics admit:

a) that the deceased do not break their ties with those still living on earth;

b) they may, therefore, help us and assistance;

c) that the disembodied spirits can manifest or communicate with us perceptibly;

d) that such manifestations can be of two types: spontaneous and induced. The spontaneous are those that have their origin or initiative in afterlife, as the angel Gabriel (Luke 1:26-38). The induced are those which have their own initiative in the physical world, for example the case of King Saul that evoked Samuel by Endor’s pythoness. (Samuel, 28:3-25).

With respect to Father François Brune, remember - as we said in this same space in the last issue - he admits that the dead speak to us and make it number of ways, as shown in the books "Dead speak to us" and "In direct line with afterlife", published in Brazil by Edicel.

It is noteworthy that none of them are dissenting from Catholicism, but rather are persons of expression and activity in the Church.