@rajk999 said
Christ does not need to be omnipotent to read the mans heart and mind. Tell Fr. Chad I said that, and he should not add to or change what Jesus said to suit his church doctrine.
Lets get back to the story in the opening post which I notice you did not address. What did Jesus say the man lacketh? The man believed in God and he had faith and he followed the Low of Moses. What is the something else that was missing for him to get eternal life in the Kingdom of God.
So Christ is not God, and was incapable of knowing the man's heart -- he merely
guessed it or
inferred it from some clue like a conman? This is heretical.
The man lacked
charity. He was full of attachment and greed.
I do not think that you could say that he
lacked good works for good works sake.
Or, in this case, Christ was literally calling him to do the one last big thing and to enter the monastic life with Christ (the life of Nazarines or Essenes, as it would have been understood at this time and understood by Jews of this day and age), and was calling him to be like Him.
Remember when Elijah met Elisha?
2 Kings 19:
19So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
20And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
21And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
There is the Old Testament potential parallel with this, yet the man has
refused his calling to Christ because of his love of wealth.
how else would we explain the fact that others in the Bible are
not told to give up all of their possessions, but are merely told things like
your faith has made you well, and to
go forth and sin no more?
I think you are stretching this to an extreme interpretation -- and one that is also heretical in the sense that you are advancing that
it is works that save.
I would also point out that Kelley rightfully pointed out here that
Christ said in this passage that none can do good but God.