[Greek] ποιητής (poiētēs), [Latin] poeta, [Latin] factor: maker, doer, producer, performer, artist, poet, author, poet; Rom. 2:13, Jas.1:22-25, Jas.4:11, Act 17:28
Greek Hellenism: This term means maker, begetter, inventor, composer, author, poet, workman.
Xenophon’s Cyropaedia 11.638: “You yourself must also be an inventor of strategems against the enemy, just as musicians render compositions.”
Plato’s Republic 10.597d: “It seems we shall call him its true and natural begetter.”
Plato’s Euthyprho 3b: “For he say I am a maker of gods’ and I make new gods and do not believe in the old ones So he brought the indictment against you for making innovations in religion.”
Ancient Greeks: The ancient Greeks had no word corresponding to “to create” or “creator.” The Greek verb poieo meaning “to make” sufficed. This term applied only to poetry. In a sense, the poet was a creator. The poet brought a creation to the world. This was in contrast to art, which already had existing rules and laws.
Ancient Romans: These Greek concepts were partly shaken. Poets and other artists now are seen as creators. The Romans had a term for creating, “creation” and “creator.” The classical Greeks had not yet applied inspiration and imagination to the other arts.
Old Testament: This term, used extensively, refers to the work of God’s hand in creation. God’s works are created. This term is not used for creator.
New Testament: This term means poets and doers. A poet creates and composes a poem. Those who hear and observe (act on) the law and Word in the sight of God will be justified. In contrast, a hearer who does not act deludes himself.
Scripture:
Rom.2:13: “For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; rather, those who observe the law will be justified.” (It is not enough to hear the law. One needs to follow the law. The Gentiles stand on equal moral footing with the Jews. The Jews cannot condemn the sins of Gentiles without condemning themselves. God made it possible for the Gentiles to instinctively know the difference between right and wrong. The final judgment will be a review of performance, not of privilege.)
Acts 17:28: “For ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’ as even some of your poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’” (Paul makes reference to the poet Aratus who praises Zeus, who embodies a pantheism (divine reason) that permeates every facet of human endeavor. In response, Paul states that the Athenians unknowingly worship an “Unknown God” who does not dwell in sanctuaries and does not need to be served by human hands. Paul states that we must examine divinity from the standpoint of judgment, not creation.)
Jas.1:22: “Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.” (To be quick to hear [and do] the gospel means to accept it readily and to act in conformity with it. This also includes removing such obstacles. To listen to gospel message, but not practicing it becomes a failure to improve oneself.)
Jas.1:23: “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror.” (This person sees himself as he truly is. The word forces us to see the true “face of our souls.” When he walks away, he forgets what he looks like [who he really is].)
Jas.1:25: “But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does.” (This is the image of a person who hears the word of God. By following God’s will, one is freed from the bondage of sin, defects, and worldly values. In a sense, one can find true freedom by being “controlled” by God.)
Jas.4:11 “Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. Whoever speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law.” (Slander of a fellow Christian breaks the commandment of “loving thy neighbor” and mocks the law’s authority and God.)
Becoming creators of Modernism:
- Vital immanence: the Modernists create within themselves an explanation (sentiment) for religion, faith, and doctrine. Outside sources for religion must be excluded.
- The Modernists are “renewing” and “reforming” Jesus Church into a synodal Church in the image of man and his lived experiences. Tradition and the TLM must go.
- The Vatican’s Synodal Penitential Celebration is creating new sins: ex. sins of using doctrine as a stone, sins against synodality. New sins ==> new Church
- The Modernists are creating a new Church where homosexuality is no longer sinful. Fr. James Martin even said that St. Paul got it wrong about homosexuality. Let that sink in!
- The Jesuit Fr. Reese states that Catholics and Protestant should receive Communion side by side. (Yet existing Church teachings state that is sacrilege violating Church teachings.)
- Modernists seek to remove decentralize Church authority and Church teachings to the local level. This sounds very Protestant!
- The Vatican’s synodal document recommends abandoning objective morality for situational morality. Fr. James Martin is pleased. This is a Church moving with the world.
- The Modernists are seeking to create a new Mass having a better expression of synodality. Does this mean incorporation cultural customs and paganism in the Mass?
- Cardinals Cupich, Tobin, McElroy are requesting that the USCCB be organized in a more synodal way. (These cardinals are Pope Francis’ pope-splainers and lackeys.)
- The Vatican has created a Japanese anime character Luce, rather than actual young saints, to inspire young people. (The Church is try to remain hip with the world.)
- The Vatican just approved a Mayan rite of the Mass. (This is just another example of mixing cultural issues, paganism, and secularism in the Mass.)
Conclusion:
Poet, poem, poetry, factor
It is interesting that the Greeks elevated the creative aspects of poetry. Poetry still can be considered as a very creative form of literature.
James points out that faith without works is essentially dead. One must act upon one’s faith. Be a hearer AND a doer.
Update: Modernists seek to create an explanation for religion inside themselves and lived experiences. Modernists are content creators (developing doctrine, faith, religion inside their minds) ==> Modernism. This sounds quite Protestant.
Modernists’ subjective human decisions ultimately lead to heresies and atheism.
In their arrogance, Modernists claimed that Jesus’s Church’s ecclesiology has changed to a synodal Church in the image of man and his lived experiences. This leads to a universal ecumenism and moral relativism.
In his efforts to be ecumenical and nice to other faiths, Pope Francis has made very problematic and heretical statements about salvation.
Pope Francis and his fellow Modernists need to look at themselves in the mirror in creating such liturgical confusion and chaos in the Church. All of us are seeing their true character in despising Tradition.
Many faithful Catholics are now rightfully claiming that Pope Francis’ new Synodal Church will fail. This is actually supported by Acts 5:38: “If this endeavor (activity) is of human origin, it will destroy itself.”
Quotes:
“Whoever wants to be come a Christian must first become a poet.” Pophyrios of Kavskalyvia