Thread by @OnePeterFive

1/24 Against the Errors of
@JamesMartinSJ

His best-selling book Building a Bridge, promoted by notorious prelates, includes many erroneous teachings which imperil souls.

2/24 He promotes his errors under a veil of compassion, but in reality these are acts of HATRED for wounded souls who need real charity.

As such, he marginalises them by placating the “LGBT” ideology, which is an ideology of hatred for these poor souls.

3/24 His central error destroys the spiritual nature of the struggle with unnatural lusts and provides a bridge to hell.

Here is a Catholic who struggles with same-sex attraction (SSA) who writes against him: couragegulfcoast.wixsite.com/blog/single-po…

4/24 Here is James Martin ridiculing the law of Moses for condemning sodomy, by falsely equating the natural precepts with the ceremonial and judicial precepts:

5/24 In his book Building a Bridge he erroneously advocates for the identity term "LGBT," advocating that pious Catholics should self-identify with their own temptations.

He condemns the use of the term SSA, which is the correct term for an unnatural temptation (p. 23, 88).

6/24 He excoriates the Church for being hurtful to souls with SSA, but ignores the work of Courage International, which has done great work for decades.
This misleads souls into blaming the institution instead of facing their temptations and getting help. couragerc.org

7/24 His definition of the Gospel is erroneous: he believes that the Gospel exists to make someone have a positive emotional experience.

This is the false Gospel of Psychology. onepeterfive.com/effeminacy-and…

8/24 He confuses mortal and venial sin by arguing that parishes should fire people for not helping the poor or being loving, since we fire people for contracting homosexual "marriage" (p. 30).

9/24 He fails to distinguish between temptations and actual sin, which is a crucial distinction in the spiritual life, reinforcing his poisonous teaching that people with SSA should self-identify as LGBT. onepeterfive.com/sin-suggestion…

10/24 He praises ++Schönborn for supporting a same-sex union at the Synod on the Family 2015 and overruling one of his priests from preventing an active homosexual man on the parish council (although it is admitted that these unions cannot be termed regular) (p. 42).

11/24 Uses vague phrases like Jesus “saw no categories but individuals” (p. 43). The book is littered with these perilous phrases designed (it seems) to evoke emotional feelings instead of true charity based on truth.
This creates confusion for souls with SSA and imperils them.

12/24 States that the phrase "objectively disordered" is unnecessarily cruel (p. 47) since it says the "deepest parts of a person currently gives and receives love is disordered."
This is a dangerous error, since he is asserting that the Catechism is cruel for telling the truth.

13/24 This is an astounding claim, which would make the dogma of Original Sin cruel.

The term "cruel" also indicates malice, which ends up ascribing malice to God Himself.

He then misdefines charity as avoiding the truth in this case.

14/24 He also says that many bishops and priests are "gay" so this helps "build a bridge" with those who self-identify as "LGBT" (p. 63). This heavily implies (as the whole book does) that the Catholic Church does not seek to heal their wounds, but affirm their identity with sin.

15/24 He excludes Catholics who refuse to identify as LGBT or have been healed from their SSA.

This omission creates a terrible error with souls since he already told them to self-identify with their temptations.

16/24 His definition of Tradition is vague (p. 70), compromising the authority of the Church to help heal souls from SSA, and commends social justice as the definition of holiness.

17/24 He never once mentions eternal salvation, reinforcing the false Gospel of Psychology.

18/24 He says there is no right way to pray and falsely identifies his feelings with God (p. 82), which denies the definition of the term orthodoxy (“right worship”).

19/24 Implies that homosexual acts are not sinful by saying that our Lord accepts us as we are (p. 103).

20/24 Uses vague phrase of "community first conversion" when describing our Lord, yet Martin never describes conversion in his book (p. 10).

21/24 Compares the proclamation of Our lord’s identity with “coming out” as LGBT (p. 123).

22/24 He states that Our Lord encourages everyone to embrace their dignity, in this context implying again that souls with SSA should self identify with their temptations in order to have dignity (p. 147).

23/24 Throughout his book, James Martin uses emotional manipulation in order to coerce souls into accepting their own sin instead of overcoming it. This is a massive error which he will answer for at the day of judgment. Please say a Hail Mary for his conversion.

24/24 Note: these page numbers refer to the first edition of the book.