Tuesday, May 21 (8), 2024
Acts 8:5-17; Jn. 6:27-33                                                      

“Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip” [Acts 8:13].  He believed and was baptized, ─ all to no avail.  Evidently, there was something wrong in the setup of his faith.  Genuine faith means rebuilding of one’s mind.  The mind ought to be stripped bare and given to the faith as a blank page, to receive a clear imprinting of the faith, without any admixture of alien contents.  If the mind keeps some of its former contents, then, when the tenets of faith are inscribed upon it, there will be a mixture of both, and confusion is inevitable when they collide with one another.

Such was Simon, a typical heretic; such were all those who entered the realm of faith with reasoning of their own, from the remote past until this day.  They get confused in the faith and bring nothing except harm: for themselves, when they are silent, and for others, when their confusion is not confined within, but breaks outside, as they are willing to teach everyone else. 

Such is the origin of an endless row of reformers with fallacies of various degree, with the woeful conviction of infallibility and disastrous zeal to convert everyone to their fold.

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