Posted on 10/13/2014 4:15:07 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
I got that wrong. Jesus came to fulfill the law.
"God is always new; he never denies himself, he never says that what he had said is wrong, but he always surprises us," the pope said.
Seems to me that's precisely what he said.
“God’s laws are meant to lead all people to Christ and his glory, and if they do not, then they are obsolete . . ..”
It’s hard to believe he said this. If the laws are really God’s, how can they properly be changed.
Moreover, there is the question of what coming to Christ actually means. If it is possible without following any laws or rules that might get in the way, are we left with the counsel to love God and do what you will — perhaps with loving God finally interpreted as doing what you will?
Indeed. And the one posted above is particularly obnoxious.
Well then, Francis, how can God's own Laws, such as the Sixth Commandment, become obsolete if God never denies Himself?
So does this mean that ... God changed his mind? Maybe it means that if men of free will choose to not follow the laws that the laws need to be changed to be made more agreeable to sinful men?
When these cardinals elected him Pope surely they knew what he was like as he must have been shooting his mouth off all his life, right? It leads me to wonder if this was planned by leftists in the Catholic Church to put a loose cannon in there to shake things up
There is a difference between the minute regulations of the Pharisees and the moral laws at stake today in the Catholic Church. God’s moral laws don’t change. And affirming people in sin, which is what “gradualism” and saying only nice things will do in practice at least, doesn’t lead them to Jesus.
I’ll agree with that headline
Great! With all due respect to Pope Francis, the "new age" Pope has evidently been indoctrinated with falsehoods about the Holy Bible as much as USA judges have been indoctrinated with falsehoods about the Constitution.
Bingo!
Anything goes as long as they are “brought to Jesus”?
I guess that would depend on the definition of “brought to Jesus”
Many of us tread extremely lightly when it come to voicing concerns about this new Pope.
“whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven”
But its nice to know that in the end, God has our back.
Liberation theology.
Bump for your remarks.
Contact (FReep) your Bishop!
http://usccb.org/about/bishops-and-dioceses/all-dioceses.cfm
Wow - this pretty much puts man (with all of his sin) in control of what’s right and what’s wrong.
That’s more than a little scary. And straight from the pit of hell.
>>Liberation theology.
Methodists call it “Social Gospel”, but regardless of the name, its just Marxism with a Bible book cover.
>>Contact (FReep) your Bishop!
I’m a former Methodist, so I no longer have a Bishop.
That’s not Jesus’ purpose. The Old Testament says God would make a New Covenant. And why?
-The OT gave laws of right and wrong. To disregard them was to disobey God.
-But to keep them resulted in pride and self-righteousness.
-And no one can even truly keep them perfectly, especially in the heart.
-What’s needed is a new spiritual nature, and that comes by believing on Christ as Savior.
-Christ was able to take our punishment because He deserved no punishment Himself. And someone needed to take it. As much as God wants to forgive, He must also be just. He absolutely MUST punish ALL sin. But, one can believe on Him, and His sacrifice for us, and have our due punishment cancelled. That is the Gospel: God not counting our sins against us.
-This solution takes care of the problem of PRIDE, which deceives us into thinking we’re good and so can depend on ourselves and our own judgment..
-When we know we’re not good, and can’t tell it for ourselves, then we come to depend on the Lord. When we know (CONT’D)
It is disheartening to think that the Westboro Baptist Church is actually closer to the moral teaching of the Church on sodomy as one of the sins crying out to heaven for vengeance than this Synod of Bishops is.
Not right, but still closer.
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