"Where do I sign up?"
Posted on 12/12/2014 4:16:12 PM PST by FR_addict
We've all heard the expression "all dogs go to heaven." On Wednesday, the spiritual leader of 1.2 billion people around the world gave it his imprimatur.
During his weekly address in the Vatican on Wednesday, Pope Francis was consoling a little boy who had recently lost his dog, assuring the boy that he and his furry friend would reunite in heaven.
“One day, we will see our animals again in the eternity of Christ. Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures,” the pontiff said, according to Italian news sources.
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The theology is extremely well developed. You should sit down with a bible and a bible dictionary, the Lord has already well answered the question.
That would be your attitude toward someone you dearly loved on earth, but was burning alive forever in the afterlife?
If I was truly drawn into feeling I dearly loved the person, then I would say well, I had been fooled by hell’s puppet.
Nobody goes to hell except that they choose it.
Chapter & verse, please.
They only suffer from the sin of man.
So you get all huffy and puffy and call me an idiot eh?
You don’t know thing one about the theology of loveS... yes, loveS as in plural. It is not all the same thing.
If dogs can go to heaven, can they go to hell?
"Where do I sign up?"
You got to die first, pup, don’t be in such a hurry
Will dogs in heaven have fleas? I guess the better question would be: do fleas go to heaven too?
No more fleas
Unfortunately, I expect I'll be in a considerably hotter place.
““Bacteria and viruses don’t have much biblical support for having souls.”
Well they are God’s creatures, so is the Pope just pulling this out of his ass?”
Yep. Dogs are God’s creatures ... and so are humans. If dogs can get to heaven without belief in Christ then humans can as well. Pit bulls and muslims are both God’s creatures. So are insects. This sort of ‘thinking’ veers away from the gospel of Jesus Christ.
You don’t need to be in a hotter place, unless you insist on saying no to the remedy.
Fooled into loving another person? I thought you were supposed to love your fellow man unconditionally.
Very well put!
I know the Lord's love because He lives within me.
He would also snap you neck like a twig if your tried to kill one of His beloved (and they all are...and you will account to Him for those you have killed).
Wrong. Everybody goes to Hell that knows right and wrong, but fails to choose Christ as their only Savior. Starting with Adam.
That is a big fat non sequitur. People need belief in Christ because they can sin and have sinned.
Animals never sin, even the most “vicious” of them. Sin is not defined for them because righteousness is not defined for them.
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