Posted on 10/28/2014 3:19:32 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
In an exciting declaration, Pope Francis I stated that God should not seen as a “magician with a magic wand,” while unveiling a statue of his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Pope Francis also stated that evolution and the Big Bang theory are both true and not incompatible with the church’s views on the origins of the universe and life.
“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,” Francis said, according to the Independent. Francis continued by stating that God “created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
The liberal media love the "God is not a magician" quote:
<"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/pope-francis-evolution_n_6057378.html">Pope Francis: 'Evolution Is Not Inconsistent With The Notion Of Creation' (Huffington Post) <"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/28/pope-francis-god-is-not-a-magician-with-a-magic-wand.html">Even the Pope Isn't a Hard-core Creationist (Daily Beast)
This is the link for the Salon article:
Clearly he needs to be schooled in scripture.
Someone tell me the Pope was taken out of context.
And for the other two:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/27/pope-francis-evolution_n_6057378.html
Wait for it......something was lost in the translation.
There will be a back track.
Beginning to think he’s never seen a Bible
The pope does not believe the Bible.
“God Not Able to do everything.” Pope Frankie....
FAIL!
this guys a dangerous heretic these words prove it.
For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. Jude 1:4
What grotesque ignorance on the part of the reporter and editors. The Pope restates the longstanding orthodox position, and idiot media people, apparently thinking that all Christians are short earth creationists, are astonished.
Unless you forgot the /sarc tag, it is you who needs the remedial scriptural education
The following is the money quote:
God “created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.”
IOW we are responsible for our own lives -- God gave us Free Will. To pray for something to make our life easier is positing God as Merlin Writ Large.
The Pontiff nailed this one perfectly.
I am pretty sure that we shouldn’t take too much comfort in God’s more subtle and seemingly hands off approach to these last two thousand years. The seals will be opened and I wouldn’t want to be the guy who acted as the last straw.
More anti-Catholicism — I know if you were to respond to all the anti-RCC threads you would not have time for anything else but I do want you to have the chance to have look-see.
Why so many so-called Christians here at FR decry The Church makes no sense to me. Perhaps the idea that Jesus founded His Church and it wasn’t “buffet” theology and it is the only True Church that can trace its lineage to Him is a sore point...?
Pope Francis is simply using the logic of Bible Believing apologist William Lane Craig who accurately points out that God’s ‘days’ which predate the existence of the Earth and the Sun are in fact different from our ‘days.’
Given the comments of FReepers on this and similar threads...you'd think we were.
The author is a putz. Galileo was never ex-communicated. Copernicus, a Catholic Priest, developed heliocentricity and was never disciplined for it at all by the Church. Journalism sucks.
Since when do FReepers believe Salon with thier cherry-picked quotes? If you want to have Protestant-Catholic doctrine debate, please create your own site and then have at it. The grown ups at FR, the sane Catholics and Protestants, want to discuss the issues that are relavent to Jim Robinson’s purpose for creating this site.
I assume he wasn’t speaking ex cathedra...
I’m telling you....he has dementia.
He’s starting to remind me of the gardener in Being There.
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