Posted on 05/12/2015 12:17:08 PM PDT by Gamecock
Pope Francis warned the rich and powerful on Tuesday that God will judge them on whether they fed the poor and cared for the Earth
"We must do what we can so that everyone has something to eat. But we must also remind the powerful of the Earth that God will call them to judgment one day," he said. "And there it will be revealed if they really tried to provide for him in every person, and if they did what they could to preserve the environment so that it could produce this food."
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“Pope: God will judge you on whether you cared for Earth”
Where in the Scriptures does it say this??
Where is that any where in what he said or was reported?
He has been one of the view voices speaking up for persecuted Christians, especially from ISIS.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32179180
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pope-francis-christians-middle-east-iraq-syria-524199
Catholics don’t need no scripture!
This ass doesn’t quit amazing me with his liberal BS.He sucks big time.
Where are you reading anything about govts controlling people?
Show me in the Bible where it says to not feed the poor, or to destroy the earth.
Maybe you should read the Bible. Do you have one?
(“Pope: God will judge you on whether you cared for Earth”]
Jesus desires laborers for lost souls, because the harvest is ripe and the workers are few. Eternity is forever. There will be a new heaven and a new earth.
Luke 10:2
He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
Isaiah 65:17
“See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
BRAVO! Well said!
Charity is a moral act. It requires voluntary sacrifice on the part of the giver. The receiver is morally indebted, knowing that someone else chose to go without for his own in order to help the receiver to go with. The giver is exercising mercy and kindness.
When government usurps the duty of charity, it removes "voluntary" and degree of sacrifice, mercy, and kindness, and converts it to an AMORAL act, zero reference to morality. AMORALITY and all its evil results. Givers become slaves, and receivers become entitled dependents supported in sloth and promiscuity without material consequence.
For charity to operate as God intended, it must always be a MORAL act. Government necessarily removes its morality.
Yet "conservatives" such as Huckabee and Santorum, who appeal to the sect of "conservatives" for whom the word can only be called code for "Christian," advocate government roles in charity. I understand why -- they are Christian, as am I, but they seek to use government to advance Christian morality. I wish instead they defined "conservative" as "with restraint," under "use of government." Use it sparingly. Conservatively.
If the Pope says moral roles include "caring for the Earth," heaven help us as to how far code-Christian "conservatives" would use government to carry out that duty.
It’s getting to the point where the Church, should be taxed as a political organization.
That's an obligation based on a God-given moral principle that cannot be renounced.
Second: any pronouncement that depends on "climate science," geophysical hypotheses, and political policy preferences, however, are outside of the pope's competence and outside of the scope of the Church's Magisterium.
I've got a feeling I'm going to have to repeat this on a regular basis from here on in.
Eh, in pressing people to respond to phony man made global warming
From under what rock are you posting?
Feed the poor, yes. (I meant to strike that from my reply, by the way. That’s a clear commandment).
But your straw man argument that to disagree with Holy Father Karl Marx that “GOD will judge for not caring for the earth” is somehow the same as “destroying the earth” is a laughable joke. (As if it were even POSSIBLE for man to destroy the earth.)
God’s infallible WORD does warn against worshipping the creation rather than the creature. But Po-po is all over worshipping creation, so he (and you) must have missed that in Romans 1. Et al.
Has the pope been talking to bill nye the pretend science guy?
Let’s start here: Genesis 1:9-13
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
The Earth is good, and belongs to God. We have been given dominion over it, and are stewards. As such, we must conserve. We will be called to account for ALL of the gifts God has given us and how we used them.
You would do well to re-read Matthew 35:31-46 where Jesus speaks specifically about judgement and feeding the poor.
>> God WILL judge people who did not do what they could to protect air, water and soil from harm
“And [Moses] lifted up the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood. 21The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.”
Did the quotation say one thing about global warming? No.
The Pope has called for scientists and people with different points of view to discuss an issue. Jesuits are very studious, and this is consistent with looking at an issue and discussing it.
Since neither the event, not the document have occurred/been written, there isn’t much to say.
While he may think there is such a thing a global warming, etc., all he has done is reminded people to be good stewards of the Earth and to feed the poor.
The Pope is a Socialist and is coming after our money.
We do more now to protect the environment that generations before us.
“The Pope is a Socialist and is coming after our money.”
In other words... is the pope catholic? Yep.
Yeah? Where are you judged for not taking care of the earth? Feeding the poor is certainly does not qualify under that either.
Now if we could only hear him say such strong, unequivocal words for those who commit sodomy and and adultery.
But then again we have to remember that this is a man who thinks the most serious of evils are youth unemployment and loneliness of the old.
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