Posted on 04/20/2016 7:27:09 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
We should only look to Jesus for Heaven, Pope Francis said during a recent mass.
The pontiff made his comments Monday while speaking from Casa Santa Marta at the Vatican, saying that only through Jesus can people go to heaven
"The Lord thus clearly says: you cannot enter eternal life by any entryway that is not the door – that is not Jesus," the pontiff said. "He is the door of our life – and not only of eternal life, but also of our daily lives."
The pope added that he who attempts to reach heaven by an alternative way to Jesus "is a thief and a robber."
"He who does not enter the sheepfold by the door," but rather goes a different way, "is a thief and a robber," the pope said, noting that "there is no other" route.
"Jesus shows the way forward: there is no other who can show the way," Francis said.
"Any decision I take, I take either in the name of Jesus, passing by way of the door of Jesus, or I take it a little – shall we say in simple language – through the smuggler's hatch [It. contrabbando]? We enter the enclosure through the door, which is Jesus," the pope stated.
The pope also stressed the importance of Jesus and eternity in a February 2015 homily, saying that all humans have a hunger that can only be satisfied through a relationship with Jesus Christ, who he described as the "bread of life."
"We all have this hunger […] It is the hunger for life - the hunger for eternity - that only He can satisfy because He is the bread of life" he said.
Along with looking to Jesus for eternal salvation, the Pope also spoke on the importance of the church in one's faith.
Francis said during a mass in May 2014 that God meant for us to live in a Christian community, rather than be isolated.
"Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without this, we are not Christians. We entered the Church through baptism: there we are Christians," the pope said. "A Christian without a church is something purely idealistic, it is not real."
"Jesus Christ did not fall from the sky like a superhero who comes to save us. No. Jesus Christ has a history. And we can say, and it is true, that God has a history because He wanted to walk with us. And you cannot understand Jesus Christ without His history. So a Christian without history, without a Christian nation, a Christian without the Church is incomprehensible. It is a thing of the laboratory, an artificial thing, a thing that cannot give life," Francis added.
The pontiff added at the time that just as it is difficult for Jesus Christ to be understood alone without the Christian religion, so it is equally difficult to understand a Christian alone without also taking into account the Church and their Christian brothers and sisters.
That analogy is only applicable if the “broken calendar” is “saying” the same thing every day, but it is only true once a year. The opposite would hold if someone only says something once a year, which is true every day.
You can’t deny it or won’t deny it so you avoid the discussion. Face it catholicism is in error on this. I know that’s hard to accept. It’s why the catholic has to engage in verbal gymnastics on these issues.
If you truly extend an amen to all that is in that article, well, may God have mercy upon such a soul.
I have better things to do. I'm going out to prune my goji plants. And if any of the dang kudzu has made its appearance over the backyard fence: war to the death! Uukhai! :o)
May God have mercy on us all, MHGinTN.
Heavens no. The pope has said so many wrong things lately I was surprised he got this right.
July 16.
I don’t understand your reference. July 16?
This pope’s own homilies show he does not know what salvation is or how it happens. His comments regarding being baptized and that puts one in the church where they are then a Christian in a community tells us what the catholic apologists at FR keep repeating without comprehension. Catholics believe they have salvation through fealty to a sacramental trail. The Vatican tells them that the Catholic Church is the sheepfold and only by being catholic are they going to eventually obtain Heaven. Of course that means purgatory at the end of the average catholic life, and then eventually heaven. And that is anathema to what JESUS and the APOSTLES taught and the Bible illustrates with the day of Pentecost and the house of Cornelius ...
Today is Nisan 14 on the Jewish calendar. It is the day of the Passover Jesus celebrated the night before His sacrifice on the Cross for us and for our salvation. Tomorrow is the date of His crucifixion. Today, this evening, is the time to practice a bread and wine REMEMBRANCE of His work on our behalf, as He instructed we do and the believers in Asia Minor did until Rome established a Sunday observance so that it corresponded to a pagan celebration, to mollify the Roman power structure under which Anicetus lived.
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>> “Today is Nisan 14 on the Jewish calendar.” <<
It will become Nissan 14 at sunset.
Yehova does not honor pagan Roman days that begin at midnight.
Go play gotcha somewhere else, Roodian.
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No gotcha, just pointing out the difference in how Yehova tallies his days.
And you are absolutely correct. God is not following a Roman emperor’s calendar. It is on Nisan 14 that Jesus went to the Cross for us and for our salvation. He was on that Cross at the same time the lambs were being slaughtered by the Hebrew Priests for the people. I was a High Holy Day determined by the Moon phases, not the names of days, thus it could have been on a Roman Thursday or even a Friday ... I’m sure you know which day it actually happened, but I’ll bet very few reading these threads know that there were TWO Sabbaths that week.
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Quite correct, two Sabbaths, the “high” Sabbath of Passover, and the regular Sabbath, separated by one regular “preparation” day as per Luke (who was most likely writing Peter’s telling of events to him some time later).
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