Posted on 09/26/2015 11:31:49 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The greatly heralded Pope Francis, beneficiary of 24 hour news coverage from all news networks, has once again given us insight into his inner self in a sermon at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York City (Transcript of Sermon) . After starting the service, Pope Francis gave a heart warming shout-out to his "religion of peace", “Muslim brothers and sisters” when he said this:
“I would like to express two sentiments for my Muslim brothers and sisters: Firstly, my greetings as they celebrate the feast of sacrifice.”
The Pope clearly understands that for the last 1400 years, Islam has held that Christians and Jews are not brothers and sisters, but rather infidels worthy of death. Islam's god, Allah, states in Surah 19 of the Koran that he has no son. To say so is blasphemy against Allah and his prophet, Mohammed. However, despite what Muslims believe, the Chrislamic Pope Francis has demanded that the Christian nations in Europe and America receive all Muslim "al hijrah" immigrants, while the Vatican has the strictest immigration policy on earth. Perhaps the syncretic Pope believes that by paying obeisance to Islam he can bring the irrational religion under his cognitive dissonant sphere of influence? His later words in the sermon seem to dignify the Islamic view of Jesus' failure on the cross when he stated:
"And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and not produce fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus Christ and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross.
The Bible foretells in Revelation 13 that in the last days before the return of Jesus, an international religious figure will rise on the scene. The religious figure will look like a self-sacrificing, philanthropist. A real lover of man and the earth! He will appear harmless as a lamb, but when he speaks, he speaks like a ravenous dragon. He may feign faith in Christ, but in reality will direct everyone to worship another political figure who will be promoted to help solve the world's problems. Somehow this religious figure is so intertwined with politics and the economic system, he is able to promote a new worldwide economic order where all must have the the political figure's mark on their person in order to purchase, and to show loyalty to the "new world system". The Bible is also clear that whoever receives this "mark" will be damned to hell, with no hope of redemption.
I am not sure if Pope Francis IS this religious figure. If not, he is certainly a wonderful forerunner. Every time he opens his mouth, he continues his foray into the world political and economic orders and his consistent promotion of homosexuality, Allah as God of the Bible, and Marxism/Socialism betraying his "inner dragon"...
Victory in Jesus, by Eugene Monroe Bartlett, Sr.
I heard an old, old story
How a Savior came from glory
How He gave His life on Calvary
To save a wretch like me
I heard about His groaning
Of His precious blood's atoning
Then I repented of my sins
And won the victory
O victory in Jesus
My Savior, forever
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood
He loved me ere I knew Him
And all my love is due Him
He plunged me to victory
Beneath the cleansing flood
I heard about His healing
Of His cleansing pow'r revealing
How He made the lame to walk again
And caused the blind to see
And then I cried, "Dear Jesus
Come and heal my broken spirit,"
And somehow Jesus came and brought
To me the victory
O victory in Jesus
My Savior, forever
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood
He loved me ere I knew Him
And all my love is due Him
He plunged me to victory
Beneath the cleansing flood
I heard about a mansion
He has built for me in glory
And I heard about the streets of gold
Beyond the crystal sea
About the angels singing
And the old redemption story
And some sweet day I'll sing up there
The song of victory
O victory in Jesus
My Savior, forever
He sought me and bought me
With His redeeming blood
He loved me ere I knew Him
And all my love is due Him
He plunged me to victory
Beneath the cleansing flood!
what an... odd... remark - from the jesuit “Vicar of Christ” no less... O.o
The pope has more water carriers than Hussein.
<—truth.
Indeed the full quote does help. The Pope says "The cross shows us a different way of measuring success." How do you work that sentence into your claim that the Pope thinks the Cross was a failure "and leaves it at that". How can it the Cross be our very measure of success if it's a failure and he "leaves it at that"? Answer: he doesn't.
By the way, here's an article about a less-remarked upon sermon from a few months ago on the same topic. It is, like his comments at St. Patrick's, the most basic, normal, typical, common, standard and old-fashioned Christian teaching on the Theology of the Cross.
It is at the cross that God turns upside down our understanding of failure. Love triumphs at the cross; a place that would otherwise appear to one of defeat. "It is a scandal...but here is where love wins."
However, he also stressed that Christians will fail many times in their own journey, which "is a rough road".
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/the.story.of.salvation.is.a.story.of.failure.but.love.wins.says.pope.francis/55216.htm
There are plenty of things to critique in terms of Pope Francis' words and policies. Have it it. This is not one of them.
The Pope is right, but only on a technicality. Jesus’ death on the cross was a complete 100 percent fulfillment of all prophecy made about his death. It could not have been any other way.
As such, even in human terms, to characterize this as a failure, especially when the POINT was that Jesus HAD TO DIE IN ORDER TO DEFEAT DEATH to show the Universe that He was the Christ by rising from the dead, is so maladroit that all it serves to do is confuse the faithful.
Such statements hardly bring people to Christ. I don’t know, all things redound to God’s will, so maybe this Marxist, Hollywood pope has some higher purpose in God’s plan.
“The only person who ever lived a perfect life is his (pope’s) boss.”
Really? Satan lived a perfect life?
I see what you did there...
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