Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Choosing our End

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 6.21.22 | Bishop Robert Barron

[MurphsLaw]

Memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious

Matthew 7:6, 12-14

Friends, today’s Gospel raises a crucial question about heaven and hell:
Who will be in and who will be out?
Origen argued that all people will be saved.
For how could God’s love allow even one person to be damned?
And St. Augustine argued that
the vast majority of human beings were going to be damned.

Here’s how I approach this issue.
The doctrine concerning hell is a corollary of two more fundamental truths:
that God is love and that we are free.
Love is all that God is.
He’s not loving to some and not to others.
No act of ours can possibly make him stop loving us.

However, we are free.
Hence, we can say yes or we can say no to his love.
If we turn toward it, we open like a sunflower;
if we turn away from it, we get burned.

The very resistance to love causes pain.
Think of a spelunker trapped in a cave for many weeks.
When he emerges into the light of the sun,
he experiences it as a torture.
The same sun that delights someone who is accustomed to it
tortures someone who has been turned from it.

[MurphsLaw]

+++Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces.

“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the Law and the Prophets.

“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.”+++

[ebb tide]

No act of ours can possibly make him stop loving us.

I guess that's why the heretic, Barron, dares hope Hell is empty.

After all, why would God send anyone there if He loves them?

[MurphsLaw]

Can Bonhoeffer be saved?

Yes or No ?

[ebb tide]

Can Judas, Caiaphas, Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, and Kermit Gosnell be saved, Murph?

Two can play you silly game of judging souls.

[MurphsLaw]

Caiphas...maybe...
For the rest I lean No... but God decides those judgements...
Bit on the automatic, the Saints per se...
We all know...
And so Yes, Bonhoeffer- Definitely YES...
HE WILL be greater in Heaven- than either of us...
That I am certain of...
So now...I ask
Do you agree about Bonhoeffer in Heaven?

[ebb tide]

To answer your repetitious question to me, I'll use your own words:

God decides those judgements...

Ask me again, and I'll tell you the same.

[MurphsLaw]

As before..your response is a cowardly one...
You must not believe in Saints in Heaven either...

[ebb tide]

The coward is your pathetic Boobie Barron: He won't even try to convert a Jew to the True Faith.

Bishop Robert Barron Has Misled Ben Shapiro

Barron is not at all following in the footsteps of the Apostles. He's a quisling, just like Bergoglio, Cupich, McElroy, Tobin, Dolan, etc.

[ebb tide]

We all know... And so Yes, Bonhoeffer- Definitely YES... HE WILL be greater in Heaven- than either of us... That I am certain of..

You have just committed the sin of presumption. I'll pray for you.

[ebb tide]

I pray for the intercession of the Church’s Saints daily.

I don’t pray for intercession from dead protestants; but I do pray for their souls.