What about ME??
The bible CLEARLY says...
Posted on 12/12/2014 4:16:12 PM PST by FR_addict
We've all heard the expression "all dogs go to heaven." On Wednesday, the spiritual leader of 1.2 billion people around the world gave it his imprimatur.
During his weekly address in the Vatican on Wednesday, Pope Francis was consoling a little boy who had recently lost his dog, assuring the boy that he and his furry friend would reunite in heaven.
“One day, we will see our animals again in the eternity of Christ. Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures,” the pontiff said, according to Italian news sources.
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My thoughts also.
Please, do not even joke about that! I do not want you there. See tag.
And just what/who is your god?
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. (Romans 12:19)
Is that just the dogs we love, or all dead dogs thru-out history??? And squirrels??? And skunks??? And all those buffalo which were killed a century and a half ago???
Dinosaurs, so many birds you won't be able to see in front of you...And just think of all the resurrected mosquitoes...
Bible??? What's the bible got to do with Catholic theology??? Their theology is philosophy (man's half-baked logic)...
Dogs? Cats? Pigs? Chickens? Defenseless?
Clearly you weren't raised on a farm.
No. They'll be in hell where they're increase the eternal torment.
Which requires defining sin and culpability, and the consequence of it. An interesting theological question to be reasoned out. To sin does not require "eating the apple" (though Gn. 3 does not say what kind of fruit it was), as angels sinned before that. But the point is that animals do not have inherited sin (not that i see infants culpable of this), which at length leads to the certitude of actual sin in the morally culpable.
But as being under the curse, the wolf and the lamb do not feed together well, and while "sin is the transgression of the law," (1Jn. 3:4) that applies toward those who are under the law.
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. (Romans 3:19)
While the Law was given to men, yet dogs are under the law of their master who indirectly enforces aspects of that law and which dogs can break. But they would not be culpable of actual sin unless they could choose otherwise. Yet i think dogs (whom i have found memories of) can seem to express guilt over doing what they know was wrong, and may face punishment by them.
So in principle we may say a dog can do wrong, but not having a God consciousness (worship is an activity peculiar to man), even repressed as with many man, then they were never guilty of disobedience to Him and facing judgment accordingly. Nor are they treated as having eternal spirits, or mentioned in teaching on the resurrection and being rewarded.
Thus while dogs may be culpable to their masters for choosing to do wrong, they face no eternal punishment, and while animals do not now evidence a God consciousness, and are not mentioned as spirits going to Heaven as with man upon death, or being in the bodily resurrection, yet all creation will one day praise the Lord, and with God all things are possible, if not being contrary to His word.
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. (Revelation 5:13)
Miracles do happen.
It’s a metaphor.
Sorry about that...just got a little defensive about my beloved animals.
Disney said it first!
You actually DISagree with the current pope on certain things??
Dang; are you folks SMARTER than the POPE?
Do you WANT to be the POPE?
It appears like you can really BE your own pope!!!
What about ME??
The bible CLEARLY says...
WHY are you saying that GOD can’t do that?
Like that meeting we'll ALL have with St. Peter at the Pearly Gates!
Ecclesiastes 10:2
A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left.
I’ll go with Balaam’s judgment on this one!
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