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 Gods creatures, the pontiff said, according to Italian news sources.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.com ...
I was being sarcastic, and illustrating a common FR Catholic tactic of trying to switch the subject.
Sounds like the Italian ‘papers’ are just as screwed up as OURS!
Thanks.
Helps me greatly. . .
Here is a further table regarding the localization of the unhappy places (neglecting the grave, and recognizing that Paradise/Abraham's Bosom are supposed to have been joined to the third (God's) Heaven:
" The Chart of the Abyss, Hell, and the Lake of Fire Contrasred"
CHART OF THE ABYSS, HELL, AND THE LAKE OF FIRE CONTRASTED |
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THE ABYSS (THE DEEP |
Háhihdays |
THE LAKE OF FIRE |
1. Existence 1st stated: |
(Gen. 1:2 LXX) |
(Job 33:18) |
(Rev. 19:20) |
2. Duration: |
Not known after the Millennium |
Ceases to exist |
Endless |
3. Location: |
Deep Outer Space |
Heart of Earth |
Outside of Earth |
4. Time of Existence: |
Until End of Millennium |
Until Judgment |
After Judgment |
5. At the Time of the |
No longer mentioned |
Cast into Lake of Fire |
Ongoing Forever |
6. Occupants: |
Fallen (wicked) angels (Lk. 8:31; |
Faithless departed spirits |
The Beast (Anti-god) and the |
Here is a link to one diagram illustrating the pit, Paradise, and the grave. The site contains the text giving a verbal key to this diagram:
Nice site. Thanks.
I’ve seen Wittman’s chart re: kingdom of heaven vs kingdom of God. I used it as guidance for a few years, but then found some differing perspectives, also well documented in Scripture. I need to give that one some more study.
“...all dogs do go to heaven...”
Sure hope so. I miss all of my old mutts... every one one of them.
Evidently the whole story has been misattribution of things nobody ever said but somebody wishes they did. It’s really pretty funny.
We have a friar here, Fr. Scordo, who was a Navy chaplain for 20 years. And he is one of the funniest guys I know. He loves a joke. And I can’t help thinking that PapaFran is a little like that. At the end of the day he sits, in my imagination, with his feet up surfing the net to find out what they’re saying he said — but he never said it — today. And then he laughs with his friends.
So true!
But our world today never worries about yelling FIRE!!! in a crowed theater.
"It may not be true; but it's accurate." is the phrase that is uppermost.
Despite our differences, I'm sure we share trying to find ways to explain to unbelievers how important the “fact” of the Incarnation is. A friend whom God is slowly, slowly drawing to his bosom asked if we would ever forgive Pilate. This was because the creeds mention that IHS was “crucified under Pontius Pilate.”
I tried to explain that it's not about blaming Pilate. I am at least as responsible as he for the crucifixion. It's about the fact that it happened! Really happened. Pilate was procurator of Judea. We can give the actual even a real range of possible dates.
It's not at all a matter of “fake but accurate,” but of “true and TRUE!”
And on some particular date a child was born “as at this time for us,” who was also God. Not like Vishnu or Osiris, whose stories happen out of time, but when Octavian was Caesar in Rome and Herod was King in Judea.
When they turn their backs on even the possibility of a sweating and bleeding Jesus, soon they find no value in facts at all.
From which may we be protected by the Lord of Love.
AMEN!
“Evidently the whole story has been misattribution of things nobody ever said but somebody wishes they did. Its really pretty funny.”
Dogs go to heaven? Don’t believe it
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/14/opinion/schlumpf-pope-dogs-go-to-heaven-controversy/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
So Francis never said it and here I thought I finally agreed with the Pope on something.
He is and out and out Communist/Socialist if the story below is true:
Pope Francis: Capitalism is a new tyranny
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/26/pope_francis_capitalism_is_a_new_tyranny/
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