Posted on 09/02/2016 8:44:44 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Pope Francis is imploring Catholics to confess their sins against the environment, calling the degradation of the climate a “sin against God.”
In his message marking the World day of Prayer for the Care of Creation on Thursday, the pontiff said climate change is caused in part by human activity, leads to extreme weather and disproportionately affects the least advantaged around the world.
He added that “to commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God.
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You don’t get it. Abortion is the summum malum.
(Actually it is quite a hideous thing, but yet in some ways symptomatic of even worse evils of the soul. As the Lord put it, do not fear those who kill the body.)
This is the crux of my 13 year old wanting to leave the church. In school he us being taught that works are your key to heaven, he speaks up and says no, faith is the key. He also asks why he has to call a priest Father when His is the ibky father. He says that rapture is a good thing his teachers and classmates disagree. He asks why Revelations isn’t discussed while we are living in them. He said at age 18 he will leave the Catholic Church.
If indeed it is not a thing that “happens” integrally as a result of believing the call of Christ (as of Protestant beliefs I disagree with that as particularized to Roman Catholic, but still could understand the belief), but some earthly act of affiliation to an earthly organization... good point. I have to ask this particular earthly denomination to count me in, in order to make me right with God. Rather than not caring whether or not they do, so long as I care about what Christ wants.
“Agh, he fell in with some fundies!”
WTF are you talking about?
A slight irony there.
It appears that Soros’ check has cleared.
I’m a miserable sinner who is a practicing Catholic with a fairly good understanding of the Catholic faith. Christ’s death and resurrection opened the gates of Paradise to every human being...potentially. So, now that the gates of Paradise are open, how does anyone get that hand-stamp to get admitted? Well, if faith in Jesus Christ gets you the hand stamp, then do all Christians who believe in Jesus get into Heaven, regardless of the sins they commit, even if they are not sorry for their sins? What about Jews who love God, but we’re taught that Jesus was a; fraud? Have they no hope for Heaven? It is very complicated. I believe that Catholicism teaches that Jesus opened the gates of Paradise; that God grants to everyone in the world the grace sufficient to be saved; that we as humans cannot know how faith and works act to enable us to accept the grace we need to accept to be saved.
I’m a miserable sinner who is a practicing Catholic with a fairly good understanding of the Catholic faith. Christ’s death and resurrection opened the gates of Paradise to every human being...potentially. So, now that the gates of Paradise are open, how does anyone get that hand-stamp to get admitted? Well, if faith in Jesus Christ gets you the hand stamp, then do all Christians who believe in Jesus get into Heaven, regardless of the sins they commit, even if they are not sorry for their sins? What about Jews who love God, but we’re taught that Jesus was a; fraud? Have they no hope for Heaven? It is very complicated. I believe that Catholicism teaches that Jesus opened the gates of Paradise; that God grants to everyone in the world the grace sufficient to be saved; that we as humans cannot know how faith and works act to enable us to accept the grace we need to accept to be saved.
By a pope. Of which an entire church depends on him being right for eternal life and death issues.
Maybe there was something to what the reformers were saying...............
Luther and other classic Protestants insisted salvation began with faith, and that works bloomed from it.
It has to do with motivations, the inner springs of what we do.
People WILL do works of some kind or another. To not do that is not to be lazy — it is to be dead, as in pushing up daisies.
It is the beliefs that underpin the works which are the question here.
Here is the question you ask these climate believers, explain how when the dinosaurs roamed the earth the CO2 in the atmosphere was 15% higher than now and we global warming then. How did the atmosphere discharge this excess CO2 to gt to where we are now???????????????
The pope Is a liberal moron. Listening to him is a sin since he goes against the Bible.
Lying through deliberate misrepresentation is a sin, too.
Nice non-sequitur. Carbon is life. Reduce carbon dioxide, and plants die. Reduce plant life, and animals die.
Some observations:
* The best evidence from serious science, estimates the age of earth at 4,534,000,000 years (that’s billion).
* Cyclicality and change in Nature includes climate, decay and growth patterns.
* Pope Frankie is infallible when speaking on Faith and Morals; Ex-Cathedra; everything else is his opinion.
* After 4 years of blathering about anything and everything that passes through his head, it should be apparent that he doesn’t know his ass from this elbow about the science of climate change.
The Doctrine of Infallibility occurs only when the matter is Faith and Morals and when the Pontiff speaks Ex-Cathedra; i.e. From his Chair.
Or that crimes against nature are not sins, and to call them sins cheapens the term.
When was the last time this pope talked about the good news of Jesus?
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