[Salvation]

Sorry, I should have known that the media would be a couple days late in not reporting the actual article about what the Pope said.

Here is the actual link: http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/05/22/pope_at_mass:_culture_of_encounter_is_the_foundation_of_peace/en1-694445

[Cvengr]

I suspect Pope Francis has been considering recent Muslim violence in his promotion of first performing good, in order to find a meeting place to plant the seed.

It sounds reasonable to a believer as an act of grace.

I don’t believe it equally addresses how degenerate some may have become. A sinner who hasn’t heard the Gospel, but continues to think by worldly perspectives is discernible from a sinner who has also heard and considered the Gospel, rejected Him directly, and continues to degenerate.

The difference in grieving the Holy Spirit and Quenching the Holy Spirit is that God may have allowed the sinner to further degenerate and our attempts to intervene can place us between God and the discipline of our fellow man (not a good place to stand).