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To: BlessedBeGod
You guys are being a little rough on Frank...Frank has some things pretty messed up but he still a ways ahead of the rest of the Catholics...Here's part of one of the links referred to in your post:

The entire text of Francis’ reflection on the Last Judgment is available in Italian here, but the Vatican web site does not offer the full text in English translation. Nevertheless, this link here seems to have most of the catechesis in English. We will quote a few salient parts:

Do not be afraid of the final judgment of God, when the good will be separated from the bad, because Jesus will always be at our side, because we can rely on the intercession and the benevolence of the saints and because God “did not send his Son to condemn, but to save” and “he who believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is already condemned,” and in this sense “the judgment has already begun”.

Frank is quoting some scripture here...Some truth that all of you Catholics ignore...So your pope's latched on to a little bit of Truth, but he doesn't really know what to do with it...That verse Frank is quoting and many others say the judgement for the Christian is already over, not, that the judgment is begun...

“I believe in eternal life” was the passage from the Creed chosen by the Pope, focusing on the final judgment. “But – he immediately said – do not be afraid.” “When we think of the return of Christ and his final judgment, which will reveal even to its furthest consequences the good each person has done or failed to do during their earthly life, we perceive that we are faced with a mystery that hangs over us that we can not even imagine. A mystery that almost instinctively arouses in us a sense of awe, and perhaps even trepidation. However, if we think carefully about this fact, it can only swell the heart of a Christian and be a great reason of comfort and confidence.”

Firstly, because the Christian revelation ends, in the Apocalypse, with “the embrace of Jesus, who is the fullness of life, the fullness of love. So we embrace Jesus! If we think of the judgment in this perspective, all fear and doubt vanishes and leaves a deep joy and expectation. It will be the time when we will be judged finally ready to be clothed with the glory of Christ, like a wedding garment, and be conducted to the banquet, an image of full and definitive communion with God”.

Poor Frank...While he stumbled across a scripture that confirms and guarantees that Christians are saved NOW, he goes on to be lost in the sea of scripture that only a Christian can decypher...

Frank and the rest are not going to make it to the banquet after that final judgment...

That wedding banquet for the Bride and Groom takes place a thousand years before Frank's final judgement takes place...

67 posted on 04/08/2017 11:02:25 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool

Selah! Here is wisdom, as usual with your posts.


72 posted on 04/08/2017 11:49:40 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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