Posted on 03/29/2018 7:40:27 AM PDT by NRx
[Scalfari:] Your Holiness, in our previous meeting you told me that our species will disappear in a certain moment and that God, still out of his creative force, will create new species. You have never spoken to me about the souls who died in sin and will go to hell to suffer it for eternity. You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God. But what about bad souls? Where are they punished?
[Francis:] "They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls."
Oh?
And what evidence will you bring before the court?
>> Yet look at the title of this thread.<<
And let's not forget the seemingly endless threads posted by ebb railing against the pope. I daresay if a non-Roman Catholic were to post those what would the push back be?
More accusations of Catholic bashing??
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3643374/posts?page=39#39
There are some who say he is a false pope and Peter of Rome will the next pope after Benedict. Part of the reasoning is that popes cannot resign, as Benedict did. The real pope, Peter of Rome, will lead the church through Tribulation, according to some.
A friend thinks Francis may be Peter of Rome because it fits the idea of Alpha and Omega, the first and the last both being Peter (one called Peter by Jesus and the other called Peter by Malachy).
Actually, Pope Francis is less theologically reliable than almost any seminarian in any Catholic seminary in the world. IMHO.
And that's why Sola Scriptura is such an essential doctrine.
Did he? The “journalist” in question has admitted to essentially making things up before that the pope never said:
A real break for this 71 year old
Nope. Sola Scriptura is un-Biblical.
I wholeheartedly agree with that verse, and Bergoglio will answer to Christ at his Particular Judgment for the chaos and confusion that he’s sown.
Given that there have been numerous Christians of all denominations throughout the ages, of all stripes, who failed to live up to that exhortation, what’s your argument?
Given that the Bible didn’t exist in its canonical form until centuries after the death of Christ (and even then, most Protestant Bibles nowadays lack certain books that were present throughout Christendom for over a milennium), how would Sola Scriptura work out logistically amongst the illiterate and those whose only access to the Word of God was through the teaching of others?
"Vatican spokespersons have dismissed the texts of Scalfari as unofficial. In 2014, Fr. Federico Lombardi, past papal spokesperson, told CNA that “if there are no words published by the Holy See press office and not officially confirmed, the writer takes full responsibility for what he has written.”"Pope Francis has previously spoken about the existence of hell in public speeches, including at a prayer vigil in March 2014.
"There he gave an address in which he said that members of the mafia should change their lives, “while there is still time, so that you do not end up in hell. That is what awaits you if you continue on this path.”
Given that the cannoncical bible existed from the moment it was written i’d Say you don’t have a clue what you are talking about.
As are popes.
Then how come Martin Luther removed various books from his German translation that would go on to become the standard for Protestant Bibles? Was the Holy Spirit asleep at the wheel for all those years while those books were in there? Who gave him the authority to do so?
Should we have included the various other Gospels and Epistles that were floating around the Roman world at the time of the Apostles and their immediate successors and disciples? If not, who made the judgment call?
Clement’s First Epistle to the Corinthians was treated as canonical by many segments of Christianity up through the 5th century, but it’s not anymore. Similarly with the Didache. Why is that?
On whose authority was the Canon decided?
He is not bizarre. He is a Liberation Theologist, Communist with a capital C. This is what they picked him for, to end the Catholic Church as we have always known it.
Perhaps Francis is the AntiChrist or its presage.
Sorry I confused folks.
I failed to indicate just WHICH thread it was from.
I did not mean this one...
Do you think GOD hears the prayers of your pope?
Please; which is it?
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