Posted on 05/25/2024 9:48:21 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Pope Francis is under fire after claiming that human beings are “fundamentally good” in a recent interview with 60 Minutes host Norah O’ Donnell. “We are all fundamentally good,” he said. “Yes, there are some rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good.”
Evangelical leaders have pointed out that the pontiff’s statements are contrary to the teaching of original sin, one of Christianity’s basic doctrines. “If this is true, we don’t need a Savior to die on the Cross,” wrote Eric Metaxas, best-selling author and national radio host.
Alluding to the pope’s statements in light of the 24/7 news cycle, Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber posted on X: “The remainder of the content of this news program and all the other programming on your TV suggests otherwise. And certainly Jesus taught to the contrary.”
Allie Beth Stuckey, conservative Christian author and podcast host, pointed out that the Bible refutes Pope Francis’ claims that humanity is inherently good. She quoted Mark 10:18—“No one is good except God alone”—and Jeremiah 17:9—“The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick”—among other verses. “This is core to Christianity,” Stuckey wrote. “Because if everyone is basically good, the Gospel is not good news. If the Gospel is not good news, what’s the point?”
Some X users also noted that Pope Francis’ statement echoed Pelagianism, a heresy spread by 5th century monk Pelagius and his followers. They denied original sin and taught that human beings are completely free to choose between good and evil.
Franklin Graham speaks out regularly on sin—and how it is the root cause of every problem in our world. “There is no place in the human heart or on the Earth where sin hasn’t wrought its deadly work,” he writes. “Sin brought death, both physical and spiritual, to the entire human race. When you took your first breath, outside your mother’s womb, you were already a sinner, alienated and separated from a holy God.”
But the Good News of the Gospel is that sin does not need to have the last word. As Franklin pointed out last week at the U.S. Capitol, during the unveiling of his father’s statue: “God so loved this world that He sent His Son on a rescue mission to save sinners. He didn’t come to condemn; He came to save. And if we would confess our sins and repent and believe on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we can be saved.”
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:15
You adulterous people![a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4
In the beginning God created, and image of God he created man. Cf. Gen 1:27 And it was very good. Gen 1:31.
Further, just because fallen nature resides in man his heart is still made by God and therefoee good.
Just confirming what our belief is. I’m not gonna get in a doctrinal debate. You can do your own research by reading the early fathers of the church.
“You can do your own research by reading the early fathers of the church.”
I’ll stick to reading the Bible.
Not only do the pope’s comments contradict the doctrine of original sin, they contradict a central message of the teaching of Jesus and the apostles, i.e., that the road to perdition is a broad path, but to attain salvation we must pass through a narrow gate. This is stated in various ways by Jesus, Paul, James, and others.
ANTI pope. NOT the Pope. Never has been, never will be. People need to stop referring to this evil incarnate as Pope. Never legitimise the illegitimate.
You can hear it here:
Integrity: Don’t Leave Home Without It | Part 1
Integrity: Don’t Leave Home Without It | Part 2
If you like him, BBN radio broadcasts his sermons M-F at 9:30 AM.
Bergoglio should stick to what he knows best, homosexual orgies in the Vatican. /spit
Who said “Why do you call me good?”
It would seem that God disagrees with you about the effects of the fall into sin:
Genesis 6:5 (among many others)
Nope.
No he doesn’t, the passage is inclination to sin. Total depravety is not a Catholic Doctrine.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/depravity-yes-total-depravity-no-way
Calvanist Doctrine is not Catholic Doctrine.
I’m not a Calvinist. “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is none righteous, no not one.”
Sigh, see my #33.
Total depravety is not a Catholic Doctrine.
I believe the Bible, not Catholic doctrine.
I see, we’ll the Pope is Catholic here, so if you don’t like Catholic teaching I suggest you give up the Bible itself, since it is a Catholic Book.
Yeah, but now your CEO is furthering Satan’s agenda, and your next level down, the cardinals, knew all about him and gleefully put him there.
There are literally thousands of Bible believing, True Christian churches that will gladly accept you and your families, if only you surrender to the One True God.
I am praying for Catholics everywhere. For those that want to do the right thing, Jesus is waiting for you with open arms.
He’s not a Calavanist. Catholics Reject the Doctrine of Total Depravity.
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