Posted on 10/03/2016 1:58:26 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
So, according to some here...in God’s eyes there are some who have sinned so badly that they are beyond Salvation. That to minister to those people and bring God’s love to them is in itself a sin.
I wonder who those people are worshipping...Jesus Christ made it clear that ALL are welcome to join Him. So many who like to think of themse,vessels as Christian seem lost when it comes to Christianity. Jesus Christ welcomes and commands us to love each individual...even our enemies. Haven’t read that part of the Bible where we are to exclude, oppress, or marginalize certain individuals.
Clams?
Pope is a dope.
he’s also an A-Hole
This ‘pope’ is the worst.
He praises and glorifies sin while condemning the faithful. What is the point of being Catholic?
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Pope Francis is to Catholicism as Obama is to America.
Pretender would be more accurate. These folks will be nothing more than pretenders.
Jesus surely doesn’t tell them ‘go away because you are homosexual.’”
She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more
He then joked: “Please don’t write that the pope will sanctify transsexuals. I can see the front pages of papers now. But no, it is a moral question. It is a human question, and it must be resolved as best as possible, always with the mercy of God, the truth ... always with an open heart.”
Source: http://www.westfargopioneer.com/sports/4127852-pope-says-jesus-wont-kick-gays-out-heaven
I’m betting that once again, when the entire presser is read in context it becomes clear that he’s taken out of context and that it’s also clear His Holiness should not be giving impromptu press conferences.
I’m personally tired of reminding adults that the secular media has an agenda, and that Pope Francis seems blissfully unaware of this fact, two factors combining together often to cause a perfect firestorm among this who hate him and all the Church is about today, from both the right and the left. Religiously and politically.
A final message to all Catholics: criticize him justly for his apparent lack of media acumen, but try and remember he’s the Pope. And should be accorded the respect he’s thus due.
Looks like the gay mafia the previous pope fought and got the boot over is having its way with this guy.
I’m afraid he’s tipping his hand on where the Church is headed.
They are desperate to re-engage Millenials. I’m afraid they’re about to take a sharp left turn in an attempt to do this.
In days long gone the Cardinals would take matters into their own hands.
I’ve been going to services at a Reformed Presbyterian church recently. It’s such a pleasant contrast with the ridiculous progressive church I grew up in.
Tagging every poster on this thread who I propose didn’t read the entire article and what the Pope actually said. From your responses, you read the headline, the bolded text, and then went forth and posted your comment without looking into what he actually said.
As FourtySeven rightly pointed out slightly above this post, Jesus did not come to call the righteous to Heaven, but sinners. The Pope should, and is, ministering to the poor in spirit, aka sinners. There is nothing in his words that says he is condoning, in fact he called out gender theory as wicked. He rightly says that this is a “human problem”, not of God, and that only God’s mercy will change them.
If you are unwilling to accept a sinner into your midst, you are not following the tenet of Christianity and might as well be a Jew from Jesus’ time. How fitting Luke 10:25-37 is the Gospel reading for today, are you the Priest or the Levite? How about being the Samaritan?
He said nothing of the sort, your logic is one of the worst posts on this thread.
Trying to change the sinner is not standing up to “secular winds”?? I suppose you want to be like the young priest he admonished and screams from across the street “You will go to hell”.
Yea, that’s the way to convert them, with hate... /sarcasm
And crazy
You do realize there was no old priest nor young priest. This parable was a false dichotomy typical of Jesuits. A straw man in parable form.
One can be both compassionate and devoted to Truth.
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