Posted on 03/29/2018 3:09:37 PM PDT by broken_arrow1
In another interview with his longtime atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis claims that Hell does not exist and that condemned souls just "disappear." This is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the Catholic Church about the reality of Hell and the eternal existence of the soul.
The interview between Scalfari and the Pope was published March 28, 2018 in La Repubblica. The relevant section on Hell was translated by the highly respected web log, Rorate Caeli.
The interview is headlined, "The Pope: It is an honor to be called revolutionary." (Il Papa: “È un onore essere chiamato rivoluzionario.")
Scalfari says to the Pope, "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?"
Pope Francis says, "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."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
That song just came into my head when I read about the Poop, I mean Pop.
I guess Hitler, Himmler, Stalin (and a few others) all got passes from the fires of eternal damnation after all.
that’s going to totally screw up their marketing message.
Exactly!
From Revelation 14:11
“And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
It’s referring to those who worship the AntiChrist during the soon Tribulation, but apply this along with Revelation 20:11-15 to all who died without Christ or belief in a redemptive Messiah in the OT. It’s hell and it’s FOREVER....
Only Jesus saves! John 14:6
Can we now just make up whatever religion we want? Whatever feels comfortable? How long until the Catholic church hires temple prostitutes?
I guess the pope has never read his bible.
The Soros puppet Pope.
Promotes global warming, illegal aliens and muslims.
Just as Obama did as Soros puppet US ‘president’.
So where do I tell people to go to when they piss me off?
Pope Frank (D), Vatican City is gonna make a lot of Progs very happy.
The pope was quoted. Saying that the pope is a heretic greatly benefits the left. Conclusion, the man who quoted the pope lied.
The brimstone will hit the fan tomorrow, when the Vatican wakes to newspapers screaming that the pope says there’s no hell.
“Can we now just make up whatever religion we want?”
Absolutely not,
Sincerely L Ron Hubbard
A while back I did a search on “conditional immortality” and this answer at GotQuestions.org surprised me (they have seemed pretty staunch on various topics):
“We truly and fully believe that hell will be eternal conscious punishment for all who die without faith in Jesus Christ. However, we believe that conditional immortality is a valid viewpoint that a Christian can hold. In no sense is conditional immortality heresy and in no sense should conditionalists be shunned as not being brothers and sisters in Christ.”
https://www.gotquestions.org/conditional-immortality.html
The good news is that popes are entirely replaceable....this one is no exception.
Maybe he falls down the stairs. Maybe he falls off the balcony. Maybe he has a stroke.
There’s got to be somebody in his inner circle that can make it happen.
Bergoglio just passed his final exam — he’s ready to be the next presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
You just dropped my jaw!
Up until now, I had the utmost respect for Got Questions.
WOW!
I don’t even know what to say to their opinion other than perhaps a universalist got hired by them to type?
“So where do I tell people to go to when they piss me off?”
How about Washington, DC?! ;)
Typically spoken by someone that is concerned that they have a bad sole.
that’s funny
The Church of No Hassles isn’t just a TV sketch any more.....
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