Posted on 02/06/2015 6:04:19 PM PST by BlatherNaut
Pope Francis’ concept of the Catholic Church is a welcoming home for all the Lesbians, Gays, Transgenders, Bisexual, divorced and remarried, Evangelicals and atheists. He feels that these people have been oppressed by the Church by Her condemnation of these “sins” and he wants to welcome them into the “hospital church” to be accepted and healed.
I think he puts them in the same category as the poor, the unemployed youth and anyone else who may have been oppressed. Although his compassion is to be commended, it is misplaced. These people are living in sin and will go to hell if they are not corrected before they die.
The pope has a pattern.
1. He receives a letter from someone feeling alienated from the church because he is gay or had a “sex change”, (which is impossible genetically, a boy is always a boy no matter what operations he may use to change his exterior body. Boys have an X and a Y chromosome. Girls have two X chromsomes), or is divorced and remarried, or is a single mother separated from a violent boyfriend, who could have killed her baby by abortion but did not.
2. Then there comes the phone call from the pope to make them feel accepted by the “church”.
3. In some cases, they are invited to have a private audience with him.
4. Then somehow the media hears about it.
5. The liberals acclaim the pope as a hero.
6. Almost every Catholic and nonCatholic gets confused.
7. People begin to believe that the Catholic Church can, and has changed Her teachings on sexual morality.
8. Most Catholics who have already accepted the “world’s new morality” feel affirmed in their deviant life styles.
9. Their conscience is appeased because they have heard from the pope that their deviant life style is not immoral after all.
10. In fact it is something to celebrate and be proud of.
11. More people copy these sinful “Catholics” immoral life styles.
These same people continue to die at every age imaginable, every minute, all over the world and here are the consequences:
1. These people are judged by God’s rules, not Pope Francis’ rules.
2. These people may be damned to hell for all eternity.
3. Their souls are lost, not saved.
Now let us look at what then happens to someone who might disagree with the pope and instead, uphold what Jesus teaches in the Holy Bible and His 2000 year old Catholic Church.
1. Progressive blogs, media, clerics and people strongly condemn them as extremist.
2. They are immediately labeled as unloving and extremely judgmental.
3. If they happen to speak the truth at a parish or Catholic school, an angry group of opposition is organized against them.
4. They justify their anger, hate and persecution of that person by quoting “their loving pope” who says “Who am I to Judge” and “Do not talk about Abortion or Birth control”.
5. The cardinals, (like Cardinal Burke), religious, (like Franciscan Friars), or persons who spoke the Catholic truth, are then demoted, removed, silenced or punished.
6. All over the world, traditional Catholics are being persecuted and suppressed by the pope, bishops, religious and other priests.
7. Being a believing and traditional Catholic is the only “unforgivable sin”.
The very first Spiritual Work of Mercy is to Admonish the sinner. Yes, we Bible believing and Catholic Church believing people also love and care about the sinners. We love those struggling with same sex attraction or gender identity confusion or any sinful temptation and confusion. But we help them to realize;
Sin is still sin.
God loves us and put His commandments to protect us. God is just.
Any unconfessed mortal sin at time of death will condemn us to hell for all eternity.
Heaven is our true home and where true pleasure is to be found.
Let us keep on speaking the Biblical and Catholic truth no matter how much we are persecuted, judged, condemned, hated, silenced, called extremist and black listed. We are in great company with Jesus, St. John the Baptist and all the saints throughout history. Be a prophet of truth, you will be ridiculed, ostracized, called names, exiled and maybe soon, imprisoned or killed. Jesus said: “Do not be afraid”.
“Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.” Matthew 5:11-12.
Amen.
Preach it, sister!!!!!
The church is for the equipping and building up of the saints to prepare them for the work of reaching the world around them. Jesus command was to GO and make disciples, not build a church building and wait for them to come in and threaten them with hell fire and damnation because they don’t submit to the church’s rules and leadership and they miss going to Sunday services.
Precious few people who aren’t saved are going to suddenly decide to go to church and get saved.
The best way to convince someone to become a Christian is through relationships, showing the love of Christ to them on a personal basis, just like Jesus did.
He went about doing good. He healed people and cast out demons and people were drawn to Him because of the love that He showed them.
The only ones He was harsh with were the religious leaders of the day, who were hypocrites.
And nothing has changed in 2,000 years. Even today the religious leaders tend to be the biggest hypocrites. There’s precious few men who can handle the fame, money, and power that comes with being in a leadership position.
Don't stop there.
Jesus continued, "of all the nations, handing out Bibles, because the Bible is the sole or ultimate rule of faith."
Actually, He didn't say that. He said...
"Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
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"Listen to the church" --- Jesus
"If he won't listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or tax collector." -- Jesus
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Jesus never said that lay people or clergy would be sinless. But He gave His Church teaching authority.
The church is "the pillar and foundation of truth," according to St. Paul, and Jesus is Truth Itself.
I thought the word “catholic” meant all-inclusive. How is opening the doors to a wider sector of lost souls deemed as losing souls? It seems that there may be a few more that hear the Word and become saved for God’s glory.
Different condition.
http://www.examiner.com/article/woman-finds-out-she-s-genetically-a-male-still-gives-birth-naturally
Yes, the title was misleading, but I think most people know that....even those who posted as if they didn’t.
Simple. By not preaching the Truth along with “opening the doors”.
I once attended a post Vatican II church (something I will not do anymore) where the priest proclaimed that all were welcome, including gay and straight. But did I ever hear him preach on the sin of homosexuality? OF course not.
What we are seeing is just more modernism flooding the Church. This has been happening since Vatican II and the years leading up to it. Those that continue to believe that things were sooooo much better with Benedict XVI really need to open their eyes.
Francis is just more obvious about it and is now including areas of teaching that, up to this point, was not touched.
Revelation 18:9 "When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her.
I suppose having companions in hell would be some consolation in some perverted way.
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,
2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
And the blind need their leaders.
Interesting that He didn't say "make up truth". Pillars and foundations hold up things. The truth is found in scripture alone. A pillar or a foundation never once have built something.
“I thought that the church was MEANT to house sinners”
REPENTANT sinners. If you are not willing to acknowledge God and accept His will, you have no place in His body.
True.
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Sinners, yes, but not saboteurs.
And where is that teaching found?
In Scripture.....
"Listen to the church" --- Jesus
That is not a command given by Jesus anywhere in Scripture and to post it as if it is will lead to wrong theology and lead people astray.
"If he won't listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or tax collector." -- Jesus
That verse taken out of context by you AGAIN, has been corrected many times and since it appears that it has not yet sunk in, I will post the verse IN CONTEXT again.....
This passage is not a blanket order to obey the leadership of any church which claims that it alone is the one true church.
It is at the end of a discourse addressing how to handle disputes in the body.
It lays out very specifically the steps one is to go through in resolving personal conflict within the body.
Matthew 18:15-20 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church.
And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
NOWHERE does Jesus command us to "listen to the church".
The comment is *IF he does not listen to the church, then......*
That is a gross misinterpretation of the passage to claim or imply that it is a standing order of Jesus to listen to the Catholic church.
The clear meaning is here for everyone to see.It's dealing with disputes among believers, not absolute authority given to *the Church*.
Do you remember when Pope Francis said “who am I to judge?”
“I eat of the flesh and drink of the Blood of Christ as commanded. I believe and have been baptized, all without the help of rome”
Drinking that grape koolaid and piece of wonder bread given to you from pastor Billy Bob is not eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Christ.
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