Posted on 04/20/2016 7:27:09 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
We should only look to Jesus for Heaven, Pope Francis said during a recent mass.
The pontiff made his comments Monday while speaking from Casa Santa Marta at the Vatican, saying that only through Jesus can people go to heaven
"The Lord thus clearly says: you cannot enter eternal life by any entryway that is not the door – that is not Jesus," the pontiff said. "He is the door of our life – and not only of eternal life, but also of our daily lives."
The pope added that he who attempts to reach heaven by an alternative way to Jesus "is a thief and a robber."
"He who does not enter the sheepfold by the door," but rather goes a different way, "is a thief and a robber," the pope said, noting that "there is no other" route.
"Jesus shows the way forward: there is no other who can show the way," Francis said.
"Any decision I take, I take either in the name of Jesus, passing by way of the door of Jesus, or I take it a little – shall we say in simple language – through the smuggler's hatch [It. contrabbando]? We enter the enclosure through the door, which is Jesus," the pope stated.
The pope also stressed the importance of Jesus and eternity in a February 2015 homily, saying that all humans have a hunger that can only be satisfied through a relationship with Jesus Christ, who he described as the "bread of life."
"We all have this hunger […] It is the hunger for life - the hunger for eternity - that only He can satisfy because He is the bread of life" he said.
Along with looking to Jesus for eternal salvation, the Pope also spoke on the importance of the church in one's faith.
Francis said during a mass in May 2014 that God meant for us to live in a Christian community, rather than be isolated.
"Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without this, we are not Christians. We entered the Church through baptism: there we are Christians," the pope said. "A Christian without a church is something purely idealistic, it is not real."
"Jesus Christ did not fall from the sky like a superhero who comes to save us. No. Jesus Christ has a history. And we can say, and it is true, that God has a history because He wanted to walk with us. And you cannot understand Jesus Christ without His history. So a Christian without history, without a Christian nation, a Christian without the Church is incomprehensible. It is a thing of the laboratory, an artificial thing, a thing that cannot give life," Francis added.
The pontiff added at the time that just as it is difficult for Jesus Christ to be understood alone without the Christian religion, so it is equally difficult to understand a Christian alone without also taking into account the Church and their Christian brothers and sisters.
After reading through his comments he sounds more Protestant than Catholic...again. Yes, Jesus is the Way....through His Church, the Catholic Church, but he never takes the opportunity to teach Catholic dogma: that Outside the Catholic Church there is No Salvation.
Of course, he believes in the heresy that is enshrined in Vatican II (See tagline) so this makes absolute sense.
Don't be fooled!
How long did it take for the media to report it? Would anybody have posted it to the FR Religion Form if I hadn’t? Seriously.
Well good for him for saying so but how does this conform with his statements that atheists can go to heaven? This man is the most inconsistent and intellectually lazy pope in the history of the church.
The "unchanging" church has spoken!
Why would star fish and dolphins need to be rescued from a flood?
No, Falconspeed has spoken.
I don't see any Catholic rebuking him . . . do you?
Catholics are always posting blasphemous garbage like this attacking the veracity of the Bible, and the only sound from their "traditionalist" co-religionists is crickets.
How a Catholic who believes in total Biblical inerrancy on all subjects can even feel a kinship with such people is beyond me, but they're all members of the family in good standing. I'd smell brimstone on them, myself.
Why do you even speak of the “Bible” when you deny half of it?
There was already a Bible. No one was ever authorized to add to it.
Since you absolutely refuse to deal with the fact that unlike me, your religion accepts Biblical books which it then declares are full of errors and mistakes, there is obviously no further need in trying to discuss this with you.
Do you have any idea how often I would have to post if I had to “correct” the post Vatican II Catholics’ understanding of the Traditional Catholic Faith on this board?
Francis already lends to too much posting.
Once again, you are deliberately bearing false witness against me. But I guess that's OK in your phony religion.
I don’t think he was necessarily bearing false witness against you per se, but he was definitely making a false statement about our religion.
I disagree.
The seven Noahide laws as traditionally enumerated are:
1. Do not deny God.
2. Do not blaspheme God.
3. Do not murder.
4. Do not engage in illicit sexual relations.
5. Do not steal.
6. Do not eat of a live animal.
7. Establish courts/legal system to ensure obedience to the law.
See? No law against bearing false witness.
I could be wrong for sure.
My impression is that Pope Francis was saying that atheists can accept Christ and go to heaven, definitely not that they can reject Christ and go to heaven.
But I say ,”my impression,” because of the ever-salient Bergoglio Uncertainty Principle. I’m still not sure whether he is a Master of Ambiguity, or its victim.
Pretty sure One Person bore ultimate responsibility for the Book of Genesis. ;-)
If he’s serious he would renounce any and all catholic writings that attribute any and all aspects of salvation associated with Mary.
Are you saying the Flood as recorded in Genesis did not happen?
No...outside of Christ there is no salvation. Period. Denominations are not part of the discussion. No mention of the roman catholic church, Methodists, Baptists, etc.
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