re: What is up with your Pope - Hell is gone now

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lol he can be communist all he wants, its not like he is making political decisions.

if anything wouldnt communism be good for the catholic church

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Seriously...what are these tards mad about? Was Jesus a capitalist? I don't remember exactly

The city on 7 hills.


Revelations 17

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In ancient times, the city of Rome was known as “the city on seven hills” because there are seven prominent hills that surround the city. So, the thinking goes, we can know that it is somehow connected with Rome. So, if the evil end-times system is somehow associated with Rome – it does not take much thought to see a potential connection with the Roman Catholic Church, which is centered in Rome. Numerous passages in the Bible describe an “Antichrist” who will lead the anti-Christ movement in the end times (Daniel 9:27; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4; Revelation 13:5-8). So, if the end-times evil world system is centered in Rome and led by an individual – the Pope is a likely candidate.

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Vatican City is not built on seven hills, but only one: Vatican Hill, which is not one of the seven upon which ancient Rome was built. Those hills are on the east side of the Tiber river; Vatican Hill is on the west.

Also, the greek word "horos" is almost always translated as "mountain". Of the sixty-five occurances of this word in the New Testament, only three times is it rendered as "hill" by the KJV. Modern bibles have similar ratios. If the passage states that the Whore sits on "seven mountains," it could refer to anything. Mountains are common biblical symbols, often symbolizing whole kingdoms (cf. Ps. 68:15; Dan. 2:35; Amos 4:1, 6:1; Obad. 8–21). The Whore’s seven mountains might be seven kingdoms she reigns over, or seven kingdoms with which she has something in common.

With regards to the phrase "Babylon the great" (Greek: Babulon a megala), it occurs five times in Revelation (14:8, 16:19, 17:5, 18:2, and 18:21). Light is shed on its meaning when one notices that Babylon is referred to as "the great city" seven times in the book (16:19, 17:18, 18:10, 16, 18, 19, 21). Other than these, there is only one reference to "the great city." That passage is 11:8, which states that the bodies of God’s two witnesses "will lie in the street of the great city, which is allegorically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified."

"The great city" is symbolically called Sodom, a reference to Jerusalem, symbolically called "Sodom" in the Old Testament (cf. Is. 1:10; Ezek. 16:1–3, 46–56). We also know Jerusalem is the "the great city" of Revelation 11:8 because the verse says it was "where the Lord was crucified."

The Lord was not crucified in Rome, nor Vatican City.

Put down your Chick Tracts and stop listening to Jimmy Swaggart.

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Nah, Jesus thought poor people were gross and taught that the rich should definitely keep everything they own and continue to add to it and then they definitely go to heaven. I believe the exact quote was "It's so easy for rich men to go to heaven, even easier than a camel stepping over a needle" or something like that, don't know if that is it exactly because I don't have my bible with me right now but definitely something like that.

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Another Catholic bashing thread.

You do know Vatican City is its own city/state right? Its the worlds smallest country.

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Another Catholic bashing thread. 

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Why is it "Catholic bashing" to point out clear heresies?

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Hell does not exist and that condemned souls just "disappear."

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Not that far removed from the Old Testaments depiction of Sheol where souls just linger about in nothingness.

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What "people?"

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Don't be obtuse. Most Christians in the US think of Hell as a place filled with fire and brimstone where you are forever punished by Satan and his demon minions. None of that is in the Bible.

To say people disappear into nothing is actually far closer to the old Hebrew texts that Jesus would have been following.