re: Pope tells kids in Singapore all religions lead to God

I hope the next Pope is Catholic.

Including Satanism?

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I’m confused by your response. Grace would be God’s unmerited favor on us, the good he gives us that we do not deserve. My whole post discussed that grace.

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I'm confused by your confusion. Yes, grace is God's unwarranted favor upon us. What you aren't understanding is how we undeserving, sinful, dishonest, filthy sinners access that grace. The ONLY biblical way to that grace is accepting Jesus as our Lord and saviour.
There is no other way that Jesus or his disciples communicates to us.
Again, maybe God will change His plan....... but that's NOT for us to decide. That's God's business.
Paul said:

Galatians 1:8
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.

How can it be any more clear?

HERESY.

I can't believe this man claims to be a Christian. But then again, he is Roman Catholic.

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How does that address my concern that God is OK with letting the billions of people who are not of Christian religions rot in hell?

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So, you want God to force you to love Him? Is that how love works? Do you have children? What do you do with a stubborn child? A child that repeatedly and incessantly defies your every attempt to improve his/her life? Do you beat them into submission? Or, do you

Psalm 81:12 “So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, To walk in their own devices. …

and hope they come to their senses? I think a good father does the latter.

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Many of which are raised in third world shithole villages and never in their lives even hear about christianity. frick those guys, right?

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The Joshua Project. Yeah man. That’s a big deal. There are billions of people who seem to have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Still tho- how many of them are burning in Hell? The answer is still the same as those who have heard- only the ones that want to.

Here’s a little verse that speaks to your query:

Acts 17:30 “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent

But, wait- there’s more!

Acts 14:16 “In the generations gone by He permitted all the nations to go their own ways;

Romans 3:25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed

From these verses alone- it seems as though ignorance (of Christ’s redemptive resurrection) has been accounted for.

Nobody goes to heaven, or hell, against their true will (vs what we tell ourselves our “will” is). Take my youngest son (anyone who wants pics can meet me at Sonic), for example. He says he wants to be a football player. But, every day, when he comes home from school and I ask him if he wants to go practice in the backyard- he says no, and proceeds to eat junk food and watch YouTube while lounging on the couch. Does he really want to be a football player? This is a great example of what Jesus meant when He said “you will know them by their fruits.” (Which reminds me how terrible I am at emulating Christ- and simultaneously makes me relieved to know that the God of all creation took this into account before He laid the foundations of the universe.)

I am starting to ramble. Sorry. My whole point is that I also don’t believe in the god that you don’t believe in. And that the god that the average atheist tears down, is nothing but a contrived straw man that fits all too neatly into a man made bucket that doesn’t carry water.

This is the God that I believe in:

[i]Isaiah 30:18 Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him.

Catholics voted for him

I'm no fan of Francis, but to be fair, he's the most misquoted pope to date. Give it a week and get what he actually said

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I'm not Catholic. But can someone that is explain to me how this guy became Pope? What is going on internally that made this guy's rise possible? Maybe have a do-over and get someone else in there.

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The same thing that has ruined this nation. There's such a thing as too much tolerance.
It infects the process and politics become more important than what the institution (our federal government or the beuaracy within the church) was designed to stand for.
It's inevitable. Man is corrupt and eventually corrupts everything he touches.

True, their stress ramps up considerably after their last gasp however. Big surprise coming to be sure.

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Is the Pope Catholic?

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I have only been a Catholic for over half century, pretty sure Jesus is the only path to salvation.