Ψευδοπροφήτης (False Prophet) Francis Encourages Atheists Again

Ψευδοπροφήτης (False Prophet) Francis Encourages Atheists Again
09/12/2013 

By Cris Putnam







Paul warned Timothy, “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,” ([url=http://biblia.com/bible/esv/2 Ti 4.3]2 Ti 4:3[/url]). Of course such misleading teaching has been occurring ever since Paul’s day but the Universalist rhetoric from Rome is becoming astounding. Pope Frank is doing back flips for the approval of the world albeit this says more about Frank than then world ([url=http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Jn 15.19]Jn 15:19[/url]).

That’s right, Pope Frank is at it again… telling atheists they get a free pass to heaven without accepting the Gospel that is.  Of course, this is not the first time as he said it back in May (here and here) but the Vatican was quick to post a reply that,  “no atheists surely do go to hell” here. Appaently the so-called infallible vicar begs to differ and has written a letter to the editor of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica indicating his opinion that atheists who obey their conscience merit God’s favor and apparently are so justified to salvation.


A good Bible dictionary defines sin as “the failure or refusal of human beings to live the life intended for them by God their creator.”[1] However, Pope Frank does not understand the basic concept of sin and allows that atheists who obey their conscience (no matter how seared) are justified by their good works. Pope Frank writes:

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First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience. Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and to obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.[2]

Apparently the ψευδοπροφήτης wants us to believe the issue for those who do not believe in God is to merely obey their conscience. Not so… God demands they repent of their unbelief. While God certainly wants us to behave in morally virtuous ways, good actions are not what merits God’s ultimate approval. In justification, God imputes the righteousness of Christ to the believer, which cancels God’s judgment on the believer. A truly biblical Christian theology leads to the conclusion expressed by Baptist theologian Dr. Millard Erickson:

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Justification is a forensic act imputing the righteousness of Christ to the believer; it is not an actual infusing of holiness into the individual. It is a matter of declaring the person righteous, as a judge does in acquitting the accused. It is not a matter of making the person righteous or altering his or her actual spiritual condition.[3]

So it follows that no one earns their salvation. Justification is by faith alone (Rom3:28). An idea that is expounded on and clarified in Ephesians:

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“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.([url=http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Eph 2.4%E2%80%939]Eph 2:4–9[/url])

While Frank is correct that disobeying one’s conscience constitutes sin ([url=http://biblia.com/bible/esv/1 Cor 8.28-29]1 Cor 8:28-29[/url]), he misses the mark by a wide margin. Scripture is clear that “everything that does not come from faith is sin” ([url=http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Rom 14.23]Rom 14:23[/url]). Unbelief is sin. “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he existsand that he rewards those who seek him” ([url=http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Heb 11.6]Heb 11:6[/url]). Jesus taught that the mile-wide road advocated by Pope Frank amounts to a false Gospel:

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“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few” ([url=http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Mt 7.13%E2%80%9314]Mt 7:13–14[/url]).

The terms “few” and “narrow” seem to escape the pontiff. He is indeed a false prophet of the worst sort. He is pied piper to perdition encouraging the atheist in his rebellious suppression of the truth  ([url=http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Rom 1.18]Rom 1:18[/url]). This is exactly the sort of false teaching we expect from the one with “horns like a lamb, who speaks like a dragon.” ([url=http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Re 13.11]Re 13:11[/url])


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Catholic priests may be allowed to marry amid Papal changes Pope ‘dazzled’ by girl,
Sep13
on September 13, 2013
Posted In: World Religious News





The Vatican has opened the door to the possibility of married priests, a move that would go against centuries-old Church tradition.

Archbishop Pietro Parolin, who will be the No. 2 in the Catholic church when be becomes secretary of state next month, declared that priestly vow of celibacy derived from an age-old rule but was not Catholic dogma.


“It’s not a dogma of the Church and it can be discussed because it’s an ecclesiastical tradition,” Archbishop Parolin told El Universal in Venezuela, where he is completing his term as Papal Nuncio.


“It is a great challenge for the Pope because he has a mission to unite and all these decisions must be taken in a way that unites the Church, rather than dividing it.


“At that point, you can talk and reflect and go deeper into these issues that are not defined by faith and think about some changes, but always in the service of unity and as the will of God. It’s not what I want \ but to be faithful to what God wants for his Church.”


Archbishop Parolin’s comments come amid upheaval in the Catholic Church, which has been beset by scandals over sex abuse by priests, following the shock resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis.

Francis has made waves by calling for a “poor Church for the poor.” He has said he wants to boost the role of women in the Church – although he has noted that Pope John Paul II had ruled out the ordination of women.


He has also taken a more tolerant stance on homosexuality, declaring: “Who am I to judge?”


Yesterday, Francis reached out to non-believers in an unprecedented letter to Italy’s leading left-wing paper La Repubblica to answer a columnist who declared he did not believe in God.


The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics told Eugenio Scalfari, the newspaper’s co-founder and former editor, that non-believers did not commit a sin as long as they followed their conscience.


“The question for people who do not believe in God is to listen to their consciences. Also for those without faith, sin is going against your conscience. Listening to it and obeying it means making up one’s mind about what is good and evil.”


The Catholic insistence on the celibacy of priests dates back to the first centuries of the Church.


The first Church law mandating celibacy was Canon 33 enacted at the Synod of Elvira, now the Spanish city of Grenada, around 305-306 AD. The discipline was definitively reaffirmed at the Council of Trent in the mid-16th century.


The Orthodox Church and some Eastern Catholic churches, however, allow married priests. More recently, married Anglican priests have been allowed to enter into communion with the Catholic Church.


In March, 21 British Catholic MPs and peers, led by Rob Flello MP and Lord Alton of Liverpool, wrote to Francis to appeal for the married men to be allowed to become priests.


They argued it was an anomaly that married Anglican priests can be ordained as Catholic priests but married Catholic men cannot.


Francis, in a 2012 interview before becoming Pope, said, however, that he favoured retaining clerical celibacy.


“For the moment, I am in favour of maintaining celibacy, with all its pros and cons, because we have ten centuries of good experiences rather than failures. What happens is that the scandals have an immediate impact.


Tradition has weight and validity,” the future Pope said. “Catholic ministers chose celibacy little by little. Up until 1100, some chose it and some did not. After, the East followed the tradition of non-celibacy as personal choice, while the West went the opposite way.


“It is a matter of discipline, not of faith. It can change. Personally, it never crossed my mind to marry,” he said.


Pope Francis spoke of being ‘dazzled’ by girl, possible change of celibacy rule
Pope Francis suggested in an interview last year that the Catholic Church’s rule that priests be celibate “can change” and admitted he was tempted by a woman as a young seminarian.


He said that the married clergy of the Eastern churches are “very good priests” and those pushing for the same in Roman Catholicism do so “with a certain pragmatism.”
For now, though, “the discipline of celibacy stands firm,” he said, adding that priests should quit if they can’t abstain from sex or if they get a woman pregnant.


The former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio’s comments — published in the Spanish-language book “On the Heavens and the Earth” and translated by the Catholic news website Aleteia – were made when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires.


Father Thomas Reese, a Vatican analyst for the National Catholic Reporter, said he was surprised by the remarksbecause “the last few popes have been pretty clear they were not open to changing it or having a discussion about it.”


While Bergoglio certainly wasn’t advocating for a rule change, “it looks like he may be willing to talk about it,” Reese said.