Friday, April 6, 2018

no hell

Rob Bell was chastised, run out of his church and branded a heretic for suggesting that maybe there was no hell. If God gets what God wants, and God wants all people to be saved, then maybe they will be, Bell said.

Now we have this from Newsweek:
Catholic Pope Francis made a startling revelation Thursday by stating that hell did not exist, in an interview with a leading liberal Italian newspaper.

In an article entitled "It is an honor to be called a revolutionary," La Repubblica editor Eugenio Scalfari acknowledged the pontiff's previous remarks about how "good souls" who sought repentance from God would receive it and then asked: "What about the bad souls?". Seemingly going against centuries of core Christian belief, Pope Francis said the souls of sinners simply vanished after death, and were not subject to an eternity of punishment.

"They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear," Pope Francis said, as translated by Catholic blog Rorate Caeli.

"There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls," he added.


I wonder if the evangelical community is going to rise up and say that the Pope is a heretic? I hope not. Christians should not shame other people with whom they disagree. We should be able to agree to disagree on theological issues.

It's a beautiful day in God's world be sure to see the good.
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