what if he steps onto a spaceship to Pluto and starts communicating only in morse code?
But really…what if?
the mathematics of fluid mechanics at the corners and edges would be truly unbearable . . . if current physics were kept, the wet edges would get rounded, so gravitational calculations, for example, would need an anglular calculation rather than distance, and the flow near edges where direction suddenly changes ninety degrees would, uhm . . .But really…what if?
If that happened I’d think the Pope was a bit dotty. And then I’d dash out the door.
Who did? We’ve already established the OP’s position isn’t an accurate reflection of the Pope’s words. It has long been the position of the Church (my lifetime, at least - multiple popes) that evangelism and conversion are not the same thing. We evangelize; the Holy Spirit converts.
I have no issue what your position. I am saying that the Pope’s actual statement that we are referring to did not say what you just stated, and that others have had to backpedal on his actual statement and say he meant something he didn’t say. The problem is that the Pope has routinely made public statements that are unclear or confusing and he rarely takes the time to clarify them. He has a tendency to muddy the waters theologically for the sake of not being offensive. I think he can do a better job of being correct theologically, AND saying things in a way that isn’t abrasive. We don’t have to dilute the truth to deal with the world that doesn’t know Christ.
We don’t convert people. God’s Grace converts them. Best we can do is evangelize and pray for people.
That’s a What If? … .
We don’t convert anyone, God’s grace converts people.
That’s a Double What If? …
The instruction not to convert the Jews is 1000 years or more old in the Church. It’s always been a temptation of the zealots to blame the Jews for Christs death hence the need for the Magisterium to severely forbid any attempt to convert or destroy them.
