Pope Francis : "God willed the plurality of religions"

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Our souls will still exist and be either with God in Paradise, or without God, which is hell.

Jim
 
so, dear friend, how do you explain your ability to choose right from wrong and animals don’t? how is it you can understand and philosophize? and recognize yourself on a mirror and have opinions?
 
If you’re right, then no harm no foul. No body including you will know you were right and everybody else was wrong. It’s lights out forever.

However

If you are wrong, then a gazillion years from now, hell is still hell. There is no clock in the after life. No seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks months, years eons. Just The eternal now. And no there is no faith or hope that hell will change or end. All realities in actions had to be done on this side of eternity.
 
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Then why would there be a heaven if He’s a sadist? Also the lunatic part isn’t very clear.
 
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well, you are alluding to elements I have not mentioned. I have narrowed my questions to be purely biological. The mention of religion and mystical reasons are not biological. Since you are strictly a biological advanced amiba, well, how do you philosophize?
 
Are you aware you’re in a Catholic Forum, attacking Catholic beliefs ?

Jim
 
On the contrary, the Triune God is pure Love.
He created us with Free Will, so that we could freely choose him and not be slaves of Love and goodness.
However, if we reject him (through sin) God won’t force us, so we end up away from God, for all eternity, a state called Hell, absent of Love, and we naturally suffer from that absence.
 
I’m sure he’s aware they’re contrary.
 
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I already know that. Our present bodies are corruptible, susceptible to Creation’s laws and other living beings.
However, in our Final Judgement we will resurrect in new, incorruptible (glorified) bodies to live in the Kingdom of God. These bodies may not even be material, as the nature of this Kingdom, when perfected, is eternal (without time or space).
 
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I’m not sure what to make of this passage in the document: " The West can discover in the East remedies for those spiritual and religious maladies that are caused by a prevailing materialism."
If it were referring to the Eastern Christian monastics, I’d say okay, yes, there are some great practices there. But I don’t think that is the reference. Besides which, the Catholic faith already contains all such remedies.
 
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Your views contradict Catholic teaching, just saying

Also, it’s not what the subject of this thread is about.

Jim
 
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“contradict.” That’s diplomatic and charitable.
 
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Thank you for being respectful, I hope that God will lead you to realize what I’ve expressed, which to me is the most fundamental Truth.

Should we bother with evangelising?
 
Maximilian75 said:
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“The pluralism and the diversity of religions … are willed by God in his wisdom…”
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Also Catechism:
843 The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved. Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as “a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life.” 332

332 LG 16; cf. NA 2; EN 53.
LG Lumen gentium
NA Nostra aetate
EN Evangelii nuntiandi
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