Pope Francis says atheists can be good Just do good, and we’ll find a meeting point, says Francis in marked departure from Benedict’s line on non-Catholics


My Comment:  Just do good and we’ll find a meeting point?  Ok all sorts of alarm bells are going off, and God is setting them off.  I’m beginning to understand why I felt God telling me the other day ‘Look daughter what my people are doing.’  It’s not just the dividing of Jerusalem, and a multitude of other sins, it’s the formation of the ‘One world religion’.  God say’s “I am the Lord your God, you will have no other God’s before me!’  What part of that is so hard to understand?  The Bible or Jesus never said, just do good and all will go to heaven.  He said ‘ I am the truth the light and the way, and no one gets to the Father except through me.’   He didn’t say , you believe your way and I’ll believe mine and we’ll meet in the middle just do good.  This is liberation theology 101.  Be very careful believing this.

By the Guardian

Pope Francis

Atheists should be seen as good people if they do good, Pope Francis has said in his latest urging that people of all religions, and none, work together.

The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics made his comments in the homily of his morning mass at his residence, a daily event at which he speaks without prepared comments.

He told the story of a Catholic who asked a priest if even atheists had been redeemed by Jesus.

“Even them, everyone,” the pope answered, according to Vatican Radio. “We all have the duty to do good,” he said.

“Just do good, and we’ll find a meeting point,” the pope said in a hypothetical reply to the hypothetical comment: “But I don’t believe. I’m an atheist.”

Francis’s reaching out to atheists and people who belong to no religion is in marked contrast to the attitude of his predecessor, Benedict, who sometimes prompted complaints from non-Catholics that he seemed to see them as second-class believers.



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  1. Friday, May 24, 2013
    http://www.jonchristianryter.com/Short.Takes/news.html
    BAFFauthor says:
    The first thing God’s going to ask
    Pope Francis will likely be: “Did you
    ever take the time to read My Book?”
    May 23, 2013—During his homily at Mass on Wednesday, May 22, Pope Francis I shocked some devout Catholics—and a ton of Protestants—when he emphasized the importance of “good works” as a means of salvation, adding that everyone is redeemed through Christ Jesus—including atheists. The Catholic pontiff used scripture from the Gospel of Mark, quoting scripture where Christ’s disciples spoke disdainfully about a man—not a disciple—casting demons out of a person in Jesus’ name. The disciples told Jesus they forbade the man from doing so. The man was obviously a believer and, while not an Apostle, believed Christ was the Messiah. Jesus admonished the Apostle, telling him: “Forbid him not; for there is no man who shall do a miracle in My name that can lightly speak evil of Me. For he that is not against us is for us. . .”
    –Albert, www

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  2. Here is the link to the whole text: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-says-everyone-can-do-good-regardless-of-belief/

    I can see how this can sound appealing to people who don’t see/know the big picture. At some point he says that Christ has redeemed everyone (and that is true), but he doesn’t say EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM. A person can do good things, but there is no redemption unless he believes in Jesus Christ!
    Also, the last paragraph talks about asking for grace from a ‘saint’ (look up St. Rita of Cascia and ‘mortification of the flesh’)

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  3. Now I would really have to agree with what is said here concerning atheists who are good people .. I often wonder if it would be better to not believe in God, than to follow a false christ ..

    So I would consider that if an atheist or a follower of a false christ continue to walk in the ways of doing good over evil, holding to Loving Positive ways over wicked negative ways … at some point in time, there just might be a Positive Light of truth to shine through giving direction for the process of a Utopia life and this life …

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  4. Know therefore this day,and consider it in thine heart,that the Lord he is God in heaven above,and upon the earth beneath:there is none else.
    (Deuteronomy 4 V 39)
    Julia

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  5. Peter of Rome better read the gospels, especially Jesus’ half brother’s letter to the scattered 12 tribes–James 2:14-26.
    albert, www

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