Using the term Feeneyites, for lack of a better word. I'd like to understand how and why you adopted the positions or a derivation of the positions of Leonard Feeney. Maybe it was something you read, a pamphlet, a radio show, perhaps you live near one of their areas. I'm genuinely curious.
I learned from my infancy and my father and all relatives too, that John 3:5 is interpreted literally. I am a Spaniard by blood, and so are all of my family and ancestors. It is the reason why we kept the Protestant heretics out of our countries, for we knew that they and all of the Indians are damned unless they embrace the true faith. It has nothing to do with a Fr. Feeney.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1552xavier4.htmlFrom: Henry James Coleridge, ed., The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier, 2d Ed., 2 Vols., (London: Burns & Oates, 1890), Vol. II, pp. 331-350; reprinted in William H. McNeil and Mitsuko Iriye, eds., Modern Asia and Africa, Readings in World History Vol. 9, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), pp. 20-30.
St. Francis Xavier:
Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus in Europe, 1552
One of the things that most of all pains and torments these Japanese is, that we teach them that the prison of hell is irrevocably shut, so that there is no egress therefrom. For they grieve over the fate of their departed children, of their parents and relatives, and they often show their grief by their tears. So they ask us if there is any hope, any way to free them by prayer from that eternal misery, and I am obliged to answer that there is absolutely none. Their grief at this affects and torments them wonderfully; they almost pine away with sorrow. But there is this good thing about their trouble---it makes one hope that they will all be the more laborious for their own salvation, lest they like their forefathers, should be condemned to everlasting punishment. They often ask if God cannot take their fathers out of hell, and why their punishment must never have an end. We gave them a satisfactory answer, but they did not cease to grieve over the misfortune of their relatives; and I can hardly restrain my tears sometimes at seeing men so dear to my heart suffer such intense pain about a thing which is already done with and can never be undone.