Author Topic: Shocking review of Popes new book (Read 5807 times)

Matthew · « **on:** March 10, 2011, 10:02:17 AM »

“I was astonished at how Protestant and Evangelical he sounds,” Evan said. “I wouldn’t hesitate to give this book to my students. If it didn’t say ‘Pope Benedict’ on the cover, they might not even know it’s not a Protestant book.”

Pope says: Church should not pursue the conversion of Jews.

Articles below:

http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/church-should-not-pursue-conversion-jews-pope-says

http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/new-book-confirms-benedict-xvi-his-own-best-spokesperson

Jehanne · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2011, 11:04:25 AM »

We have another going on this. Having been a former evangelical myself, I can say with 100% certainty that they will not endorse the Pope's statements, at least the conservative evangelicals. Problem with this heresy is that it will "turn off" a lot of evangelicals to the Catholic faith and will cause some NOs to leave the Faith for Evangelicalism.

It's hard to get people into the True Church when you have heretics on the outside who are professing more orthodoxy with respect to some truths than the heretics who are on the "inside" who are either denying or at least questioning those same Truths.

Caminus · « **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2011, 11:13:24 AM »

There's an inherent contradiction in such a notion. Benedict claims that we should not convert Jews because "Israel has it's own time." A question, your Holiness, what of all the Jews prior to this vague time somewhere off in the future? Are they all to be damned, until that one group of future Jews collectively referred to as "Israel" gets access to God's Mercy? Either he holds that they are saved currently by some means, or that they are all damned. Obviously, he would reject that latter, so he must hold the former. Thus, speaking about an eschatalogical event that negates any work today is simply a clever way to avoid the demands of the Gospel. So he holds that Israel will be converted in the future, but is already saved, ergo, the contradiction.

Caminus · « **Reply #3 on:** March 10, 2011, 11:24:10 AM »

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Commenting on Jesus’ prayer in the Gospel of John that “they may all be one,” Benedict XVI insists on continuing the quest for “visible unity” among the divided branches of the Christian family.

“The struggle for the visible unity of the disciples of Jesus Christ remains an urgent task for Christians of all times and places,” Benedict writes.

“The invisible unity of the ‘community’ is not sufficient,” he writes. “Unity must be visible, it must be recognizable as something that does not exist elsewhere in the world; as something that is inexplicable on the basis of mankind’s own efforts and that therefore makes visible the workings of a higher power.”

Finally, he says it explicitly. The entire ecuмenical venture rests upon this heretical notion of an underlying invisible unity. He also implicitly robs the true Church of one of her essential notes: unity, which she possesses now and has always possessed. Sure, they claim this as well, but then utter statements like this above thereby contradicting themselves.

MyrnaM · « **Reply #4 on:** March 10, 2011, 11:44:01 AM »

This may be recommended reading for those traditionalist who still believe that he is the One True Pope. However for those who have already faced the truth about the man, I would recommend a good spiritual book, especially now that Lent is here.

The way things look is the world, who knows it may be our last Lent on Earth. Make it a fruitful one