Pope: Atheist and Agnostic can seek God... I beg your Pardon!

POPE, I BEG YOUR PARDON SIRE!
Atheist, Agnostic, and Moral!

Pope Francis recent utterances really make me to make up my mind about him and his chosen philosophy + theology as the Roman Catholic leader. To me, the pope is choosing to play down his theological or more applicable, religious views, to accommodate his moral views. I stand to be corrected, he wasn’t chosen for that purpose. In fact, most of his utterances shouldn’t be of his own judgment, but the declaration of God whom he professes to represent as found in the Holy Scripture! We don’t need to hear his own voice, neither did he has to voice his own opinion; he only need to declare as Apostle Peter, of whose descent they claim, declare in Acts of Apostles chapter 2, from verse 14 down, and without mincing words too at the chapter 5:29 “then Peter and the other Apostles answered and said, ‘we ought to obey God rather than men.’ ” I think a dangerous pursuit of irresponsible freedom, as Barrack Obama is also doing about the homosexuals, by the papacy is not what unchristian!

The 76 years old pontiff was responding to editorials written in July and August by Eugenio Scalfari, an agnostic in which he was asked whether “the Christian God forgives those who do not believe and do not seek faith.” The pope wrote: “the question for those who do not believe in God is to follow their own Conscience. Sin, even for a non-believe is when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen and to follow your conscience means that you understand the difference between good and evil.” To me, this is not the view of the scripture believing Church! It is solely the pope’s nice guy’s talk to an unbeliever! What hurt most is the stack realization that the Pope is very mild and fearful of being seen as harsh or being fanatical and wanted to be seen as nice guy, but this is not acceptable when it comes to God’s mind on any issues as seen or base on the scripture!

Agnosticism (from Greek agnōstos, “unknowable”), is the doctrine that humans cannot know of the existence of anything beyond the phenomena of their experience , while atheism is the critique and denial of metaphysical beliefs in God or spiritual beings. Here we see an atheist denying the existence of God, and the Gnostic undecided whether he is or he is not. The scripture in Hebrews 11:6 says, “…for he that cometh to God MUST believe that he is…” why then did papal say they can seek God?

Here is my own opinion or reason probable for the Pope to have uttered those ‘wrong’ words. Papal might belief that there is none that is beyond redemption if such repent, and or that God might judge those that didn’t believe in Him as God by another means if they actually ‘live’ right. This is not just ‘right’ in this case, because these set of people are not in the category of Philip, that WANT to belief, but just need to be shown the way (John14:8). They are people who have weigh their option critically, being intellectuals, and had conclusively decide that there is no God or that He just cant be known let alone have a relationship with, as the Christian faith profess, or even worshiped. These people are not in the category of the people of Athens, as found in Acts 17:22, who dedicate an altar to a god they know exists, but they don’t know how to relate with or worshiped. So with these, I conclusively say an Atheist and an Agnostic CAN NOT seek God. The day anybody from that group of people tries to seek God outside their beliefs, he CEASE to belong to them, it is after that, that such fellow can find God. Hear me, when anybody from there TRIES to seek God, it means he had started doubting the belief, and that makes such not a member again. Before an atheist or agnostic could seek God, they must let go of their former belief, before they accept the belief in God and relate with Him.

Second, we are not saved by moral or nice deeds; we are saved by GRACE through FAITH in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:8). No ‘good’ conscience is good enough for God, for God Himself declared in Genesis 6:5 that humans’ heart is evil continually, as Paul testify to the Romans, “the good I want to do, am not able to; but the bad I don’t want is what I do.” What humanity need is not a good conscience but a NEW heart, which is what God gives in Christ Jesus to anyone that believes. “for by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” Ephesians 2:8 KJV. Note: “If it is by doing good deeds or conscience that we find God, it is no longer by grace through faith; and if it be by grace through faith are we saved, then it is no longer by good works or conscience!” Romans 11:6 (MOV: My Own Version).

 Conclusively, even Papal’s remarks failed to impress the Italian union of Atheist and Agnostics, they retorted, “why should a NON-BELIEVER seek legitimization from the Pope?” This shows they are not in need of you and your God’s mercy… but are contented being a NON-BELIEVER. Please help me tell Pope Francis that our message is JESUS and HIM crucified, not cajoling or giving nice guy’s talk. There is fire on the mountain for anyone who does not believe for God has placed his judgment on all disobedience and man’s rebellion, faithlessness being chief among them.

YOU DON’T WIN THEM BY “NICE” WORDS; YOU WIN THEM BY TELLING THEM THE TRUTH IN LOVE: JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GOD! 

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