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POPE: DON'T TALK TO THE DEVIL
In sermon, Francis says eternal damnation not a 'torture chamber'
Pope Francis offered some advice about the devil and hell in a sermon Friday – warning Christians not to talk to Satan and suggesting eternal damnation is not a “torture chamber.”
“He is a liar and what’s more is the father of lies, he generates lies and is a trickster,” Francis said of the devil. “He makes you believe that if you eat this apple you will be like a God. He sells it to you like this and you buy it and in the end he tricks you, deceives you and ruins your life.”
Reading from the book of Revelation, the Roman Catholic Church leader talked about what the Bible describes as the “second death,” or being thrown into the “pool of fire.”
“Eternal damnation is not a torture chamber,” he said. “That’s a description of this second death: it is a death. And those who will not be received in the Kingdom of God, it’s because they have not drawn close to the Lord. These are the people who journeyed along their own path, distancing themselves from the Lord and passing in front of the Lord but then choosing to walk away from Him.
Eternal damnation is continually distancing oneself from God. It is the worst pain, an unsatisfied heart, a heart that was created to find God but which, out of arrogance and self-confidence, distances itself from God.”
He said, however, that hope lies within turning to and encountering Jesus.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/pope-dont-talk-to-the-devil/#mUjKg5fWgp1bKodt.99My comments: The Pope apparently does not understand Hell. In Christ Jesus' Parable of the Rich man and Lazarus the Rich man was in Hell: "The Rich man also died and was buried. In Hell, where he was Tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in Agony in this Fire."'
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