http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1572646.ece
2007-03-27 11:25:30 · 9 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hell is a place where sinners really do burn in an everlasting fire, and not just a religious symbol designed to galvanise the faithful, the Pope has warned. But how does he know this?
2007-03-27 11:26:55 · update #1
He is Satan. I'd like to see a better explanation than that.
2007-03-27 11:30:41 · answer #1 · answered by Gordon Freeman 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
All Christians believe that hell really exists.
No one really knows what hell is like. It has been described by people who have not been there as everything from flames to a frozen lake (Dante).
Hell is the state of complete and final self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed, reserved for those who refuse by their own free choice to believe and be converted from sin, even to the end of their lives
With love in Christ.
2007-03-28 00:30:54 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How does the Pope "know"? I don't think he does, but as the leader of the Roman Catholic church, it is his job to lead his people and if he feels the need to remind people that hell exists, then I figure let me remind us. Nothing new to me.
The first paragraph of that article is not a direct quote, so I don't give it a lot of weight.
2007-03-27 18:33:35 · answer #3 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's been reading the National Enquirer too much and watching too many Armageddon type movies...
2007-03-27 18:32:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Pope doesn't know it. He may believe it, but he has no proof. No one alive can know.
2007-03-27 18:31:01 · answer #5 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When he says "hell" he means Los Angeles...
2007-03-27 18:30:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
is this the same pope, who murdered so many french women? (because of infallibility, all popes are the same)
2007-03-27 18:28:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I would assume he read it in the bible ( i hope he does) because its in the bible.
2007-03-27 18:31:13 · answer #8 · answered by K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mabe he's a masquerading satan.
but hec! he cured himself of parkinsons just by praying!
so i guess that means he knows everything.
lol!
2007-03-27 18:32:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋