More than a problematic view of God’s justice — a downright incorrect view of God’s justice and what is clearly written and easily understood, even by a child, in God’s inerrant infallible unchanging living and active Word.

Why do I keep writing — in God’s inerrant infallible unchanging living and active Word? Because it’s stunningly clear that the overwhelming majority and this includes most professing to be Christians, do not believe that the Holy Bible is inerrant, infallible, unchanging and unchangeable, living, and active. It is not some dusty old ancient book of stories and tales. It is the God-breathed words of God our Creator to select men by the Holy Spirit over a period of about 1,600 years. It is THEE BOOK of truth, the only book on earth 100% eternal truth as no other book was written by God. The Holy Bible is THEE BOOK of past, present, and future history. Of what was and what is to come. Without error.

The administrator of A Crooked Path took the liberty of altering the original heading to the following article. The original heading was; The Pope Hopes No One is in Hell.

That might have been shorter, but not as accurate as the altered version.

‘They shall not make any bald place on their heads, nor shall they shave the edges of their beards nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

Leviticus 21:5

Readers may say or think, well, that’s an Old Testament law for Jews that does not pertain to us! But it is part of the Ten Commandments to obey the Lord your God. And to have no other gods before you, as the shaving of a circle on the head, trimming of facial hair, and cuttings into one’s flesh were all practices of pagans worshipping their pagan gods.

As if, in such ignorance, the one shaving the spot, the one wearing the beanie imagines that brings them closer to God and God’s righteousness can seep into them better! That outward appearance shows others of their divine service. God looks at and knows the heart. It isn’t what is outward for all to see. It’s what is truly in the individual heart. Which only God knows. Men are not to have their heads covered when before God, in God’s home, God’s church.

It may be considered legalism now, especially for a truly born again Christian, but the above are God’s words to man. What God says. What God wants. What God expects. It doesn’t matter if we like it, agree, or don’t fully understand — we are not to argue with God or disobey Him. Who are we to argue, debate, and disobey the Creator!?

You may not like the altered headline but it is more accurate than the original.

There is a hell. And sadly, tragically, many are there. In fact, many more find themselves there and will find themselves there than the number of souls in heaven since the majority rebel, refuse to believe, refuse to repent, refuse to submit, refuse to obey, refuse Jesus Christ as Lord of their lives, as the only way to salvation and eternal life.

Ken Pullen, Wednesday, March 20th, 2024

The Pompous Papal Seat Warming Beanie Wearing [Replacing the Age Old Shaving of A Circle On the Head Which Directly Goes Against Scripture] Heretic Hopes No One Is In Hell

A problematic view of God’s justice.

March 19, 2024

By Dennis Prager

Reprinted from FrontPageMag

In a television interview watched by millions, Pope Francis recently made a comment about hell that has been widely reported.

In the words of the Catholic News Agency:

“When asked by the interviewer, Fabio Fazio, how he ‘imagines hell,’ Pope Francis gave a short response. ‘What I am going to say is not a dogma of faith but my own personal view: I like to think of hell as empty; I hope it is.’”

I have a different — indeed, completely opposite — view.

I should make it clear that I, too, hope that sometime in the future — hopefully the near future — no one will be sent to hell. That would mean goodness had finally so prevailed on Earth that not one person was deserving of punishment in the afterlife.

But as of this moment, I fervently hope that some people are in hell — or whatever one wishes to call punishment after life; just as I hope some people are in heaven — or whatever one wishes to call reward in an afterlife.

Why? Because if no one is punished after death, that would mean either there is no God or, equally depressing, it would mean God is not just.

It should be added that if no one is punished, the corollary would mean that no one is rewarded. Pure logic dictates it is not possible to have an afterlife in which people were rewarded but not punished. It would mean either everyone is rewarded — which would mean there is no justice — or only some are rewarded. But if only some are rewarded, that means those who are deprived of reward are thereby punished.

It shows how little serious thought is given to the subject that a vast number of people do not think the existence of a heaven and a hell are important subjects and/or dismiss them as religious nonsense.

This absence of serious thought can be easily demonstrated. Let’s imagine a society in which there were no rewards or punishments. I suspect almost no one — though not no one, as we shall see — thinks that would be a good society. How many people would want to live in a society in which murderers and rapists were never punished while people who engaged in exceptional goodness were never rewarded?

If that doesn’t make the case, let’s not imagine a whole society. Let’s imagine a school. Would you send your child to a school in which students who routinely disturbed their classes and flunked all their subjects were never punished and students who excelled behaviorally and academically were never rewarded?

I assume not. So why, then, would anyone want such a scenario for all of life? Why would anyone want people who committed terrible evils not to be punished and people who committed heroic, self-sacrificing good acts not to be rewarded?

This is why I wrote that there is an absence of serious thought on this issue. What people would find utterly objectionable in their society or even just in their child’s school, they are at peace with regarding life.

But there is more to this issue. People are in fact increasingly at peace with no reward or punishment in this life. This is the egalitarian impulse that is coming to dominate intellectual life. More and more people are in fact advocating such a society. No more “retributive justice.” No more merit-based standards. No more valedictorians. No more failing grades. No more SATs. Indeed, no more standards. No more bail. No more punishment if you are caught stealing less than a thousand dollars’ worth of goods. No more prosecutors who prosecute. Only “equity.”

I am convinced that is what animated Pope Francis’ words. Note that he said he was stating his opinion, not church dogma. And as a man of the Left, he’s uncomfortable with reward and especially punishment. As an egalitarian, the thought that anyone is in hell disturbs him.

So, why do people who think like the Pope oppose rewards and punishments?

Because rewards and punishments mean that one must make judgments about better and worse — morally, academically and in most other spheres of life. It’s better to just assume no one is better than anyone else. That is what has animated participation trophies — no one, not even a team, is better or worse. In much of the contemporary intellectual world, the greatest sin is judging sin. And when you do away with sin, you do away with hell.