All a Hoax

    So, have you all heard about the speech that came from Pope Francis a little while back? It has recently come to my attention that he declared that there is no hell while Adam and Eve are just a fable. To people that may have been a part of hearing this speech you as a believer were probably floored. I mean we are raised our whole lives as believers based off of the Adam and Eve story. That is what set our world into sin and hell is the place that we would go if we did not commit to Christ. Now years upon years later we hear that one of the biggest religious icons claims that it is all wrong??? This tends to make us ticked and dizzy for it messes with our hearts and minds with what's truly real.

    Before we jump straight into this argument of what the Pope himself said about religion let us read a little bit more about hell as well as Adam and Eve. 

What the bible says this about hell...

   

"The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, all the nations that forget God."   ~Psalms 9:17

"For great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths, from the realm of the dead."   ~Psalms 86:13

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started! You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?"   ~Matthew 23:29-33

"The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell."   ~James 3:6

"For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment"              ~2 Peter 2:4

"When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades."   ~Revelation 1:17-18

   

    Can you imagine a world without discipline? Or a world without evil? How exactly would the Hollywood movies occur if there was only good without an evil force working against them? There would be no plot…I am not saying that sin needs to be so the world is more interesting. Punishment of sin needs to be. And there is no possible way we can do without a hell. I know this might sound odd saying we need a hell because it’s horrible to see anyone deemed to that. But what would this world be like if there was no punishment for sin? Of course sin can and needs to be forgiven but only if you choose to ask for it. I just do not quite understand where exactly Pope Francis is getting his logic in saying hell is fake. Christ himself did not create sin man did (aka, Adam and Eve…the other half of this argument). Do you think if God could choose to have a world with sin or a world without which do you think he would choose? He does not want to see us suffer which is why he loves us so much to constantly be there for us. It is such a hard thing in life to be a Christian and it is that struggle that makes your relationship with Christ. God wants to see you growing and learning things for the better half of your life. There has to be two sides to a situation. Christ says that all that trust and profess through him will have eternal life while those doing the opposite will go to the fiery pits of hell. If there was no literal hell then we would not need to have those standards because everyone would receive the same relationship with Christ. So saying that there is no hell means to say that one person with a strong relationship with Christ would have the same relationship as a non-religious person with God.

    God created those boundaries because we are bound to sin naturally. I am not quite sure what is the logic behind the Pope’s reasoning for saying hell is basically a figment of the religious world. Most people would love to think that. I mean what person actually wants there to be a hell? It is such a horrible thing to know that the nonbelievers around us that we feel could never see our side of Christ will live in eternal hell. It is such a horrendous reality of how this world came into sin and that we would struggle with it for the rest of our lives which brings us to the coming of Adam and Eve.

    The second part of the Pope’s speech was stating that Adam and Eve were just a fable. Before we get deeper into that let us actually look at what Pope Francis said word for word.

“Through humility, soul searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a literal hell where people suffer. This doctrine is incompatible with the infinite love of God. God is not a judge but a friend and a lover of humanity. God seeks not to condemn but only to embrace. Like the fable of Adam and Eve, we see hell as a literary device. Hell is merely a metaphor for the isolated soul, which like all souls ultimately will be united in love with God.”

    The whole point of this lesson is not to bash Pope Francis on what he believes is right it is to simply take the idea of anyone saying that we no longer believe in a literal hell while Adam and Eve are fables. Sometimes we can find it very hard to believe that Adam and Eve were real because the story sounds like one from an evil fairytale. But if there was no Adam and Eve then who and where did the sin come from? I doubt it that God himself created sin so that we would repent and run to him. Like anyone else neither I nor the Pope will ever know if there is a true heaven or hell. Yes I truly believe that they both exist but clearly his belief varies on faith and background through Christ. I am not saying that the Pope has a rough relationship with Christ but he clearly has different views. The one thing that just makes no sense is that he states that God simply loves us to much to ever have a literal hell. Yes Christ loves us beyond measure which is why there is a hell. This may seem like the biggest oxymoron. But Christ sees that justice is due fit for every single person. He wants to see everyone repent and be his child eternally in his presence but I also think that if we don’t make that step and frankly never want to then he simply has no control over that once it is done because he would have never of known us.

    If there simply was no consequence for sin then there would be not deviation between the saved and not saved. There seems to be so many points and sides to this story that you can simply become confused with what is real and what is not. The facts are out there and the bible is the number one back up of this story. It comes down to what you believe is true through Christ.

Word of the Day: “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”   ~2 Corinthians 4:18

*For further insight on the speech Pope Francis gave read further into the article used during this lesson at, http://www.naijaurban.com/no-hell-fire-adam-eve-not-real-pope-francis-exposes/