Re: “Pope Francis threatens hell – hooray!”
Dennis Prager wrote: “Last week, Pope Francis warned Italy’s mafia leaders that if they continue their evil ways, they will go to hell. Hooray for the pope. More power to him for threatening evil people with hell.”
That’s all well and good, but I wonder if Mr. Prager would be as supportive if the pope actually started proclaiming the truth about the vast majority of people who are guilty of a much greater evil (see Matthew 11:20-30; John 9:35-41; 19:10-11), and are assuredly on their way to hell if they refuse to repent! Jesus himself plainly declared:
“Whoever believes in [Jesus, the Son of God] is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God” (John 3:18-21).
Roger Mann
