Pope Francis has trashed the central Christian belief by saying in an interview that Jesus did not resurrect from the dead in the same body in which he was buried.
An Italian journalist, Eugenio Scalfari, said in an article in the newspaper Repubblica, which he co-founded and edited, that the Pope gave him this reconstructed view about resurrection in an interview.
Many Christians will consider the view a heresy as it hits at one of the fundamental pillars of the Christian faith.
Scalfari quoted the Pope as saying: “He was a man until he was placed in the tomb by the women who recomposed his body. That night, in the tomb, the man disappeared and from that cave he came out in the semblance of a spirit that met the women and the Apostles while still preserving the shadow of the person, and then he definitively disappeared.”
The quote attributed to the Pope is from Scalfari’s new book, The One God and Modern Society, which centres on his interviews with Pope Francis and the late Cardinal Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, the former Archbishop of Milan.
Detailed in the New Testament, the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ after his crucifixion is one of the main pillars of the Christian faith.
In 1 Corinthians, Paul the Apostle says: “For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures.”
Eugenio Scalfari, 95, a self-professed atheist and a long-time friend of Pope Francis, has conducted multiple interviews with the Pontiff that have caused much furore in the Christian community, Sputnik News reports.
He has previously claimed the Pope told him that hell does not exist, that divorced and remarried Christians should be admitted to Holy Communion, and that Jesus Christ isn’t God.
The Pope himself has never clarified his purported quotations carried by Scalfari. On each occasion, the Vatican has stated that Scalfari’s account is not reliable (the Italian journalist famously never records or takes notes of his conversations with the Pope and prefers to write his accounts later from memory).
Last month, Scalfari claimed that Pope Francis told him in a conversation over two years ago that he “conceives Christ as Jesus of Nazareth, a man, not God incarnate. Once incarnated, Jesus ceases to be a God and becomes a man until his death on the cross.”
A Vatican spokesman then said at a press conference that “the Holy Father never said what Scalfari wrote.”
He added that both the quoted remarks and interpretation of the conversation by Scalfari “cannot be considered a faithful account of what was said by the Pope.”
Replying to the alleged papal comments on the Resurrection, the Holy See Press Office said the quotation attributed to Pope Francis represents “a personal and free interpretation of those who listened, as appears completely evident from what is written today regarding the divinity of Jesus Christ.”
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Posted: at 10-11-2019 08:45 AM (5 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Pure Heresy. The ageing Holy Father should be removed from St Peter's Seat. Didn't the Risen Christ asked the unbelieving Disciple Thomas to put his fingers on the wounds He sustained on the Cross.
Posted: at 10-11-2019 09:08 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Quote from: olowoinlionsden on 10-11-2019 09:08 AM
Pure Heresy. The ageing Holy Father should be removed from St Peter's Seat. Didn't the Risen Christ asked the unbelieving Disciple Thomas to put his fingers on the wounds He sustained on the Cross.
U ARE RIGHT, SOME OF THESE POPES ACTUALLY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT JESUS. TOO MUCH POLITICS IN VATICAN CITY
Posted: at 10-11-2019 09:29 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
There were witnesses (Mary Magdalene and her friend), the disciples, etc who saw and wrote their accounts. Is the pope saying that those reports were all made-up?
Posted: at 10-11-2019 09:58 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Jesus didn’t resurrect from dead ! Ya stop fooling yourselves .Nobody has ever died to resurrect.This conspiracies theory must be ignored ,it’s so pathetic how stupidity overwhelmed humanity to ever believe such fabrication .Thank God the pope is correcting the old lies .
Posted: at 10-11-2019 10:04 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Jesus didn’t resurrect from dead ! Ya stop fooling yourselves .Nobody has ever died to resurrect.This conspiracies theory must be ignored ,it’s so pathetic how stupidity overwhelmed humanity to ever believe such fabrication .Thank God the pope is correcting the old lies . [/quote U ARE THE WORST FOOL EVER , AND A DISGRACE TO MANKIND
Posted: at 10-11-2019 10:32 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
The Church leaders are getting more confused by the day. The power of darkness is really waxing strong to bring confusion in the mist of the believers. May the Lord help us and direct our footstep to the right part.. Ameeen
Posted: at 10-11-2019 10:49 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
The Church leaders are getting more confused by the day. The power of darkness is really waxing strong to bring confusion in the mist of the believers. May the Lord help us and direct our footstep to the right part.. Ameeen
Amen
Posted: at 10-11-2019 11:48 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
fineboy77 at 10-11-2019 11:51 AM (5 years ago) (m)
Quote from: Goldtime on 10-11-2019 10:04 AM
Jesus didn’t resurrect from dead ! Ya stop fooling yourselves .Nobody has ever died to resurrect.This conspiracies theory must be ignored ,it’s so pathetic how stupidity overwhelmed humanity to ever believe such fabrication .Thank God the pope is correcting the old lies .
Are you OK?,seems you had a lot to smoke.....drink coconut water soaked with garri,you will feel better.
What is the color beneath your skin?
Posted: at 10-11-2019 11:51 AM (5 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Jesus didn’t resurrect from dead ! Ya stop fooling yourselves .Nobody has ever died to resurrect.This conspiracies theory must be ignored ,it’s so pathetic how stupidity overwhelmed humanity to ever believe such fabrication .Thank God the pope is correcting the old lies .
Exactly my person
Posted: at 10-11-2019 11:55 AM (5 years ago) | Upcoming
This is the same man wanting to merge all religions to form one religion. The same man that said it's ok for ladies to Bosom feed anyhow while the gospel is going on in the church. When Catholic church stops bowing and praying before images like that of mother Mary,Jesus,baby jesus then one can listen to him. Cos it's against the laws of God.
Posted: at 10-11-2019 12:00 PM (5 years ago) | Hero
Doyourworst at 10-11-2019 02:50 PM (5 years ago) (m)
Quote from: Elinos on 10-11-2019 12:13 PM
people comment without consuming what was written.
GBAM!.....you're Absolutely right. Most of these morons are illiterates. Some can only read, but lack the sense to understand. But what disgusts me the most is their Argument for their ignorance!. Chai.
Posted: at 10-11-2019 02:50 PM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
dopygenius at 10-11-2019 02:57 PM (5 years ago) (m)
Some Of the things The pope said are correct except for the one of Jesus didn't raised from the dead This is not the first time you may be hearing this,There is no hell fire its a teaching by myth All this arguements here will just end if you just ask Jehovah witnesses who will explain to you theoretically the true teachings from the Bible
Posted: at 10-11-2019 02:57 PM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Why all this trash comments,,it is written there that the man who said this was a fabricator, another person said that he heard it from the Pope but not Pope himself said so,, so why all this comments,,, someone from Vatican even said that Pope didn't say such thing,, people just started commenting without even finish reading all the articles. If u like believe in the resurrection or not,it is Ur business,,live Ur life as u wish,, Pope will not die with you. Suite urselves.
Posted: at 10-11-2019 03:32 PM (5 years ago) | Upcoming