Was Pope Francis Right When He Said ‘Every Religion Is A Way To Arrive At God?’

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Today's question on Presbyter Chat: Was Pope Francis right when he said every religion is a way to God? Heresy is only half the answer - the other half is wrapped in a mysterious edict issued by the Vatican in 2008. And it may go a long way in explaining why this Pope has broken away from 2,000 years of doctrine and dogma.  Show notes:   https://catholic-resources.org/ChurchDocs/CDWDS-Name-of-God-2008.htm  https://veritas-vincit-international.org/2019/12/12/pope-blesses-pachamama/  https://www.archbalt.org/no-yahweh-in-songs-prayers-at-catholic-masses-vatican-rules/  https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-pope-francis-diversity-of-religious-identities-is-a-gift-of-god/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_deities  ⁠First Christian bible of 144 A.D.⁠:  https://www.theveryfirstbible.org  ⁠Marcionite Christian Church⁠:  https://www.marcionitechurch.org  ⁠Presbyter Chat⁠ on YouTube  ⁠Pre-Nicene Channel⁠ on Twitter  Learn more with a visit to the ⁠Pre-Nicene Free Bookstore⁠.  Help support the show by sharing it on your favorite social media platform and including us in your prayers. -DK

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00:00Time for another edition of Presbyter Chat, where your questions are answered through

00:06the prism of pre-Nicene Christianity.

00:09Now your host, Presbyter Darren Kalama.

00:12Thanks for joining us.

00:14Today's question is, was Pope Francis right when he said,

00:18Every religion is a way to arrive at God?

00:22Well, first, the statement in itself is absolutist and objectivist at the same time.

00:28It's indifferentism on parade, the end result being a lukewarm solution of tasteless, liquefied

00:37theological word slurpees.

00:40It sounds like something a child might blurt out if pressed to give an answer after reading

00:44the back page of an astrology magazine.

00:48Yet within its seemingly innocent simplicity lies a very complex deception, a slippery

00:54linguistic wolf in sheep's clothing, if you will.

00:58And by the way, Bergoglio is fluent in six languages.

01:03He chose Italian when making the statement in front of a group of young students in Singapore

01:08earlier this month.

01:10The Vatican press office tried to get ahead of the controversy by issuing a semantically

01:15bleached version of his statement in English.

01:18But after careful study, he really did say it, and he meant every word of it.

01:24In fact, just days later, he doubled down on it and said, quote, Diversity of religious

01:30identities is a gift from God, unquote.

01:34He said that in an address to another group of students at the Tirana Med 24 conference.

01:41So this is no typo or slip of the tongue.

01:45This is reaffirmed doctrine, dogma, and belief of the Pope.

01:49Let there be no confusion as we move forward.

01:52Now, before we can answer the question, we have to ask a simple question in response.

01:58When Bergoglio says every religion is a way to arrive at God, which God is he referring to?

02:06And don't just blow this question off with a knee-jerk reaction of, what?

02:10You know, God, everybody knows what God is.

02:13This question gets to the heart of Bergoglio's seemingly simple statement.

02:19Now, take a moment and think carefully.

02:22He just said the word God.

02:24No actual name for this God that he refers to.

02:28Yet, here he is speaking to a non-Christian audience.

02:32The majority of people that he was speaking to in Thailand are Buddhists.

02:36Now, when you say the word God to them, it could be any one of dozens of gods, all with

02:44names I'm not even going to bother trying to pronounce.

02:47But here's a few anyway.

02:49Ramogasiddhi, Ratnasambhava, and, of course, who can forget, Ekasetahedatisvari.

03:00In any event, these are just the Buddhist gods.

03:03Not complicated enough for you?

03:05Let's start listing all the gods of the Hindus.

03:08There's roughly 33 million gods in that pile alone.

03:13And lots of things are considered to be religions.

03:16Wiccans, Satanism, Raëlism and their UFO worshippers, the climate cult.

03:23The Romans worshipped the sun god Sol Invictus in their religion.

03:27Even Scientology and their intergalactic ruler Xenu is defined as a religion under IRS rules.

03:36See where I'm going with this?

03:37When we apply context and reality to a statement, it's rendered meaningless.

03:43The theological slurpy of nonsense that I described earlier.

03:47And as if it was possible, he makes the statement even more meaningless by not even mentioning

03:53the name Jesus in his address to these Buddhists.

03:56There's zero context happening here.

03:59Now, if you were a Singaporean in that audience, your understanding would be that Bergoglio

04:05just gave your religion and gods the official papal seal of approval.

04:10There's no other way to interpret his statement.

04:14As Christians, we're reminded that the only way to the Father is through the Son.

04:19And that means he just sent everyone in that audience down the spiritual path to the Dead

04:24Sea.

04:25A one-way trip to nowhere.

04:27As Pope, Bergoglio is well aware that thousands of religions around the world worship millions

04:34of various gods and deities, all with different names.

04:38And yet, curiously, he provides no name for the God of the Catholic Church.

04:44And yet, the name that he is so unwilling to utter is written exactly 6,832 times in

04:51the Old Testament Torah books, yet Pope Francis will not say the name in public.

04:58Interestingly, the name is found nowhere in the New Testament, not even once.

05:03And since June 29th of the year 2008, by decree of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine

05:11Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, no Catholic is allowed to say the name either.

05:17You heard me right.

05:19You're not allowed to say the name of your own God.

05:22And neither is Bergoglio.

05:24You see, all references to the name were removed from every Catholic hymnal and liturgical

05:31guide in the world.

05:33Sound a little weird?

05:34Well, saddle up, because we're just getting started.

05:38Now, the inutterable name is Yahweh, spelled Y-A-H-W-E-H, and he's the desert war god of

05:47the Jews.

05:49And he's just one of a dozen that they worshipped at one time or another over the millennia.

05:54And since the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, you as a Catholic are also expected to worship

06:02the Yahweh deity as your God.

06:05However, as of the year 2008, you're not allowed to say the name of this deity, nor is your

06:11Pope.

06:12This worshipping of the Jewish Yahweh deity caused a schism among the pre-Nicene Christians.

06:19Those who wanted to staple the Jewish religion and the Yahweh deity to the front of their

06:23Bible are known as Judeo-Christians, with many denominations and subsets, including

06:30the Catholics.

06:31But those Christians who rejected the desert war god of the Jews did so with the full knowledge

06:37that Yahweh and the Jews had nothing to do with Jesus Christ and their God.

06:43In fact, they maintain that God was only revealed to us through Jesus Christ, not before.

06:50Now, the pre-Nicene Christian denominations refer to God with the name Our Father.

06:57And as you would expect, He is the Father of Jesus.

07:00And again, the only way to, the only path to the Father is through the Son.

07:06In fact, you won't find anything called the Old Testament and its Torah books in the first

07:11Christian Bible of 144 AD, nor will you find the name Yahweh in it.

07:18It wasn't until hundreds of years later when the Catholic Church finally published its

07:23own version of a Bible in 382 AD that the two religions were stapled together.

07:29So how can I and the pre-Nicene Christians be so sure that the name of God is Our Father

07:36and not a deity from an alien religion called Yahweh?

07:40Well, we can be sure because Jesus Christ Himself tells us so.

07:46Now, we find the first example when the Apostles ask Jesus how to pray to God.

07:52You know it as the Lord's Prayer.

07:54And it's the same in the first Christian Bible, chapter 8, verse 1, and in the later Judeo-Christian

08:00Bible versions as found in Matthew chapter 6, verses 9 through 13, and Luke chapter 11,

08:08verses 1 through 4.

08:10Now, pay close attention to the specific name that Jesus uses.

08:15And it came to pass whilst he was in a certain place praying to the Father, when he ceased,

08:21one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his

08:27disciples.

08:28And he said unto them, When you pray, say, Father, let your Holy Spirit come upon us,

08:34hallowed be your name.

08:36Unquote.

08:37Now, did you see any Yahweh's in there?

08:39I didn't hear anything called Yahweh in there, did you?

08:42The Apostles are literally asking Jesus how to address God by name and pray to Him directly.

08:49And the name Jesus tells them to use is Our Father, not Yahweh.

08:54Now, this is just one of many examples that illustrate an alien religion was stapled onto

09:00your edited Judeo-Christian Bible, and it partially explains why the Catholic Church

09:06is erasing the name, treating it like a dirty little secret never to be spoken of, and like

09:13magic 2,000 years of history erased from memory 16 years ago through an edict you never

09:20heard of.

09:22Still not convinced?

09:24Here's another example, and it doesn't get much more direct than this.

09:28With his last dying breath, literally his last words on the cross, what name does Jesus

09:34use for God?

09:36And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the sanctuary was rent in the midst.

09:40And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said,

09:43Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.

09:48And having said this, he expired.

09:57And now, with our luggage filled with context and history, our journey comes back full circle

10:03to the original question of the episode.

10:06Was Pope Francis right when he said every religion is a way to arrive at God?

10:12And the answer is whose God?

10:14And why is his statement spoken in such a way as to make God sound like a bus stop?

10:19If he's referring to Yahweh, the name of his God written 6,832 times in his Judeo-Christian

10:26Bible, we are reminded that many of the pre-Nicene Christians were of the belief that Yahweh

10:33was just another name for Satan, as we read in 2 Corinthians 4, 1-2.

10:39But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world

10:45hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel

10:49of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

10:54So according to this, we see Satan is a deity that operates in this earthly world.

11:00And we know that nowhere in Bergoglio's speech did he mention the name Jesus, much less preach

11:06his gospel.

11:07Now, let's look at his statement again, but this time use the actual name of Bergoglio's

11:13God.

11:14Let's see how it sounds.

11:16Every religion is a way to arrive at Yahweh.

11:20Sounds a little goofy, doesn't it?

11:21A little weird?

11:23And if you're in one of the foreign audiences in Singapore hearing that, what are you thinking

11:29as a Buddhist?

11:30Well, you're definitely wondering why the Pope is trying to sell you an alien Jewish

11:35war god named Yahweh, that's for sure.

11:39It boils down to word games and deceptive marketing.

11:43Now here's another example, a personal one, which I normally don't do, but every Christian

11:48that I know, and by the way I'm the product of 12 years of Catholic schooling, four of

11:53those in a high school taught by brothers, including a stint as altar boy at Chicago's

11:58Holy Name Cathedral, every Christian and Catholic that I know signed up for Jesus

12:03Christ.

12:05Nobody signed up for something called a Yahweh, nobody, nor would they.

12:11Nobody at your local seminary signed up because of Yahweh and his alien Torah books.

12:17People come to Christianity because of Jesus, but they get sold a Yahweh on the back end,

12:23an alien deity they neither asked for nor wanted.

12:27And that's exactly why they banned the name Yahweh from all Catholic liturgy 16 years

12:33ago.

12:34They don't want you being reminded that in 325 AD at the Council of Nicaea, your religion

12:41was hijacked by Judaizers, and in 382 AD the theft was codified with Torah books being

12:48stapled to the front of your Bible.

12:51Make no mistake, Bergoglio is a master at nuance, implied conclusions, and subtle inference

12:57using six different languages.

13:00Remember his famous, who am I to judge, comment?

13:04Remember the COVID scandals and his blessing of the South American Pakamama statues at

13:10the Vatican?

13:11But with this recent statement, he's crossed a red line for many Christians.

13:17Think about it, how many Catholics, seeing no other option, has he sickened and driven

13:22out of the church and into the waiting arms of atheism?

13:26Is it all by design?

13:28I'm here to tell you there's another option.

13:31Don't accept the false choice of having to take Jesus with a Yahweh poison pill.

13:37It doesn't have to be that way.

13:39And for the first pre-Nicene Christian denominations, it wasn't.

13:43Their churches and the first Christian Bible are still among us today.

13:47If you'd like to reconnect with our Father and the faith of the first Christians when

13:51they had their own Bible, their own religion, and their own God, you can visit marcionitechurch.org

13:59and theveryfirstbible.org.

14:03With what's on the horizon for all of us, you'll need solid theological footing and

14:08enhanced spiritual discernment.

14:11May our Father's Holy Spirit find and guide you in these confusing times and lift the

14:15veil from your hearts and minds.

14:18I'm Darren Calam and we'll see you next time on PresbyterChad.

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