“Heaven is a state of the soul”

 

A)  The text of the speech by J.M.Bergoglio:

This is the Church’s destination: it is, as the Bible says, the “new Jerusalem”, “Paradise”. More than a place, it is a “state” of soul in which our deepest hopes are fulfilled in superabundance and our being, as creatures and as children of God, reach their full maturity” (Interview to the newspaper “Corriere della Sera”, March 5, 2014)

 

B) References to Scriptures:

Do not let your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust also in me. In my Father’s house there are many places to live in; otherwise I would have told you. I am going now to prepare a place for you, and after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you to myself, so that you may be with me where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going” (Joh 14:1-4)

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, ‘Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God-with-them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone” (Rev 21:1-4 )

 

C) Comment:

Authentic Christians do not believe in Heaven as a “state of the soul”, as stated by Bergoglio.

Paradise is a metaphysical dimension, where body and soul are. Not a state, not a feeling, but a concrete and real dimension, as Jesus confirms us in the Gospels. Who does not believe so, is not Christian.

Christianity is not a philosophy. It is THE religion revealed by God the Almighty Father, that in Jesus, the Christ, is manifested.

Bergoglio is out. He is out of these elementary schemes.

Those who follow Bergoglio and his teachings, go out, go out from those that are the authentic Christian teachings of Jesus, the Master.

Bergoglio spreads different teachings, a different doctrine, a religious philosophy in line with Oriental philosophies, or, if you prefer, in line with what was said by Catherine, audacious flamenco dancer in the comic movie The Cyclone: ​​”El paraiso no es un lugar donde ir, sino una sensaciòn para vivir!” (Heaven is not a place to go but a sensation to live for).