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Pope: God is not a mysterious force - he is a real person

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  • SAY IT LOUD ! 11 years ago

    LET ANY GOOD-MINDED AND REASONABLE AND EVEN SENSIBLE PERSON LOOK AT THIS STATEMENT OF THE POPE AND THE RELIGION OF CHURCHIANITY, AND SEE IF IT MAKES SENSE.

    LETS BE HONEST ABOUT IT. WHAT SENSE REALLY IS IN THESE STATEMENTS? ...
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  • Yaw 11 years ago

    The weak-minded is the one who believes in his mind or what is in his mind -- matter which is here today and gone the next. The Bible says it is in God we live, move and have our being. Even our existence is in him. What the ...
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  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
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  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • KWASI 11 years ago

    "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."John 4:24.

    There is a sense of chauvinism in the Pope's comments. God can also be a Mother, Sister, Brother and Father. He's not just a Father o ...
    read full comment

  • nana kakahini amankwaa 11 years ago

    Man made God. God made man. God is an assumption. God is what u make God to be. Which is the truth? I need a drink.

  • Future Judge 11 years ago

    Rightly said. This is a sermon and is about the real God. God who lives and exists within us. What the Pope said is full of spiritual meanings and unless one has faith in God it is senseless in his ears. If you have not had a ...
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  • Sarskoberta 11 years ago

    "The congregation is made up of members for public security at the Vatican and gurrantees and coordinate all armed escort for the Pope when he leaves the vatican." Pope Francis

    Logic,Via common sense:
    One wonders; having ...
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  • SAY IT LOUD ! 11 years ago

    YOU JUST SAID, POPE, THAT GOD(AND "JESUS" ARE/IS?, MAN AND REAL. SO HOW DO YOU ENCOUNTER HIM IN YOUR SAYING AS FOLLOWS:


    ""Let us ask the Lord that we may grow in this faith, this faith that makes us strong, makes us joyf ...
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  • no name 11 years ago

    God is a spirit not a man.

  • Chris 11 years ago

    Dis pope is nt serious at all , does he think he is talking animals ? Are u God ?

  • Adobah 11 years ago

    Bravo Pope! I had similar experience just a day went by. your teaching is more surreal than any teaching that I have had for years. may you get blessed with wisdom to teach the gospel of peace to all nations that includes Isr ...
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  • salifu 11 years ago

    Isn't this a double talk? Observe:

    Take care that we lose not that salvation, that life and breath which thou hast given us, for thou art our shepherd, thou art our physician, thou art our governor, thou art our husbandman ...
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  • Salifu 11 years ago

    "And what harmony has Christ with Belial? or what part has he that believes with an infidel? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them ...
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  • POP 11 years ago

    TORTURE -- INFANTICIDE -- BRUTALITY -- MURDER

    The World Would Never Be the Same

    "The execution of Jesus was a crime born of the streets, the barracks, the enclaves of the privileged, and the smoke-filled back rooms of r ...
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  • EZEKIEL 11 years ago

    Hmmmmmmmmm ! I'm confused. God a REAL PERSON ???? I bet, Africans KNEW this REAL PERSON before Christianity came to our shores !!! Whatabout the sayings..."God IS Love,God is Truth etc. and God IS EVERLASTING"!!
    A PERSON LIV ...
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  • POP 11 years ago

    Christianity as we know today was not founded by Jesus but by S.S Peter & Paul (ie, Saint & Saint Peter & Paul)

    In Matthew 16:18, Jesus said to the apostle Peter, "And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will ...
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  • JOHN PRATIK 11 years ago

    SUPER -POPE

  • mensah abrampa 11 years ago

    I am a Christian and believe In God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost and claim the privilege of worshipping Almighty God according to the dictates of my own conscience, and allow all me ...
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