Pope Francis has double pneumonia as tests reveal ‘complex’ medical situation Pontiff, 88, already in hospital when latest diagnosis made, as Vatican confirms medical situation is ‘complex’
Pope Francis has been diagnosed with double pneumonia after further tests showed a continuing “complex” medical situation, the Vatican said in a statement on Tuesday.
The pontiff, 88, underwent a chest X-ray, which “demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia that required further pharmacological therapy”.
The closest thing Scripture says to there being different levels of heaven is found in 2 Corinthians 12:2, “I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows.” Some interpret this as indicating that there are three different levels of heaven: a level for “super-committed Christians” or Christians who have obtained a high level of spirituality, a level for “ordinary” Christians, and a level for Christians who did not serve God faithfully. This view has no basis in Scripture.
Paul is not saying that there are three heavens or even three levels of heaven. In many ancient cultures, people used the term heaven to describe three different “realms”—the sky, outer space, and then a spiritual heaven. Paul was saying that God took him to the “spiritual” heaven—the realm beyond the physical universe where God dwells. The concept of different levels of heaven may have come in part from Dante’s The Divine Comedy in which the poet describes both heaven and hell as having nine different levels. The Divine Comedy, however, is a fictional work. The idea of different levels of heaven is foreign to Scripture.
On Tuesday, Feb 11th author and former senior pastor of Saddleback Church Rick Warren deleted a tweet that used the Crucifixion to suggest that Jesus Christ would be a political centrist. The viral post received more than 3 million views after several Christian leaders and influencers criticized him and accusing him of misinterpreting the Bible.
On Feb. 11, Warren posted an image of Jesus hanging on the cross in between the two thieves with the caption: “John 19:18 ‘They crucified Jesus with two others—one on each side & Jesus in the middle.’ The guys on both sides were thieves. If you’re looking for the #realJesus, not a caricature disfigured by partisan motivations, you’ll find him in the middle, not on either side.”
Pope Francis continues to wade into American politics in a way he doesn’t do for other countries, sending a letter to US bishops decrying mass deportation and rejecting “any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.”
While there is no such thing as a ‘good’ pope, since they are the head of an evil and wicked heterodox church, Francis has been particularly noxious and vexatious, doing things like affirming the faith of Joe Biden and saying he would never refuse him communion because the President’s love for abortion is between him and God, endorsing civil unions for gay couples, appointing multiple pro-choice people to his pro-life organization, saying that all religions lead to God, and are merely “different paths,” appointing a notorious pro-LGBTQ priest to a major post, releasing an outrageously blasphemous statement, saying that sermons should be no more than 8 minutes, and insisting that “people are fundamentally good” and that “the heart itself is good.”
The ESV Translation Oversight Committee (TOC) is a standing committee of the Crossway Board of Directors. The purpose of the TOC is to preserve and carry forward the publication of the English Standard Version Bible translation and to ensure the ongoing accuracy of the ESV for this generation and generations to come.
With this purpose in mind, the TOC met over the summer of 2024 to consider a limited number of minor changes to the ESV text. Briefly summarized, the committee made changes to 36 Scripture passages involving 42 verses, resulting in a total of 68 word changes. Given that there are nearly 757,400 words in the ESV, this represents a change of about one word per 11,000 words in the ESV text. In addition to the above text changes, a limited number of changes were made to 57 footnotes, and a few additional changes were also made to punctuation in 14 verses.
Given that there are more than 540 editions of the ESV currently being published worldwide, the rollout of the text update will take nearly two years to complete, with the first copies of the new ESV text editions being released in the spring of 2025 and, Lord willing, with almost all of the new ESV text editions being published by the fall of 2026.
Many teach an easy believism so they focus only on John 3:16 and they don’t bother to read and include the rest of the passages . This idea of easy believism excludes God doing anything in the sinner to change their nature by the washing in regeneration by the Holy Spirit ( Titus 3:5 ). This is so wrong on so many levels, the end result is a false conversion, for only God can save the sinner by His Grace . Then they say everyone goes to Heaven and there is no such thing as hell and that God is all love and would never send anyone to hell. Then you ask yourself , why would they teach salvation this way , well we have false Gospels out there, say this prayer and you are in, walk the isle and you are saved , ask Jesus into your heart and you are good to go.
This brings in more questions, why are they propagating a false gospel ? Dishonest gain and control over the people. Is this to make certain people rich ? We have to be in the scriptures everyday and in prayer , we need to learn discernment, to know the truth as God has reveled to us in scripture from error . Jesus gave a good explanation to Nicodemus in John chapter 3 , about being born again and this is done by the Holy spirit and describes this using an analogy of the wind, the wind blows where it wills, you can see the effects of the wind, you don’t know where it is coming from or where it is going and you cannot control the wind, so is everyone who is born of the Spirit , for it is all of God and you have no part in it .
A Transformed life by God will be evident , they will not be who they used to be, they will hate their once cherished sins, they will see clearly what sin is before a Holy God . They have newness of life and desire to live a Holy life and to live Righteously and they love the Lord Jesus Christ and they love the Word of God and they desire to grow and mature to be more like Christ . They will deny themselves , take up their cross and follow Christ , even if it will cost them their life. For they know that they belong to Christ . You will know them by the fruit they bear and how they live .
John 3 : 16 – 21
16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light lest his deeds be exposed. 21 But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been done by God.”
