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Pope Francis has died

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916 points phillipharris | 2 comments | 21 Apr 25 08:00 UTC | HN request time: 1.281s | source
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fleabitdev ◴[21 Apr 25 09:42 UTC] No.43750020[source]▶
Last year, an interviewer asked Francis how he envisages hell. His response stayed with me: “It’s difficult to imagine it. What I would say is not a dogma of faith, but my personal thought: I like to think hell is empty; I hope it is.”
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fastball ◴[21 Apr 25 09:53 UTC] No.43750085[source]▶
Nothing from the Bible indicates that hell is empty, so that is indeed an interesting response from the Pope.
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Trasmatta ◴[21 Apr 25 11:33 UTC] No.43750720[source]▶
The Bible has very little to say about hell in general.
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fastball ◴[21 Apr 25 11:49 UTC] No.43750854[source]▶
Gonna disagree with you there.

https://www.openbible.info/topics/hell

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andybak ◴[21 Apr 25 12:03 UTC] No.43750957[source]▶
Modern academic scholarship paints a very complex picture: https://www.bartehrman.com/hell-in-the-bible/

I would argue that reading random quotes without context can be misleading. Unless of course you believe in a univocal, consistent and divinely inspired bible - which is a fairly extreme position to take.

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1. Ajedi32 ◴[21 Apr 25 14:03 UTC] No.43752137[source]▶
> I would argue that reading random quotes without context can be misleading. Unless of course you believe in a univocal, consistent and divinely inspired bible - which is a fairly extreme position to take.

Those two statements don't follow. You can believe in a univocal, consistent and divinely inspired Bible and still think taking random quotes out of context is bad exegesis.

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2. andybak ◴[21 Apr 25 14:09 UTC] No.43752198[source]▶
I see what you mean but I wasn't making a formal logical argument. Rather I meant something like "These particular quotes are more likely to be regarded as inherently meaningful on their own by someone who believes in a univocal, consistent and divinely inspired Bible"

Not my best-crafted piece of self-expression I will admit.