There is a popular ecumenical idea that claims that everyone will be saved, regardless of their beliefs or deeds. Many Christian leaders today have embraced the Pope’s popular notion. It claims that we are all part of one big happy ecumenical family. We are all God’s children, and each faith is a different way of approaching the same God. This theory that no one is going to be lost originated in the Garden of Eden, when Satan defied God’s warning and assured Eve, “Ye shall not surely die” (Genesis 3:4). Here, Satan argues that faith and obedience to God’s word are meaningless since, according to him, no one will be lost, everyone will be saved, and hell will be empty.
On September 15, 2021, Pope Francis had an in-flight press conference on his way back from his trip to Slovakia. During the interview, the Pope stated the following:
“Respect everyone. The Lord is good and will save everyone — do not say this aloud [laughs] — but the Lord wants to save everyone. Please do not make the Church deny her truth. Many, many people of homosexual orientation approach the Sacrament of Penance, they approach to ask priests for advice, the Church helps them to move forward in their lives.” [1]
Even though Pope Francis was discussing homosexuality in this case, the concept that everyone will be saved is at the heart of his encyclical Fratelli Tutti:
Fratelli Tutti, paragraph #277. “The Church esteems the ways in which God works in other religions, and rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions. She has a high regard for their manner of life and conduct, their precepts and doctrines which… often reflect a ray of that truth which enlightens all men and women.” [2]
Fratelli Tutti, paragraph #281. “A journey of peace is possible between religions. Its point of departure must be God’s way of seeing things. God does not see with his eyes, God sees with his heart. And God’s love is the same for everyone, regardless of religion. Even if they are atheists, his love is the same. When the last day comes, and there is sufficient light to see things as they really are, we are going to find ourselves quite surprised.” [2]
Catholic and Protestant theology have embraced this idea of universalism, the notion that God doesn’t see with His eyes, but with His heart. In other words, God doesn’t see the evil deeds of people; He ignores them. He dismisses false doctrine and ignores sin. Krishna, Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus, Mother Earth, and every other god are to be embraced because they will all be together in heaven anyway.
If this is true, then Jesus died in vain. His sacrifice wasn’t needed. Not only did Jesus come to this earth in vain, but everything else He said in the Bible was in vain. And for Christ to speak about hell, well, according to the ecumenical movement, He must have been dishonest or delusional because nobody is going to hell.
Repentance is also meaningless. You can do anything you want and live your life the way you want because nobody will suffer any consequences. By the way, we don’t need to evangelize anyone either. We don’t have to share the Three Angels’ Messages, the everlasting gospel, or the final warning message because, according to the modern ecumenical movement, God has been redefined and He doesn’t care about any of those things. Even Hitler, Stalin, and Mao will be in heaven, even though they never repented of anything.
Although Pope Francis’ ideas are popular, they represent major theological errors. They are dangerous assumptions. They overlook evil and make a mockery of God and His Son’s sacrifice. They are preaching the gospel of Antichrist rather than the gospel of Christ. In reality, this is a fulfillment of a Bible prophecy that describes the entire world, including all of its religions and ideas, as being joined together in one big universal solidarity:
“And all the world wondered after the beast.” Revelation 13:3.
“These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.” Revelation 17:13.
“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” Revelation 18:3.
The whole world will be united, including Catholics, Protestants, pagans, spiritualists, and agnostics. Bible prophecy also tells us that this end-time world power will dominate world trade, international politics, and military might and bring humanity to the brink of total self-destruction during the implementation of the mark of the beast.
“Babylon will make all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. Every nation will be involved … There will be a universal bond of union, one great harmony, a confederacy of Satan’s forces” (Last Day Events, p. 136).
“The professed Protestant world will form a confederacy with the man of sin, and the church and the world will be in corrupt harmony” (Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p. 975).
If we have truly accepted Christ’s gospel, we will not tolerate the deadly error of universalism. If we truly believed in the Holy Scriptures and the Three Angels’ Messages, we would oppose the Antichrist’s apostate corporate solidarity, which preaches that the entire world will be saved. Our association with the Marxist globalists and the ecumenical movement would come to an end quickly if we were genuinely doing what God wanted us to accomplish. Because, as Satan unifies his forces into one universal brotherhood, God’s loyal people will issue the final invitation of mercy to the world, as described in Revelation 14:6-12 and Revelation 18:1-4.
“Revelation 18 points to the time when, as the result of rejecting the threefold warning of Revelation 14:6-12, the church will have fully reached the condition foretold by the second angel, and the people of God still in Babylon will be called upon to separate from her communion. This message is the last that will ever be given to the world” (Great Controversy, p. 390).
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Amen brother Andy.
Aloha from the Island of Maui, SMK!
Dear Pastor Andy, the last quote you gave from GC p.390, IS Present Truth, 2022!
The Lord’s Remnant Ecclesia of Living Stones; the fruit of the flower/and plant, which is the Seventh Day Adventist Movement/2nd Advent Movement, which has grown from the “Seed/Stone” buried in the earth 2000 years ago, and water by the blood of our Lord, is the embodiment of Revelation 18:1-4, which is the embodiment of the 3 Angel’s Message, Revelation 14:6-12!
The “Last Link” in the prophetic chain, that links the Spirit of Prophecy to the Testimony of Jesus IS the Last Generation of the Remnant Ecclesia of Living Stones, that is now being gathered from the 4 corners of the earth! This “Movement” dwarfs any and all “Church” religious systems, and is connected to Revelation 10! And has planted the Banner of Truth, and the Banner of the Spirit of Prophecy, on the Stone Mountain Kingdom, of Daniel 2:34-35, and 44-45!
Aloha, from your brother in Christ,
Maka’ala Stone
Then I can understand well who is antichrist. All religion are are in truth??? Surely this is denying My Savior Christ.
amen Ugwaneza!
Universalism a huge great error/evil:
{A great portion of the wicked were greatly enraged, as they suffered the effects of the plagues. It was a scene of fearful agony.
Parents were bitterly reproaching their children, and children reproaching their parents, brothers their sisters, and sisters their brothers.
Loud wailing cries were heard in every direction, It was you who kept me from receiving the truth, which would have saved me from this awful hour.
The people turned upon the ministers with bitter hate, and reproached them, telling them, You have not warned us.
You told us all the world was to be converted, and cried, Peace, peace, to quiet every fear that was aroused.
You have not told us of this hour, and those who warned us of it you said were fanatics, and evil men, who would ruin us. But the ministers, I saw, did not escape the wrath of God. Their sufferings were ten fold greater than their people’s. 1, SG, 200.2}