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If we believe the Bible is the Word of God, then Pope Francis just said that God was wrong when Jeremiah prophesied, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9 ESV).
The Christian Post reports that Pope Francis contradicted the Bible’s view of the human heart in a recent interview with 60 Minutes‘ Norah O’Donnell, when asked if he saw any hope in society.
“We are all fundamentally good,” Pope Francis told O’Donnell. “Yes, there are some rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good.”
As Pope Francis’ views became public, many responded.
Christian author, Eric Metaxas, suggested that the Pope sounded more like a heretic than the leader of one of the world’s largest church denominations:
Others compared Pope Francis to Pelagius, a fifth-century Monk who was called a heretic and excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church for holding a similar opinion.
Of course, this is not the first time Pope Francis has made comments that contradicted the Bible.
In a letter responding to a series of questions asked by Eugenio Scalfari, publisher of La Repubblica newspaper, Pope Francis said all that was necessary for an atheist to go to heaven was to live according to his conscience.
