Pope Frances is quoted here as stating such:  “All religions are paths to God. I will use an analogy, they are like different languages that express the divine,” Francis said during a September trip to Singapore. “But God is for everyone, and therefore, we are all God’s children.”

There is a great deal of what various religious leaders as well as Christian denominational leaders see as hopeful in that understanding of the Pope’s.  

So what should a student of Scripture take away from this apparent unity of faiths?

Does the Bible lead us to believe that in the end: the unity of world religions is a good or a bad thing? 

To me it is strange just how easy it is for Christian leaders to dismiss or set aside what Jesus had to say on the question of the unity of world religious thought vs His own person as the only way to salvation.  His statement: “I am the way the truth and the life. No man cometh to the Father except by me. “ This was not inclusive but exclusive of all other faiths except for the good news brought us upon His death. 

“Though his predecessor, Benedict XVI, was a vocal opponent of secularism and religious disbelief, Francis made clear that atheists and people of faith should come together to do good in a homily delivered shortly after he became pope. All people, “even the atheists,” are “redeemed” through “the Blood of Christ,” Francis said in 2013.

Factually (Scripturally) there is no truth in those, his words.  To say that Jesus died for the sins of the world, though true, is not the message of the gospel.  Jesus words cannot be taken out of context.  A partial rendering of Jesus words can easily be made to twist His meaning. 

So even this set of verses as a reflection of the truth in Jesus’ first coming can be misconstrued.  But this is the minimum required in terms of Jesus own telling of His  future sacrifice.  This could be considered a minimal understanding for salvation, and it represents inclusion vs exclusion as children of God.  The Pope, who is thought to be the spokesman for worldwide Christianity (even by other world religious figures), has in what he says above only represented heresy to the faith that Jesus taught us and Himself died to establish. 

So what’s behind this? Is it simply blind liberalism, or is it much more dangerous? There are those even within the Catholic Church, who believe Francis to have been prepared for and somehow chosen for and then placed where he was by world leaders of the WEF in league with the CIA; British and Israeli intelligence.

Liberal Christians seem to be easily swayed into wanting to give sonship to every human, who ever has lived. Yet Jesus words:   Matthew 7:14  “For the gate is narrow and the way is constricted that leads to life, and there are few who find it. (NASB2020)

All of Jesus’ words are ripe with meaning.  What He says here should have a shock factor to it.  A liberal is meant to read such truth and say: “should I be thinking something different than I currently do?  Could I possibly miss this eternal life that I’m now thinking is universal?”  But they really seem much more likely to think that what they believe is truth, over and above what Jesus says.  No matter from whom or from whence Francis has come his true influence seems most likely to have been Satanic. Jesus spoke to the Jewish religious leaders of His own days upon earth as to their having come from their father the devil. I see no more truth having come from Francis than had come from these. Jesus will not save false teachers or non believers, who may follow after them, unless they come to accept the real truth.