Pope Francis, the leader of the catholic church, stunned the religious world once again, as he drifted against one of the most established statements in the bible by claiming that hell does not exist.
In an interview with an Italian daily, La Repubblica, the highly revered catholic leader claimed that there is no designated eternal lake of fire and brimstone created for all sinners and unrepentant evildoers when they die.
He said: “There is no hell where the souls of sinners suffer in eternity…After death, the souls of people who repent are pardoned by God and join in his contemplation, “but those who do not repent, and therefore cannot be pardoned, disappear…Hell does not exist – what exists is the disappearance of sinful souls.”
Though some of his saying and quotes have been arguably accepted by a good number of Christians, this new statement is bound to spark a very serous religious argument in the catholic community sooner or later.
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