Five Questions Protestants can’t answer?
1. “The Book of Revelation includes ‘fornicators and murderers’ in its description of souls who are damned. I use abortion-inducing birth control pills and implants. Does that choice put me among the ‘fornicators and murderers’?”
2. “My denomination does not condemn birth control chemicals and implants that cause the tiniest of our babies, no bigger than a grain of salt, to die. My spouse and I may have killed dozens of our own, tiniest babies. No one ever explained what we were doing to them. Can we be forgiven?”
3. “I am a Protestant minister. My denomination avoids preaching and teaching about the billions of tiny babies being killed by abortion-inducing birth control. Will Jesus forgive me for what I have ignored? Will He forgive me for continuing to ignore the deaths of the most innocent children in my family and congregation?”
4. “As a minister, I know that Jesus said: ‘It would be better to have a millstone tied around your neck and be thrown into the sea than to lead a little one of mine astray.’ Is my soul lost because I have not taught the truth about the billions of babies who have been killed, many in my own congregation? Can I be forgiven for what I have done?”
5. “As a minister, I know that the teachings of The Catholic Church are correct: ‘Life is to be protected from conception to natural death.’ The teachings of my denomination are vague and unclear. None of us, even married clergy, are taught that it is wrong to kill our own, tiny babies with deadly chemicals and implants. Do I have a duty to tell people to follow Catholic teaching, even if it empties my own church?
Many are not so blinded by vanity they cannot see the enormity of the sin. Those blessed people are also able to understand how Jesus said sins could be forgiven. Catholic priests, in living link with His Ordination of The Apostles, are given the awesome power smarter sinners heed:
“Those whose sins you forgive on earth are forgiven in Heaven.”
It is best to do whatever is necessary to receive Absolution from the only people ordained with the power to provide it.
