Many of our friends, family, and neighbors have been led to this risky conclusion: “I believe, therefore I am saved.” That is a passage in The Bible, but it does not stand alone. It is the opening of a door.
Other passages tell us of barriers beyond the door that must be hurdled. John, 6: 53 is clear. “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” The Catholic Fundamentalist reaches an unavoidable conclusion from that passage: “Unless there are zombies in Heaven, you must receive, or, maybe, die with the deep desire to receive, Catholic Communion to have enough life in you to be saved.”
After one continues reading what follows John 6: 53 and finishes the Sixth Chapter written for our instruction by The Most Beloved Disciple, we see other references to things necessary for Salvation that are beyond merely “believing”.
St. Paul, chosen by Jesus to be a contemporary of the Apostles, the first Catholic Bishops, gives additional evidence to the importance of being Catholic in Eph 2:19-22. “Brothers and sisters: You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.”
When we read closely we see that to be “fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God”, we see that there is only one “household” and one “foundation” not a ridiculous 43,000 separate “households”, all of them with different human “foundations”, each calling itself “Christian”.
Then, three following words reinforce the belief of those intelligent enough to obey and move to The Only Church Jesus Founded: “Through him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord; in Him you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.”
“structure” is not “Structures”. “temple” is not “temples”. “A dwelling place” is there instead of “are dwelling places”.
All the references in this passage are to One Church. It is The Only Church Jesus Founded. Clearly, all are smart enough to be saved. All are smart enough to understand and obey and not resist inexorably being drawn to The Roman Catholic Church.
How hard is that to understand? It is so easy to understand that, at Judgment, there is not one human soul who can defend having chosen to support one of 43,000 dead-end denominations by saying “I was not smart enough to understand the difference between singular and plural.”
Here we see that all are smart enough to be saved but only the humble and obedient may get into Heaven. Don’t blow it!
