All the people in all the schisms agree with The Catholic Church: those who choose to separate themselves from Jesus in this life are separated from Him for eternity.
Jesus has allowed another division among those who say they are Christians. Those who choose to obey only His “easy instructions” separate themselves from those who obey more fully.
All who identify themselves as “Christians”, for instance, believe we should pray according to Jesus’ instructions: “Our Father Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.”
All Christians embrace those “easy instructions” from Jesus. At the same time, they reject other things Jesus told us to do.
One of the “hard instructions” is provided by John 6: 53. “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” The only way to obey that is to receive Catholic Communion. Catholic priests ordained in a living link with Jesus’ original Ordination of The Apostles have been empowered to transform bread and wine into Christ’s Body and Blood. They are Catholic.
Jesus provided Transubstantiation at The First Mass, around which The Last Supper was centered. His priests continue to transform bread and wine into Christ’s Body and Blood. It is an ongoing miracle that dared not be deeply contemplated by those who disobey His “hard instructions”.
Our most important question: Do I choose to obey His “hard instruction”: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My blood you do not have life in you.”? What are the results of saying “Jesus is God”, and then disobeying Him?
The contradiction caused by saying “I believe in Jesus, but I am not going to obey some of His instructions.” is a willful disobedience. It causes short-circuits in the neural connections of the brain. The inevitable result: Little dead places in the brain.
Every time we say “I believe Jesus is my Savior, but I don’t believe I have to do what He says.” we are trying to be both be a believer and a non-believer. We can’t be two things at once. Every time that contradiction is repeated, more short circuits occur. Each contradiction leaves additional: Little dead places in the brain.
We can trace the decline in rational thinking as we watch the 400 year slide from Catholic to Lutheran to one of the Reformed groups to some later splinter that has fragmented into one of the 40,000 tiny denominations begun by one of the Pastors Bob spewing self-serving sanctimoniousness in an evangelical tent or TV station.
It’s impossible for it not to be true: The contradiction between claiming to be Christian while disobeying some of Christ’s instructions must cause: Little dead places in the brain.
There is a fascinating aspect: Those Christians who do not know of Christ’s command “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” may spend their lives being reasonably good Christians. They know nothing of The Church Jesus Founded or of its connection to The Catholic Mass today.
Little dead places in the brain occur only in vain minds that ignore, or try to contradict, the “hard instructions”. From this point of view, it is astonishing, but undeniable, that ignorance is bliss.
