Can we believe The Bible and not be Catholic? We are all smart enough to connect two dots!
Dot # 1 is John 8:51. “Jesus said to the Jews, ‘Amen, amen I say to you, whoever keeps My word will never see death.'”
All who read that will agree: “keeps” means that we must “obey” His word.
Dot #2 is “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” He said that for the twelfth time in John 6:66. Most of His followers were so upset by His words that they left Him.
He repeated “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you” twice more at The Last Supper. His obedient Disciples became the First Catholic Bishops. Some of them wrote The New Testament. They repeated His “word” on that subject six more times!
We are all smart enough to connect two dots!
Dot 1: “. . . whoever keeps My word will never see death.”
Dot 2: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.”
Anyone can “keep His word” and may “. . eat My Body and drink My Blood . . “ All are free to do so in any of the Catholic Masses following The Last Supper.
What keeps anyone from connecting two dots?
Some are vain. “I have another way to Heaven. You do not need to obey “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” Listen to ME, instead!”
Others are confused by confusers. “Pastor Bob says we should ignore the literal meaning of ‘If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.’ I like Pastor Bob more than I want to obey Jesus!”
