How can Protestants they read a passage like 1 Jn 2:3-11 and avoid the clear call “Be Catholic!” as they read the words? Christ’s most beloved Disciple is as clear as crystal! St. John says “Be Catholic!” 2 times in as many days.
St. John is clearly saying to all who call themselves “Christian”: “Beloved: The way we may be sure that we know Jesus is to keep His commandments.” We who truly love our Protestant neighbors must ask, “Can you deny that one of His clear commandments we must keep is ‘If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.’?”
Everyone can see that is an instruction, a commandment from Jesus. Time after time between John 6:53 and John 6:66, Jesus clearly teaches all who hear His words in every age: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” To make it even clearer, He says those words over and over until those who refuse to seriously consider that Commandment are driven away.
Today, thousands of unborn babies are killed by abortionists every day. Once-Christian nations are too confused to defend themselves from invasion. Sin runs rampant. The flames of hatred are fanned.
Our duty is to remind ourselves and our neighbors of The Bible actual words: “The way we may be sure that we know Jesus is to keep His commandments.” The only way to obey “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” is to become Catholic and receive His Body and Blood. That Holy Food, provided at every Mass since The Last Supper, is the only thing on earth that allows us to overcome the paralyzing confusion that keeps us from defeating evil within and without.
Then, St. John gives us a teaching so clear that even the least intelligent anti-Catholic has no excuse for not understanding: “Whoever says, ‘I know him,’ but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” It is horribly sad to see how perfectly that passage portrays so many Pastors pontificating from the pulpits of their competing, confusing 43,000 Protestant groups.
They will not let themselves see the devil’s deadly, destructive delusion of saying “I know the Lord! I believe in Jesus and The Bible!” even while they disobey His Commandment: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.”
Sadly, they put themselves among those of whom St. John says “Whoever says ‘I know Him’ but does not keep His commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him.” Can the Pastor Bobs understand simple English? They could, but for the tendrils of vanity grown through their minds that keep them from comprehension.
St. John says that, since they do not keep His commandments, they don’t have life in them. That’s sad enough to make one cry. Then, The Bible goes on to say that they are liars. We must wonder, “Are they no more than a chorus of truthless, lifeless zombies chanting ‘I believe in Jesus, but I will not obey Him!’ as they are drawn down the broad path to destruction?”
Then, thankfully, St. John guides all who will listen to the clear road to salvation. St. John says about obedient Catholics who humbly strive to worthily receive His Actual Body and Blood, changed from bread and wine by a priest empowered to do so by The Ordination of The Apostles passed in living link to each Catholic priest of every age:
“But whoever keeps His word, the love of God is truly perfected in him. This is the way we may know that we are in union with Him: whoever claims to abide in Him ought to walk just as He walked.”
Can anyone read that without seeing that anything, within or without, that keeps him or her from becoming Catholic is the eternal enemy of their immortal soul and of the children they may never have?
