Who gets into Heaven? St. John tells us there are three steps to Heaven. Protestants have taken two and a half. 1 John 5: 5-13:
“Beloved, Who indeed is the victor over the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”
Protestants have taken “Step One” to being among “the victor(s) over the world”. They are blessed to think logically enough to to be among those who believe “that Jesus is the Son of God”!
That is “Step One”.
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Step Two:
In his next sentence, St. John tells us how important “water” is. “This is the one who came through water and Blood, Jesus Christ, not by water alone, but by water and Blood.” Protestants have “the water” of Baptism!
They have been blessed by water and The Spirit’s purifying Word: “I Baptize you in The Name of The Father and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit.”!
Protestants have taken “Step Two”.
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Step Three:
“Blood”. “Blood” has two meanings.
A. “Blood” refers to The Precious Blood of Jesus that was shed at Calvary. He shed His Blood when He was scourged. He shed His Blood when the “crown of thorns” was driven through the tender skin of His scalp. He shed His Blood when nails were driven through His Holy Body.
Protestants understand that. They are part-way up Step Three!
B. “Blood” also refers to the Clear Call to Catholic Communion that Jesus repeated 14 times: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” By The Miracle of Transubstantiation, The Actual Body and Blood of Jesus are provided at every Catholic Mass.
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In his next sentence, St. John ties The Holy Spirit, Water, and Blood together.
“The Spirit is the one who testifies, and the Spirit is truth. So there are three who testify, the Spirit, the water, and the Blood, and the three are of one accord.”
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We must receive “the Spirit, the water, and the Blood”. We must not protest against the need to take those three steps. We know that by St. John’s concluding sentence:
“If we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is surely greater.”
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