The simplest key to Catholicism is in John 15:14. Jesus is very clear. “If you obey My commands you are My friends.”
The simplest key to Catholicism opens the door to having Jesus think of us as His “friend”.
“If you obey My commands you are My friends.” is easy to understand. A friend is a friend.
It can be good to have a powerful friend. No one is more powerful than Jesus. He will be The Judge of every human soul. He will send some souls to the eternal joys of Heaven and others to the unending pains of hell. That is power!
Our future judge has given us a key piece of advice: “If you obey My commands you are My friends.”
All the more reason to ask, what are His commands?” Watch carefully! The stairway gets a little steeper and narrower. Others have gotten through, so we can, too.
An invisible “all” is the key to understanding who Jesus thinks is a friend. Insert the invisible “all”: “If you obey (‘all’) My Commands you are My friends.”
We insert “all” to Because He did not say “If you obey (some of) My Commands you are My friends.“ Got that? If not, read it again. It is the professional Protestants’ most profound problem.
Every knowledgeable Protestant knows that one of Jesus’ most repeated instructions, John 6:53, is “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.” His clear call to Catholic Communion is obeyed by those want to “have life in” them. How can those who disobey be among His “friends”?
Professional Protestants know that Jesus turned bread and wine into His Body and Blood at The Last Supper. They also know that Catholic priests are in a living link with the Apostles whom Jesus ordained.
As long as they knowingly choose to stay apart from The Only Church Jesus Founded, they cannot “have life in” them. Can they be among His “friends”?
We must pray that all may see the invisible “all” in “If you obey (all) My commands you are My friends“. It enough some enter The Only Church Jesus Founded and join their prayers in one body with ours, that abortion, invasion, and other evils may be stopped.
Being divided into tens of thousands of vain, holier-than-thou schisms simply isn’t working. Vanity is killing us.
