“Catholicism teaches you to get to third base, rarely teaching what you need to get to heaven. Many Romans come to fully trust Christ apart from works anyway. My father, for instance.
I’ve observed that Roman Catholics make great, joyful Christians when the light dawns about how to be sure of salvation.”
And you and your dad are poorer for rejecting the Eucharist, the gift of Christ Himself which you reject, as did Judas. I suggest you read John 6. “Unless you EAT MY FLESH and DRINK MY BLOOD you have no life within you.” Does your church do that? It’s not a symbol. It’s His flesh and blood. Judas split after that. The only way you can be sure you have been saved is when you get to heaven. “not all who say ‘Lord, Lord’ will be saved.” In other words, people can fall away.
**And you and your dad are poorer for rejecting the Eucharist, the gift of Christ Himself which you reject, as did Judas. I suggest you read John 6. “Unless you EAT MY FLESH and DRINK MY BLOOD you have no life within you.” **
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“And you and your dad are poorer for rejecting the Eucharist, the gift of Christ Himself which you reject, as did Judas. I suggest you read John 6. “Unless you EAT MY FLESH and DRINK MY BLOOD you have no life within you.” Does your church do that? It’s not a symbol. It’s His flesh and blood. Judas split after that. The only way you can be sure you have been saved is when you get to heaven. “not all who say ‘Lord, Lord’ will be saved.” In other words, people can fall away.”
1. My father did not reject the eucharist - he trusted Christ alone for salvation.
2. I am not any poorer for obeying Christ’s words and regularly participating in communion as He commanded.
3. Communion is done “in memory of Him”. It is not Him, or memory would be unnecessary.
4. You are simply unschooled in Scripture if you think communion saves you.
5. No one who has come to Christ in saving faith, who is baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body of Christ, who is part of the Bride of Christ falls away. The passage you quote merely teaches that words do no save. Of course they do not.
My observation stands. Catholics who come to saving faith make some of the most amazing Christians.