So, if I believe the Eucharist is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and you believe It is a symbol – are we both true Christians?
If you believe the Papacy is the Whore of Babylon, and I believe Jesus founded His Church on the rock of Peter – are we both true Christians?
If you believe in just three Sacraments and reject the rest, while I believe all Seven were instituted by Christ and must be accepted as such under pain of mortal sin – are we both true Christians?
Does it matter that the teaching of my Christian denomination directly contradicts yours?
Does Jesus care if we get it right?
How can we both belong to the same Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ when what we believe is mutually contradictory, if not exclusive?
We can — and MUST — love one another, of course, but it does not serve the cause of Truth for either of us to pretend our differences don’t matter or don’t exist. And it would be blasphemy to place those contradictions on the lips of He Who Is Truth itself.
So, what did Jesus say? What did He teach? What are the marks of the ONE TRUE Church He founded? We’ve got to get this right! Why? Because, as Cardinal John Henry Newman put it, the toleration of errors and contrary “Christian” beliefs as though Christ spoke with a forked tongue is a sign of the Antichrist who will manifest himself in a hopelessly fragmented Christianity.
Talking of fragmented Christianity, our Christian Zionist friends tell us the “Messiah” is at hand and will manifest himself in Jerusalem, which is something Saints Robert Bellarmine and Jerome warned would be the harbinger not of Messiah but of Antichrist.
So now what? One thing is for sure: something is happening and something – or someone – is coming. Powerful Children of Darkness here and in Israel look to the Bible to justify genocide in the Holy Land, proving once again that even the Devil sometimes quotes scripture.
