Christians Should Take a Look at Themselves.

 Are you following the true Jesus?     Or is there a true Jesus?    I remember at a Ecumenical Gathering last year on behalf of Ecumenism I was handing out a leaflet which directed people, if they were interested in Christianity, to talk it over with some people in a tent who would look at your preferences and decide what kind of Christianity suited you, and what Church you should attend.   Now there are all kinds of Christians, some are described as very fundamental and take Jesus too seriously.  They do not believe in 'grey areas' when it comes to sin, and try to follow Jesus on matters such as Divorce and Adultery, since they believe that that is how they show their love for Jesus.  "If you love me keep my commandments".    Others see the Jesus of compassion.   The man who is all loving and merciful and merely guides us how to live our lives, but leaves it to us to make our mistakes as long as we worship Him and are full of love for others.

I will not judge any individual and claim they are bad, bad, people, but I do have a right to ask if this kind of approach to his Gospel, is what Jesus intended.

Then there are the Sacraments and the Holy Mass.   When I started reading about the Early Church,I found that from the very beginning, from the time of the Apostles, there was the Consecration of Bread  and Wine being offered in Sacrifice in response to Malachi 1:10, and there was never any Council in the Apostolic Churches which even debated or questioned the issue.    And that Christians ate the flesh of Jesus was widely proclaimed from the beginning.   Since I started reading the Early Fathers I have written blog after blog on this.   Yet the question is ignored both by Protestants and Modernists Catholics.   

Perhaps instead of asking questions on how we appear to the world, and what we must do to attract people, we should instead be quite clear that our Church is Catholic, it has taught the truths that Christ taught from the beginning, and our faith is not based just on the Bible but on the teachings of the Early Church.    In other words we should start preaching that the Catholic Faith is not based just on the bible, for it was the Catholic Church that gave the Bible authority, it is based on tradition, that is the teachings of the Early Fathers.   No Synod can dismiss these facts, if the Synod is built on honesty and not the false teachings of the false Teachers and Prophets.   

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