Oh boy, I have a ’ real realstionship ’ with my Savior. Is it because or through the Holy Eucharest, absoultely not. I know where I’m going when I die…do you?
You have a real relationship with Jesus Christ? What Jesus? Remember there is only one Lord, one faith (Eph 4:3-6) one fold and one shephard (Jn 10:16). One faith handed down by Apostolic Tradition to which St. Paul commands we keep (1 Cor 11:2) “Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught”… your at risk of losing your own salvation by accepting a different teaching and faith (1 Cor 15:1-2) being saved if you hold fast to the word I preached.
St. Athanasius (360 AD): “Let us note that the very tradition, teaching, and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginning, which the Lord gave, was preached by the Apostles, and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was the Church founded; and if anyone departs from this, he neither is nor any longer ought to be called a Christian…” Four Letters to Serapion of Thmius 1, 28.
I know where I’m going when I die…do you?
Your assurance of salvation comes from a different teaching and faith other than that one which the Lord gave. Like many other Protestant doctrines, this teaching was unheard of before the 1500’s.
Mt 24:13 tells us that we must “persevere to the end” in order to be saved. St. Paul says the same thing in 2 Tim 2:12: that we must hold out to the end if we want to rein with Christ. In Rom 11:22, Christains are warned that they will be cut off if they don’t persevere in the kindness of God. Hebrews 6:4-6 describes people who are sharers in the Holy Spirit (born-again Christians) but then fall away from God.
Your assurance of salvation is not a teaching of St. Paul or any Apostle at that. St. Paul teaches we must die in sanctifying grace in order to be saved. Any mortal sin leads to a loss of santifying grace and the risk of eternal damnation if we should die in this state.
Remember St. Paul’s advice: “work out your salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil 2:12). Who should have more assurance of salvation than St. Paul? Yet he says: “I drive my body and train it, for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be disqualified” (1 Cor 9"27). Scripture is very clear: Christians can lose their salvation.
Again I say, your at risk of losing your own salvation by accepting a different teaching and faith other then that which was given to us by St. Paul and the Apostles (1 Cor 15:1-2) saved if you hold fast to the word I preached.
Come to know Christ and enter in with Him a real relationship as the Apostles knew him and as the early martyrs knew him, accept Jesus Christ in that one teaching and one faith, (Eph 4:4) one body, one Spirit, called to one hope. “Wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.”
St. Ignatius of Antioch (110 AD)
God Bless