“FATHER…this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.”1 “God our Savior desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”2 “There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved”3 the name of JESUS.
Catechism of the Catholic Church – very first words
1 Jn 17:3. 2 1 Tim 2:3-4. 3 Acts 4:12.
Some years back I was blogging regularly about the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
As a Protestant.
A Protestant offended by what other Protestants were saying about Catholics. (I will share more about that another time.)
I blogged for at least two years, going through the Catechism paragraph by paragraph. Then I stopped (I can’t remember why) and everything sat dormant. I finally took it offline and forgot about it.
About a month ago I remembered it and read through the first sixty entries. I will be sharing some of them here over the next few months. I think it’s worth it, for me and for you.
Why, you might ask. Who cares about the doctrinal divisions between Catholics and Protestants? Really, with all the division in our world, why pay attention to that one?
One reason tops them all: Jesus begged the Father that we might be one as they are one.
And here we are, divided as can be.
For His sake, can we not try to understand each other and help each other along the narrow path, often difficult to find, that leads to Him, to life itself? Maybe this little exercise will help us.
That’s why.
Grace and peace to you…
dw
(It just so happens the first sentence in the quote above is, for me, the most important verse in scripture and is the origin of a A Prayer for Eternal Life, one of the most-visited posts here.)
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