You seem to not understand or believe in the words of Jesus: “Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 54Whoever eats* my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. 55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. 57Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.b 58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” John 6
You can believe whatever you like, but I believe in the words of Jesus.
“We believe that salvation is a process by which we come closer to God throughout our whole life as we participate in the sacraments and the grace that comes through them. But it is not true that man plays as important a role as God. God the Father planned our salvation, not man. God the Son gained our salvation by his death and resurrection; no one else did these things. And God the Holy Spirit infused the very love of God into our hearts by his presence (cf. Rom. 5:5). This is beyond our human ability. Still, we must cooperate with God’s grace to find eternal happiness with God. If we don’t, we will be cut off from God forever.”
“Because God is holy and, if we’re going to live with God forever, we too must be holy. So our entire life should be a pursuit of the holiness that Christ gained for us by his death on the cross. God desires to put this holiness within us, or as Hebrews 12:10 says, “that we may share his holiness.” That is the ultimate rationale behind the Catholic view of salvation: to share in the holiness of God. Nothing less will save us!”
Read the rest of the article. https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/is-salvation-an-act-or-a-process
***Believing only is a start. It’s like starting a car to go to a distant city.***
So, Jesus only gave us a start by dying for the sins of the past, it is up to us to earn the rest? and how far is enough? Not enough? too much? On the wrong road?
Even Luther told of the fear of “not doing enough” if he had to earn his salvation.
Jesus also said to cut off your hand and pluck out your eye if it causes you to sin. Have you done that?
Context, my freeper friend....context is keep to understanding the Scriptures.
He also told the rich ruler to sell everything he had to be saved....have you done that?
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Also, if partaking in the mass gives life, why is it repeated? Is it limited in power? Does it wear off? If so, do you know when it wears off?
The blood of Jesus Christ doesn’t wear off.
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
1 John 3:21-23 Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. John 6:28-29
Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”