Christian Unapologetics

For he that shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him the Son of man shall be ashamed

Do you believe in Scriptures as the inerrant inspired word of God?

Adam and Eve actually existed, one man and one woman. Noah was actually historically saved from the flood. All of the historical facts of the bible are actual facts, not inspired poetry for feel-goody atheists with no belief in God, heaven, hell, morals, anything else.

Are you tired of tolerating sin in all of its forms?

The world today is full of wickedness: adultery, murder, lies, pride, you name it; God is calling you to repent while there's still time

Now is the time to get serious with your faith!

Not all who say: Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven. What did Christ say but "whoever loves me will keep my commandments" (John 14:23) And what are His commandments? The Ten Commandments for one. The God who gave Moses the Ten Commandments is the same God in the New Testament.
Thou shalt have no other gods besides Him
Thou shalt not use the name of the Lord thy God in vain
Thou shalt keep holy the Sabbath
Honor thy Father and Mother
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not commit adultery
Thou shalt not bear false witness
Thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods
And what's more He says whoever so much as looks upon a woman with lust commits adultery with her in his heart (Matt 5:28) and if you say to your brother "raca" or "you fool" you sin against the fifth commandment. (Matt 5:22) Let your yes be yes and your no be no

The way to heaven is not for the timid

Christ sacrificed Himself, His body and soul, His Godhead, for His Church. If you do not deny yourself, take up your cross daily, and follow Him, you are not worthy of the kingdom of God. (Luke 9)

Being a true Christian is the same now as it was then

If we study Christianity from it's inception, you'll realize the Christians in the first few centuries were not like most of the people claiming to be Christian today. Read this excerpt from a certain Cyprian who was born in Carthage over 1800 years ago, only a hundred years from the time of the apostles:

"If any one consider and examine these things, there is no need for lengthened discussion and arguments. There is easy proof for faith in a short summary of the truth. The Lord speaks to Peter, saying, “I say unto thee, that thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound also in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” And again to the same He says, after His resurrection, “Feed my sheep.” And although to all the apostles, after His resurrection, He gives an equal power, and says, “As the Father hath sent me, even so send I you: Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they shall be remitted unto him; and whose soever sins ye retain, they shall be retained;” yet, that He might set forth unity, He arranged by His authority the origin of that unity, as beginning from one. Assuredly the rest of the apostles were also the same as was Peter, endowed with a like partnership both of honour and power; but the beginning proceeds from unity. Which one Church, also, the Holy Spirit in the Song of Songs designated in the person of our Lord, and says, “My dove, my spotless one, is but one. She is the only one of her mother, elect of her that bare her.” Does he who does not hold this unity of the Church think that he holds the faith? Does he who strives against and resists the Church trust that he is in the Church, when moreover the blessed Apostle Paul teaches the same thing, and sets forth the sacrament of unity, saying, “There is one body and one spirit, one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God?”

Notice he says "Does he who does not hold this unity of the Church think that he hold the faith?". The Christians in the past never thought that "we're all working together to get to heaven, you Jehovah witness, me Baptist, him Evangelical". No, you are either part of the one true faith or you are not. Choose carefully

Next you'll see he says Peter was chosen first to bind and remit sins and from his pre-eminence follows the unity of the Church.

He also says to Peter "Feed my sheep". Now Christ's Church was not to be fed only during the lifespan of Peter, but until He comes again. There is only one Church that fits this description. And I think the good reader knows the answer whether he wishes to admit it or not. There is only one Church that has ministers who bind and remit sins, one Church who feeds Christ's flock around the world for the Apostles did truly "Go and make disciples of all nations". One church in unity around the successor of St. Peter and that Church calls itself Catholic.

Be not decieved by other so-called Christians who flatter you with stories that Christ's Church is everywhere and nowhere and everything you need from God you will obtain by yourself with no clergy, with no source but your own knowledge. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. God did not command for no reason the rituals, and rites of the Jewish people, their feast days, their High Priesthood, their sacrifices. The whole old testament was a figure of what was to come in the new, when God became man, and died, for our sins. Their sabbath day became our Sunday. Their High priest became our Pope. Their passover was just a figure of Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross and in the Holy Eucharist of the Mass. And only those who kept the passover and painted their lintel with the blood of the lamb were spared from the Destroying Angel that night in Egypt. God did not command the Jews all these things for nothing.

And many people will think to this, but I know so-and-so who's a good person and he's not catholic. Or I know so-and-so priest who did such-and-such sin. But those arguments have no basis in reason. For the former, let us go back to Cyprian of Carthage who said:
"He [the devil] has invented heresies and schisms, whereby he might subvert the faith, might corrupt the truth, might divide the unity. Those whom he cannot keep in the darkness of the old way, he circumvents and deceives by the error of a new way. He snatches men from the Church itself; and while they seem to themselves to have already approached to the light, and to have escaped the night of the world, he pours over them again, in their unconsciousness, new darkness; so that, although they do not stand firm with the Gospel of Christ, and with the observation and law of Christ, they still call themselves Christians, and, walking in darkness, they think that they have the light, while the adversary is flattering and deceiving, who, according to the apostle’s word, transforms himself into an angel of light, and equips his ministers as if they were the ministers of righteousness, who maintain night instead of day, death for salvation, despair under the offer of hope, perfidy under the pretext of faith, antichrist under the name of Christ; so that, while they feign things like the truth, they make void the truth by their subtlety This happens, beloved brethren, so long as we do not return to the source of truth, as we do not seek the head nor keep the teaching of the heavenly Master."

Those people if they are good, are decieved who receive the same words pronounced against the Samaritan woman "You worship what you do not know, we worship what we know for salvation is from the Jews"(John 4:22). Salvation is from the Catholics. Do not be decieved by the devil while still calling yourself Christian.

To the latter who by the bad example of clergy are scandalized, I must say that is the same madness as to have renounced Christ for having met Judas. And it must come as no surprise that if at the crucifixion the Jewish High Priest took part, then why is it unbelievable for God's ministers now to do evil. But they still have authority, authority they received from the hands of the apostles, in unbroken succession since the time Christ pronounced those word "You are Peter..." and the words of St. Paul come to mind, "Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."(Rom 13:2).

Lastly, I ask you what do you make of the words in the 6th Chapter of St John, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you" Our Saviour gave us this command, or ultimatum rather. and some people will try to seduce you by saying He only meant the bread of his words or symbolically or anything else, but the bible is clear on this part. "For my flesh is true meat and my blood is true drink" and as proof that He meant it literally the Scripture adds "After this many of his disciples went back; and walked no more with Him" for they said "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" and "This saying is hard".

This talk of the Eucharist does not end in John, It's in Matthew and Mark and Luke and Corinthians. In the Saints of Early Christendom

Justin Marytr
"And this food is called among us Eucharistia [the Eucharist], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined. For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh"

Irenaeus Born 130ad
"Then, again, how can they say that the flesh, which is nourished with the body of the Lord and with His blood, goes to corruption, and does not partake of life? Let them, therefore, either alter their opinion, or cease from offering the things just mentioned. But our opinion is in accordance with the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn establishes our opinion. For we offer to Him His own, announcing consistently the fellowship and union of the flesh and Spirit. For as the bread, which is produced from the earth, when it receives the invocation of God, is no longer common bread, but the Eucharist, consisting of two realities, earthly and heavenly; so also our bodies, when they receive the Eucharist, are no longer corruptible, having the hope of the resurrection to eternity."

"...as a corn of wheat falling into the earth and becoming decomposed, rises with manifold increase by the Spirit of God, who contains all things, and then, through the wisdom of God, serves for the use of men, and having received the Word of God, becomes the Eucharist, which is the body and blood of Christ..."

The Same Cyprian on many accounts but for one
"that, mindful of the Eucharist, the hand which has received the Lord’s body may embrace the Lord Himself"

And in the Catechism of the Catholic Church "the eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life"

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