"A Little Bread and Wine Does No Harm..."

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[Mrs. Don-o]

There's the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. The ritual prescriptions of the Old Covenant have passed away. Including (inter alia) the prohibition on eating blood. Unless you go to an Evangelical Kosher slaughterhouse for your burgers.

Jesus' listeners knew exactly what he was talking about. He was telling them to do something that seemed to their ears so depraved it's beyond expressing: eat the body and drink the blood of a man. Anyone who says that isn't profoundly shocking,doesn't get the point. Why do you think they left him?

Why do you think he didn't call them back? "Stop! It's a metaphor --- a metaphor, you meatheads!"

It's THEIR fleshiness, their "meatheadedness," that avails nothing. His Flesh avails everything.

[Mrs. Don-o]

This passage refers to flesh--- their flesh --- availing nothing. Their unspiritual attitudes. HIS flesh, as he just repeated--- for was it six times in one chapter? --- is to be eaten, and His blood drunk, for our well-being and redemption.

It's amazing how, in one line, you have Him invalidate His own words in the whole preceding Chapter Six.

It's like He gave this whole stunning, crisis-fraught, eloquent Eucharistic exposition, and then ends it with, "... but seriously, haha, c'mon guys, not really."

[Mrs. Don-o]

Amen.

[Mrs. Don-o]

He also said that if you believed in Him, you'd live forever.

That's why all the Christians who ever lived are still walking around on this earth, and draining our Social Security System, right? Aha! YOOOOOOoooouuuu!

[Mrs. Don-o]

They crucify Him every mass, trampling underfoot the blood of Christ.

Why do you keep saying this, when you know, yourself, that it's not true?

[dangus]

Excellent article; thanks.

[johngrace]

Yes! Also we need to be reminded what the word Amen really means we forget because we say it too often without understanding it not only to end a prayer only. Amen equals “ So Be It. “ So Chrst is declaring without a doubt it is real in IMHO.

[Running On Empty]

Thank you.

[Running On Empty]

Thank you.

[Running On Empty]

Thank you.

[ebb tide]

It's not an unbloody remembrance (that's for Protestants).

It's an unbloody sacrifice. But that's been obscured by the New Mass, so I can understand your confusion.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yo're welcome x3.

Alleluia x40. For Easter!

[LurkingSince'98]

“They crucify Him every mass, trampling underfoot the blood of Christ.”

The new and improved metmom “blood libel” of Catholics....

[Dutchboy88]

"It's on again, off again salvation, which this passage condemns."

Yes, this is the tragedy of the "ceremonial execution".

[Biggirl]

I see the Catholic bashing starting up again.

[BlatherNaut]

So now it’s figurative when it suits the church? That is very poor hermeneutics.

Romans 8 is no more figurative than John 6:53, unless one considers the Spirit to be a metaphorical construct.

[BlatherNaut]

It’s the Free Republic Religious Debate Club. Come one, come all. :)

[Dutchboy88]

"Your not looking at scripture very well."

Well, if you mean "'You're' not looking at Scripture very well." I understand your claim. I don't agree with your claim, but I understand it. The question is, where does the Scripture tell you to perform the ceremony you are speaking of. The passage to which you refer has nothing at all to do with your ceremony.

Very carefully, notice...Jesus did not say, "This is my flesh and blood and here is what I mean: I want the Roman organization to appoint a guy that will take some ordinary bread and wine and say something over them and those words will make my actual body and blood come 'under the appearance of bread and wine' and by doing this you will be 'reliving' my actual sacrifice. This will be the same sacrifice I have not yet done, but will do soon, nevertheless go ahead and do this even though it has not happened in reality, yet." When you find this passage, let us all know and we'll convert. Until then, please go back and read the text more carefully.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

The flesh is NO HELP AT ALL.

Then I guess his sacrificing his flesh on the cross was no help at all either.

[Dutchboy88]

"The Mass is an unbloody remembrance."

If it is just a "remembrance", then why does your organization claim to "transubstantiate" the "elements" into the body and blood?