Posted on 11/08/2014 8:35:21 PM PST by walkinginthedesert
From the article...” each Mass that we attend, it is as if Christ’s blood was being shed again”.....
How sad is that! They’ve fully lost sight that Jesus’s blood was shed “Once” for all...and so much of their teaching is old testament rituals twisted to fit their dogma and teachings of men....The blood of animals had to be shed over and over, but the blood of Jesus was shed “only one time”....”It is finished!”
No wonder they struggle with what it is to be reconciled to God and the New Covenant principles and teachings.....as is written:...... Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature...old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.......2 Corinthians 5:17
What they are doing in Mass is definitely ‘a perversion’ of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the Bible teaches us. This Mass Ritual proclaims then that Jesus’s blood was not sufficient.
Every time you guys see bread or wine, you think Eucharist...Just like when you see water, you thing baptize...And when you see baptize, you see water...
Did Melchisedek also say, 'this is my body and blood', eat it in remembrance of me as a sacrifice since there is no past, present or future???
....” By God’s grace, I was rescued from that nonsense, but not without considerable pain”....
I believe you...there are many stories I could share of those who have been involved with everything from cults to false religions and those of Hinduism, New Age, and clubs/organizations who have various ‘rituals’ they involve themselves in, who do not come away from these unscathed.
The people described in that passage are merely professing Christians who are not actually saved, they are self-deceived hypocrites who do not have true saving faith to begin with.
So many say I believe in Jesus, what they mean is they believe He existed and is a great teacher and a good man, but not that He is who Christians ,and the Bible, claim He said He is.
I have seen and heard many are simply weary of all the religious activities, the rituals they do; all the do’s and don’ts they have to obey to please God. .....Jesus offer’s to them...
.... “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matt 11:28-30)
Try dealing with your average lay Catholic.
They don’t get it even is one person in the past did.
For the last 2,000 years Christians have participated in the Eucharist. Today, there are over a billion and half Christians worldwide that participate in this ancient sacrament. This number dwarfs the number of PROTESTants that do not believe in the words of Jesus Christ, and indeed belittle those that have been practicing the exact same sacrament that the earliest Church fathers practiced. The decision is in. The false religion of PROTESTism loses, and loses big.
But what's being discussed is not God's vantage point.
It's the claim that the Catholic church is participating in the death of Jesus every time they perform the mass. It can't be because that happened 2,000 years ago and while God is transcendent in regard to time, we're not.
And even if God *sees* all time as presence before Him, does not go to follow that it is reality happening for eternity in heaven.
Job security.
2000 years ago Jesus Christ was in His teens.
If the Eucharist was central to Christianity, then why no emphasis mentioned in the ACTS of the Apostles?
Oh for crying out loud..here you go again about the years catholics have been around....as if that somehow legitimizes their twisted rituals..... you might as well include that history also shows the Catholic Church has tortured and murdered hundreds of thousands of people around the world for over 1500 years....so your ‘numbers’ mean nothing but numbers.
Saying over a billion and half people practice this ritual is no different then Hindu’s and Buddist’s , or Muslims claiming they’ve practiced their’s.
As for Protestants....well there was the Reformation and grateful for that happening... which set the body of Christ back on the path Jesus would have it. So we have gained back the Faith that HE would have us to know and the true gospel message, which in fact became distorted and twisted under the catholic church into something else entirely different then first was delivered to Christians...as did the very membership of the church.
So no...we lost nothing but in fact gained the pleasure of the Father for setting things straight.
...”Job security”....
They should all move to Vatican City since their alligience is to the Pope and it’s a country unto itself as well as their citizenship first and foremost above any country they reside in.
Psalm 40:5-6
Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to count. Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
is what?
I'll bet it was NOT a sliver of dried out wafer!
Why can't CATHOLICS do THIS???
A vast multitude of Protestants are swinging the OPPOSITE way on the pendulum: all LOVE! and no WRATH!!!
I thought this is a CATHOLIC thread: not a MORMON one...
We Protestants have modified what the Catholics started.
How did a YEARLY meal of rememberence of GOD’s provision and safety, get turned into what we do today?
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
That page of the letter got lost.
Acts 15
Is there a difference???
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