Not a compelling witness at all...Don't you guys pay attention to the words that are presented to you???
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.
Washed with the washing??? Regeneration is the washing...Didn't Justin read the bible???
but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God
Jesus Christ IS the Word of God...Jesus was God manifest in the flesh...
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
Again, there's the 14th Century word used in the 2nd Century...
We Christians are not looking for nourishment of our flesh and blood...I get that from a slice of meatloaf and an apple...
have thus delivered unto us what was enjoined upon them; that Jesus took bread, and when He had given thanks, said, “This do ye in remembrance of Me, this is My body;
1Co 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Since most Catholic don't read scripture, they wouldn't know that Justin seriously misquoted scripture here...Why would Justin do that???
Jesus did not pray and say, 'do this in remembrance of me'...Jesus said EAT, and do this in remembrance of me...Little odd, wouldn't you say???
Which the wicked devils have imitated in the mysteries of Mithras, commanding the same thing to be done. For, that bread and a cup of water are placed with certain incantations in the mystic rites of one who is being initiated, you either know or can learn.
Uh, the Roman Mithras sun god worship goes back to at least 1 BC...So who copied from who???
I don't think I'd put much stock at all in what Justin Martyr ever said...
The money quote; it seems to me you are still searching for an authentic Christianity.