When Jesus said, “This is My Body ... this is My blood.” He meant exactly what He said. Many apostles ran away. They were scared. They had no faith in the Lord. You don’t think they took him at his word? Of courses they did, that’s why they left him. They thought he was crazy. Jesus flatly said the bread and the wine were His body; He meant it. The minute he said this they became his body and blood. The ones that believed him stayed. “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day”. The ones with no faith took off and certainly will not be raised up on the last day. Jesus told us exactly what to do, AND ALL CHRISTIANS took Him at His word until 500 years ago when heretic broke His Church apart.
To this very day there are millions more Christians that still believe Him 2,000 years after He said these words, than those that ignore His Commandment. Fallen away Catholics are exactly like those that took off because they had no faith in Him.
Genesis 9:4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life , that is, its blood.
Leviticus 3:17 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”
Leviticus 7:26-27 Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”
Leviticus 17:10-14 “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.
“Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.
Leviticus 19:26 “You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.
Deuteronomy 12:16 Only you shall not eat the blood ; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 12:23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life , and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Deuteronomy 15:23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
Acts 15:12-29 And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,
“‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things known from of old.’
Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”
Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers, with the following letter:
“The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
Matthew 26:29 I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
Mark 14:25 Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
Luke 22:18 For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Unbloody sacrifice
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P41.HTM
1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: "The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different." "In this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner."188
Deuteronomy 12:16 Only you shall not eat the blood ; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
When Christ died, His blood was poured out as was required by the law.
Hebrews 9:22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Since without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins, a bloodless sacrifice is a useless one. It cannot atone for sin.
Jesus commanded His disciples to drink the cup. Catholics claim that doing so is partaking of the literal body and blood of Himself. However, if the mass is an unbloody sacrifice, where does the blood for the cup come from?
Which body of Christ is the priest sacrificing in the mass? The old one that walked this earth?
Or the new resurrected and glorified one?
The Bible is very clear that without the shedding of blood there can be no remission of sin. (Hebrews 9:22)
“For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” (Leviticus 17:11)
Despite the clear teaching of Scripture, Rome has an “unbloody sacrifice.” They say it’s a propitiatory sacrifice, but the Bible says without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. So not only is it unnecessary to sacrifice Christ again and again, but an unbloody sacrifice is worthless to make atonement for sin. An unbloody sacrifice is no sacrifice at all! (By .45 Long Colt)
Thanks for putting it so succinctly LC.
My faith is in HIM, not in eating Him according to church ordinance.
JESUS saves me.
Catholicism doesn’t save anyone.
Mind reading Jesus IS allowed on FR.
"You brood of VIPERS!"
Leviticus 3:17 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”
We see there seems to be a problem of agreement between the passage in Leviticus and the passage in John where Jesus spoke of His Flesh and Blood. Rather than try to find the straight path to discover how both can be true, since the Bible is God's Word for us and thus will not have double-minded messages for God is not like a man that He should change His mind on a commandment, rather than find the path which has both passages speaking truth, catholiciism instead empowers its demonically inspired institution by taking one passage over the previous passage which contains the word 'forever'!
Yes, the Mass as practiced in catholic hearts is blasphemous since it insults the very teaching Jesus Himself gave in numerous places and draws adherents into this insult by practicing the pagan cannibalism belief rather than THE REMEBRANCE Jesus established with the Passover bread and wine.
Jesus would not violate or cancel the FOREVER decree in Leviticus with His Disciples on the night before He was to sacrifice Himself and pour out His blood for us. His blood was taken into the Holy of Holies in Heaven, as Paul instructed us as he learned from The Lord directly. So His blood was spread upon the Mercy Seat IN HEAVEN, to cover the laws of sin and death. It is not brought down from Heaven by some earthy priest of catholiciism to be continually sacrificed on a catholic mass altar for people to ingest through their mouths. Paul settled that issue in Hebrews and Romans, the letters where the doctrines of Christianity are enumerated for our edification. Jesus shed His blood ONCE for ALL, forever and sat down in the Holy Place a priest forever, our High Priest alive forever more.
Perhaps it has not occurred to you yet, but Jesus did not cancel the Passover and establish the Bread and wine in its place, He opened greater depth to the same truth taught with the Passover and Passover Seder. As such, we know He would not be instructing His Disciples to violate the Law laid down in Leviticus.
The catholic church would be exposed as fraudulent if they corrected this gross insult to The Grace of God in Christ, and in so doing expose the TRUTH that the leader of catholiciism is satan, not Christ. So the platoon of apologists must at all cost of reason and truth never allow their minds to open to the Truth of what The Word of God declares regarding the brewad and wine Passover Seder celebrated with His Disciples the night before He sacrificed Himself ONCE, FOR ALL, Forever.