Posted on 01/11/2018 7:54:48 AM PST by Salvation
I don’t understand the question. He founded His Church on Peter and then we have Apostolic succession.
Why does the Savior need to eat/drink His own flesh and blood?
At the Last Supper, obviously, and then that authority was propagated on to the bishops. You remember bishops, right ... they're the overseers Paul says he appointed "in every town" ... the same ones of whom Ignatius of Antioch wrote 50 years later, when he wrote that to celebrate the Eucharist apart from the authority of the bishop was like worshipping the devil. Remember that?
I remember the catholic (that’s a small
c”) priesthood of all believers.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Priesthood+of+all+believers
YMMV!
Why does He need to be baptized or circumcised or born for that matter. He doesn’t need to do any of that. He’s God. He could have brought us salvation in any way he chose. But he chose to be born in a stable, be baptized, tempted by the devil, be tortured die and be buried. He also chose to give us His Precious Body and Blood and I choose to accept it all!
He did give us a way to have salvation.....believe in Him. It’s so simple most don’t understand.
I do believe in Him. Thanks. God bless.
Why did he need to be baptized?
The Romam Catholic Mass is not faith as it denies the one time sacrifice of the cross.
Have you gone to Mass, preferably on a weekday, not a funeral or wedding?
John the Baptist said to the questioners, I baptized with water. The one who follows me will baptize with water and the Holy Spirit!
I’m sure that is in your Bible.
I’m quite aware of that
No.
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