Posted on 06/19/2015 12:34:31 PM PDT by ebb tide
That’s what you think.
It’s what I KNOW.
All those things that Christ is, are found in Scripture as God revealed it to us.
No. It's what you PRESUME.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
2 Corinthians 5:4-8 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Ephesians 1:13-14 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
He will never leave us or forsake us.
Hebrews 13:5-6 Keep your life afree from love of money, and bbe content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
Revelation 19:11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war.
Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
That's my God and my Savior.
Jesus said.....
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Jesus tells me that if I believe, I'm saved. The priest will tell me that I can't be sure, that if I am, it's the sin of *presumption*.
If you can't trust the words of the very God of the universe, come in the flesh, who can you believe?
Some priest who's out molesting kids?
I'll take Jesus, thankyouverymuch. I know HE can't lie or deceive me.
If you reject the "very God of the Universe" Who comes in the flesh at every Catholic Mass, I don't think you "believe".
I don't believe the Catholic church claims that that is what happens because it's not recorded anywhere either in the form of a command, or even by reference.
Some words that are missing from Scripture.
Catholic
mass
eucharist
host
transubstantiation
*accidents*
Not to mention, the command that it be done every. single. day. in a Catholic mass. Nor is the incantation that the priest speaks to allegedly convert the bread and the wine into flesh and blood found anywhere in Scripture.
Neither Jesus nor the apostles left any instructions on how to perform the ceremony by which this is all to happen. Which way to face, how high to life the host, what words to say, how to store, handle, or pass out the elements, to chew or not to chew, how long it lasts in the body, why it needs to be constantly repeated on a daily basis, etc.
ALL absent from Scripture, not a mention of any of this thing that Catholics call so critically important to salvation.
Nothing. Nada. Zero.
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