Posted on 01/31/2019 6:59:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Allow me to second what metmom just posted.
I strongly recommend the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod if you’re searching for a faithful Christian church.
LOL...I started to write that but I erased it. You and I are so on the same page with this.
I wonder that those priests don’t meet the end of the guy in Raider’s of the Lost Ark when he drank from the wrong chalice.
The sacrament is the LORD! HE is the one who comes to you, for your healing, for strength, for consolation. You need Him!
This is my body... this is my blood of the new covenant (Mark 14:22-24)
I am with you always to the end of the world. (Mt 28:18-20)
The time is just too urgent for overlooking the Lord's most important teachings. Maranatha!
The blood was to be poured out for the atonement, which Jesus' was.
Jesus did not come to break the Law but to fulfill it, and that He could not have done is He meant that they were to literally consume blood.
He was speaking figuratively, and He stated as such. If it was blood and He drank His own blood, which had not been shed yet, then He would have sinned and disqualified Himself from being the perfect, sinless sacrifice.
At the Last Supper, Jesus Himself stated that it was wine He/they were drinking.
Don't eat the blood, the life is in the blood
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.
Jesus is not a wheat wafer.
He lives in us through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, not because we eat Him.
The SPIRIT gives life, the flesh is no help at all. IOW, eating Jesus physically does not impart spiritual life, which is only given through the Spirit.
Jesus is not a wheat wafer.
He lives in us through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, not because we eat Him.
The SPIRIT gives life, the flesh is no help at all. IOW, eating Jesus physically does not impart spiritual life, which is only given through the Spirit.
So, you’ll continue to stand before or kneel before a disgusting pervert that supports infanticide and receive Holy Communion from him? Just how holy do you believe it is at that point? How can an unholy man who calls himself a priest/bishop/cardinal create anything holy? Has he not given up his ability to consecrate anything?
It will show us if Cuomo really is the Catholic that he claims to be. Remember, he has a concubine. I don’t believe that he is even a practicing Catholic.
Fortunately, my priest is very holy, as God intended. You have no right to paint all priests bad. And my kneeling is to Christ. Yes, despite all your anger, a validly ordained priest, despite his sins, can consecrate. God is that humble.
Has your priest openly chastised or called out Bishop Dolan for not excommunicating Andrew Cuomo for his stance on infanticide. If not, then he's as guilty as Dolan! Good priests will do whatever they have to do to protect the Church and the flock from the "bad apples". I don't see that happening. If the Pastor of my church didn't loudly stick up for the most innocent among us I'd leave and tell all that would listen why I left. If the priests are not willing to put it all on the line to protect babies in the womb, by rebuking those above them then they aren't holy or godly. They are serving Satan NOT God by allowing evil to take over the church.
After all, it’s not like he’s some Biblical literalist or something.
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