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To: Mrs. Don-o

“I said he made a dumb spelling mistake and needed a dictionary”

Sounds like racial mocking... sounds like you’re saying he’s a dumb guy.

“We call it that: “Sacrifice.” We use an altar. Altars are used for sacrifices. We all know this.”

The only altar for a true Christian is the one in eternity, where Christ presented His blood one time.

Not repeatedly. Never again. Not on earth.

No Apostle used an altar for the Lord’s Supper.

It is pagan in origin. Not from God.


404 posted on 06/02/2019 6:42:11 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
No Apostle used an altar for the Lord’s Supper. It is pagan in origin. Not from God.

You do not and cannot offer any evidence in this regard, and it is not proven by simple assertion.

On the contrary, we know that Malachi, the last of the OT prophets, prophesied that in future time the offering of a sacrifice among the Gentiles which would be pleasing to the Lord:

Malachi 1:11
My Name will be great among the Gentiles (nations), from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to Me, because My Name will be great among the nations," says the LORD Almighty.

It's pretty obvious he's prophesying pure, acceptable offering all over the Gentile world which will be pleasing to Him.

The only truly acceptable and pure offering is the One Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. That sacrifice is now spread throughout the Gentile world, from where the sun rises to where it sets, in every place" --- this once-and-for-all sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Himself.

If you think it's not that, then tell me what pure and acceptable sacrifice is now offered all over the Gentile world, with incense, where His Name is great among the nations.

And sacrifice means an altar, as the man said.

Paul told the Corinthians that the Lord's Supper IS the Body and Blood of Christ, and that those who receive it wrongfully, not recognizing the Body, incur severe guilt: blood-guilt. They are guilty of the Blood of the Lord.

The earliest post-Biblical, historic account we have of the Mass is in the writings of St. Justin, Martyr(LINK) whih clearly show the Eucharistic realism of the Body and Blood of the Lord being present and not ordinary food.

The earliest house church of which we have archaeological evidence, the ancient 3rd century church at Dura Europos (in what is now western Syria) shows the priest or bishop conducting a liturgy (facing east) at an altar against the east wall.

Much earlier than that, though, we know that the Christians of Rome who gathered to celebrate the Liturgy in the Catacombs of Priscilla, used the stone slabs which covered the wall-niche graves, as altars. They literally said Mass upon the tombs of the martyrs.

This would have been in Apostolic times. The First Martyrs of the Church of Rome were Christians martyred in the city of Rome during Nero's persecution in 64. The event is recorded by both Tacitus and Pope Clement I, among others.

414 posted on 06/02/2019 7:27:24 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("If you love Me, keep my commandments." - John 14:15)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

+1


417 posted on 06/02/2019 7:56:15 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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