Could you enlighten us as to the specific “abuses” taught by the Catholic Church...which most every Christian believed for 1500 years??
The RCC has held believers hostage to their doctrine by threat of excommunication if they did not believe this doctrine. The RCC has held believers hostage by the claim that only a priest has the power to administer communion. When the bible states that all believers are of a royal priesthood.
>>Could you enlighten us as to the specific “abuses” taught by the Catholic Church...which most every Christian believed for 1500 years??<<
And why not? They couldn’t read the Bible so they had to trust a priest. Once people started reading the Bible they looked at some of their own churches teaching and went, “huh?!”
Heck, it happens to this day in ALL churches.
My wife was Catholic most of her life. Her family is as “diehard” Catholic as I have ever seen. The communion is a very simple thing. It is to be done as a reminder of what Christ did and why he did it. It is so simple it should be impossible to muck up and complicate. But the Catholic church did it.
Jesus clearly said in Luke: And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
It is a symbol to be used as a reminder. It’s pretty clear actually. And the bread can be a cracker, and the wine can be grape juice. Symbols are like that.
The cool thing is that our family can do it after every single meal if we so choose.