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To: caww; maryz; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; ...

Jesus doesn’t need to be continually sacrificed or resacrificed. He died once for all and said *It is finished*.

Jesus said it was a done deal. How can the Catholic church say that it’s continuing?

Hebrews 10

1For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 2Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

5Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
6in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

8When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

15And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,”

17then he adds,

“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

18Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.


2,123 posted on 12/10/2010 8:39:43 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom; caww; Iscool
I think a major problem (some) Protestants have in understanding Catholic doctrine is that they think eternity is no more than time -- only longer. In effect, this means they picture God as being within time (not able to act within time, which of course He can do and does). This means that time is pictured as greater than God, and not a creature of God, which -- in Catholic thought -- it is.

Even some of the Protestants who give lip service to eternity as outside of time don't seem to grasp the implications -- they know the words, but not the tune, so to speak. This limited understanding makes it impossible for them to grasp what we believe about the Mass.

2,128 posted on 12/10/2010 9:01:05 AM PST by maryz
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