Too bad. Truth is truth.
God forbids the drinking of blood. It was reiterated in the NT, one of the very few OT regulations to be done so.
God forbids the drinking of blood. It was reiterated in the NT, one of the very few OT regulations to be done so.
Exactly! Acts 15:20 but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.
"In the unbloody sacrifice of the Mass, celebrated by priests, the same life-giving victim is offered up. ... He is sacrificed for us in the mystery of this sacred oblation.http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius09/p9amant1.htm
"Nothing is greater or holier than the unbloody sacrifice of the Mass." -Pope Pius IX (the infallible), Amantissimi Redemptoris
Rom 3:25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith.
Heb 9:22 In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Clearly, the unbloody "sacrifice" is no sacrifice at all. It, admittidely, does not (cannot) perfect anyone.
Communion was never meant to be a continuation, immolation, one in the same sacrifice, but a memorial of thanksgiving for those who recieve it. "Do this in REMEMBORANCE of Me"