JESUS shed ALL His Blood and has a spiritual body now which has no blood. So it is NOT Christ who is present in the CC - take it as a clue as why so many have left.
The deceived still have HIM on the Cross - Christians KNOW HE IS RISEN and they rebuke the deception of those who still have HIM on the Cross. Only satan/deception/the counterfeit wants JESUS still on the Cross.
As Christianity is ALL about The Risen Christ!
although some would argue also in the Lutheran Church, but the Lutherans are a little bit different
Only catholics argue about denominations. Born again CHRISTIANS know It's ALL ABOUT JESUS The Word Who became flesh, died for our sins and ROSE again to be with HIS FATHER and HIS Spirit lives within 'His Own' now and forever! Praise GOD for HE is the ONLY ONE worthy of praise!
It is true that many have left, but many more have joined and the Catholic Church continues to grow.
Not everyone who cries Lord, Lord will see the Kingdom of God. Of His chosen Apostles one betrayed Him, one persecuted Him, one doubted Him and one denied Him, but He forgave all of those who repented and sought His forgiveness.
I had a Theology professor who said; 'We are at all times surrounded by a spiritual battle between good and evil. If you do not believe this you are on the wrong side'. Take as you allies in this battle those of us who love God with all of our hearts, all of our souls and all of our minds. Do not look for the small errors in doctrine or in the capacity for reason and understanding to erase Christian unity. Look past those and instead for the Fruits of the Holy Spirit.
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. - 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Remember that when we gather in this forum in His name he is here with us.
Peace be with you
It’s not Christ’s dying that saves us but His death because the wages of sin is DEATH, not dying.
Leaving Jesus on the cross means that He has not finished the work of redemption that HE said was finished.
If any church thinks that the blood is His real blood, that blood cannot save because it isn’t shed. You are right. Jesus blood, which He needed for this earthly body, is not necessary for His resurrected body because it’s a new body, not His old one. Catholics believe that we get the same bodies as we have now and Scripture teaches against that.
It’s not Christ’s dying that saves us but His death because the wages of sin is DEATH, not dying.
Leaving Jesus on the cross means that He has not finished the work of redemption that HE said was finished.
If any church thinks that the blood is His real blood, that blood cannot save because it isn’t shed. You are right. Jesus blood, which He needed for this earthly body, is not necessary for His resurrected body because it’s a new body, not His old one. Catholics believe that we get the same bodies as we have now and Scripture teaches against that.
You have heard of the Real Presence, haven’t you. The REAL Body and Blood received at Communion in the Catholic Church? Why do you try to spin my words elsewhere?
FYI, the Catholic Church is all about Jesus — The Liturgy of the Word in the Mass and the Liturgy of the Eucharist in the second half of the Mass.
Can’t get more about Jesus Christ than that.
Blessings to you; I will pray for you.