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To: ADSUM

Um, to accept the teachings of Jesus you first have to discern them. Catholicism thrives on their adherents not discerning the teachings of Jesus, just the teachings of the Catholic Church about their applied meaning of the teachings. The Catholic Church has this little demonic trick which aids in preventing a Catholic from actually discerning the teachings of Jesus. The Catholic Church (and the Mormon Church, to name another) teach their adherents to ignore non-Ism teaching under the rubric of ‘that’s your interpretation, not the approved meaning.’ Show me where I have one false statement about the Scriptures, then you will have my undivided attention. The slippery slip and slide of the Catholic doctrine over the centuries is not ever going to be consistent, so you might be right about my making mistaken characterizations, since any characterization must be tied to the century from which it is pulled in Catholicism. I red Jerome’s translation for the beauty of the translation. I argue with the sometime idiotic assertions of Augustine. I guffaw at the social gospel of the current Pope and Vatican council.


80 posted on 06/15/2015 12:24:28 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: MHGinTN

Show me where I have one false statement about the Scriptures, then you will have my undivided attention.

Your false statement about the teaching of Jesus Christ:
“the blasphemous teaching that in the Eucharist the adherent drinks the actual blood of Christ (contradicts the nature of God and His command to NEVER drink the blood), and the demonic requirement to sacrifice Jesus over and over again,”

1. The Mass

At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the Eucharistic Sacrifice of his Body and Blood. He did this in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the centuries until he should come again, and so to entrust to his beloved spouse, the Church, a memorial of his death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a paschal banquet in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us” (Sacrosanctum Concilium 47).

Even a modestly informed Catholic can set an inquirer right and direct him to biblical accounts of Jesus’ final night with his disciples. Turning to the text, we read, “And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me’” (Luke 22:19).

2. The Eucharist (His Body and Blood)

In the Eucharist, and it centered on Jesus’ famous words in John 6:53: “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” He also said eating His Body and Blood was necessary for salvation.

You can try to deny His words or revert to the old Jewish covenant (which you accuse me of doing), but you are attempting to fool yourself and not Jesus.

Listen to God and let the Holy Spirit guide you.


90 posted on 06/15/2015 1:41:56 PM PDT by ADSUM
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