You, my FRiend, do not understand a lot of what you think you do. No, it is not about drinking blood. It is about your abhorrence of anything that smacks you as Catholic.
You obviously, in your narrow brand of PROTESTANT thinking cannot understand what Jesus said, if it seems to upset your applecart...your RIDGID believe (or is it Non Believe) system.
And since you won’t answer questions put to you, you can go to Protestant Purgatory so that Yeshua can get your head and your heart focused on Him rather than focused on all your perceived adversaries.
If we were to debate in a public forum, Yeshua would win, and I am on his side!
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
The Bible says the Life is in The Blood. The blood for atonement was to be placed upon the Mercy Seat to cover the law of sin and death. Jesus's LIFE was in His blood before the Resurrection.
With His resurrection He went to the Father, to the Mercy Seat IN HEAVEN and placed His perfect blood upon the Mercy Seat. He does not place His blood in your belly or the bellies of your religious adherents, the Catholics. That would violate His commandment to ALL THEIR GENERATIONS, and Jesus did not violate any of the commandments.
One more little point for your condescending catholic mind: there is a specific reason for Jesus telling Mary not to touch Him yet in the garden that Sunday morning. He had not gone unto His Father yet. Do you know why He told her that, based upon the requirements for the High Priest about to enter the Holy of Holies?
You see, a bully catholic is unable to comprehend the actual means of Salvation nor the actual reality of Sanctification. Why? Because to the catholic mind steeped in rituals as ruled over by the catholic church Nicolatian system, the plan of Salvation is almost the same as that of the Jewish law system ... a catholic is taught to work toward worthiness, the worthiness of God's Grace in Christ.
This works based system ignores what the Bible teaches and ignores the evidence given of the actual Grace hallmarking the Church Age. Perhaps that's why a man like you, steeped in Catholicism's false religion, cannot answer the evidence that men were saved during Peter's teaching at Pentecost as proven by God's Holy Spirit descending INTO these who believed the message and accepted Their Savior. This same proof was evidenced in the house of Cornelius, when the Holy Spirit came INTO the people present for Peter's sermon there, and the Holy Spirit didn't even wait for Peter to finish his sermon!
God's Grace in Christ is contrasted graphically from the Jewish system of trying to follow the laws of Moses for working their way to salvation with the great Church council at Jerusalem.
But you as a steeped catholic cannot get the message because you are under pharisaicesque orders to follow the law of Rome to obtain salvation, eventually, or repeatedly, or maybe, or ... well, even you should get the gist by now.
The only way that you are going to be able to do works of righteousness is if the ONLY righteous LIFE in the Universe is in you. That is ONLY possible because Jesus spread His perfect blood upon the Mercy Seat to cover the laws you will break daily and on FR threads because you are a descendant of Adam and have inherited a fallen nature.
GOD has a plan to put His righteous nature inside of you, but you must be born from above to receive His Life in you. That is in fact the easiest part of all, because all you have to do to be Born from Above is follow the lead of the 3000 saved on Pentecost, or the family and friends in the house of Cornelius. JUST BELIEVE HE IS SAVIOR AND LORD and claim the Promise of God that He will make you a new creation.
THAT is walking in the same faith exhibition as Abraham, and it was counted for him righteousness because his faithing was connected to the work Jesus did on the Cross and in the Holy of Holies. Then He will work on you, to raise you up in the Way that He wants His family members to go.
Everyone here claims to be on the side of Jesus. What Jesus said at the Last Supper about His body and blood is not a hidden mystery, but quite plainly what He said it was, something we do to remember Him, as all who love Him are happy to do. If you have another theory, why not just state it?
Peace,
SR
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