No. the CATHOLIC CHURCH is the one saying that Jesus told people to sin. THEY are the ones who are claiming that people have to literally consume the literal flesh and blood of Jesus to receive spiritual life.
The Eucharist - The Real Presence of Christ is HIS BODY AND HIS BLOOD is the essence of the Sacrifice of the Cross.
His blood was poured out and gone, He was crucified on a cross, not killed on an altar, He gave Himself willingly and said, "It is finished".
It is NOT a sacrifice that God gave to us to offer to Himself over and over again.
Jesus died ONCE for our sins and rose again and is seated in heaven at the right hand of God making intercession for the saints (His followers)
He loved us so much that He gave us His life and left Himself for our spiritual nourishment for our salvation.
He gave us the Holy Spirit and His WORD for our spiritual nourishment. Physical eating does not give spiritual life.
Yet you deny Jesus, His words and His Church. And try to act pious in doing so.
I do not deny Jesus and I do not deny His true body of believers.
I do not recognize that that entity which calls itself the one true church, ie the Catholic church, is what it claims to be.
May you understand the real teachings of Jesus and not just your personal opinion.
I believe what is taught in His Word, not man-made doctrines fabricated centuries after the fact.
Your choice to believe the Catholic church is also your opinion, no different than anyone else's. It's just your opinion that they are right. Others have the opinion that they are wrong.
So what's the basis of comparison?
Scripture. If something lines up with Scripture, then it's correct. If it doesn't then it's wrong.
And it's not rocket science to read and see that.
The prohibition against eating blood in Scripture. God could not have possibly made it more clear and yet the Catholic church STILL insists that you have to eat blood. Therefore, the Catholic church is wrong.
Now the church teaches this.
Unbloody sacrifice
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P41.HTM
1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: "The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different." "In this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner."188
The problem is, without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. And if the sacrifice of the mass is an unbloody one, then it's just useless killing.
Also, if it's unbloody, then where does the blood come from that you guys claim you have to eat? And WHY do you guys claim you have to eat it if the mass is an unbloody sacrifice?
Don't eat the blood, the life is in the blood
Genesis 9:4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life , that is, its blood.
Leviticus 3:17 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 7:26-27 Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 17:10-14 If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.
Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.
Leviticus 19:26 You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.
Deuteronomy 12:16 Only you shall not eat the blood ; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
Deuteronomy 12:23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life , and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
Deuteronomy 15:23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
Acts 15:12-29 And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. After they finished speaking, James replied, Brothers, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,
After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things known from of old.
Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.
Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers, with the following letter:
The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth.For it has seemed good to the Holy Spiritand to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
Sounds kinda made up to me.