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To: Salvation
Also, have you ever looked at a Sacramentary? Almost ALL of the things a priest (and the people) say during a Mass are from the Bible.

The author was a little more specific...ie. where is the biblical authority for a priest to pray over the bread and wine to turn it into flesh and blood...Maybe you can adress the actual citations in the article...

145 posted on 03/04/2007 10:34:50 AM PST by Iscool (There will be NO peace on earth, NOR good will toward men UNTIL there is Glory to God in the Highest)
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To: Iscool

What sect do you claim?

Certainly no Christian denies the Trinity or denies the Eucharist and yet it appears you do.


147 posted on 03/04/2007 10:37:04 AM PST by narses ("Freedom is about authority." - Rudolph Giuliani)
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To: Iscool

I did. The Gospels all have references to the Last Supper.

Have you never read The Book of John and his chapters on the "Bread of Life"?

I bet you have. This was just a test. right?


189 posted on 03/04/2007 11:26:52 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Iscool
Maybe you can address the actual citations in the article...

No way, Jose'! YOU make the charge. YOU make it stick! As Perry Mason said,"Do this in remembrance of me." Wait, you mean that was somebody else? Gosh, What was the occasion? To whom did he say it? Could this possibly have been around the same time that that person said "This is my body ..., " "This cup is the new covenant in my blood?"

So Jesus says (leaving aside the "I am the bread of Life" discourse which Protestants take as a given that Jesus did not mean) that the cup holds His Blood and the bread is His Body and that the Apostles are to do this in remembrance of Him. Then some protestants say," Well, He didn't really MEAN all that! It was a metaphor!" There are plenty of words, for "sorta like" in Greek. I assume there are in Aramaic as well. If Jesus had MEANT to say, "This is sorta like my body" it wasn't a lack of words that prevented Him. And there are lots of ways to say, "If you should ever want to do this I recommend thinking of me while you do it," but that's not what He said.

So, in other words, when they're done yelling at us RCs for not believing what's in the Bible, they turn around and yell at us for, uh, that's it, believing too much what's in the Bible. I'm just SEW confused!

We point to the text and say, "Here it is!" and they say, Well, now, while we are not in any way recommending anything that might possibly be construed as a WORK, mind you, what we want you to do is spend a WHOLE lot of time reading, re-reading, cross-referencing, and reading yet again your Bibles, until you come up with our opinion of what it says... NOT that we have any tradition or anything like that ... And if you don't do that, you're not a Christian so your salvation is in doubt, but we're not saying your salvation depends on anything you do.

Where's my Prozac? I'm afraid I'm beginning to understand this stuff.

191 posted on 03/04/2007 11:28:43 AM PST by Mad Dawg ("Now we are all Massoud.")
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