Posted on 12/05/2010 6:14:57 PM PST by RnMomof7
I know lots of Catholics and none are blood drinkers.
There's NOTHING in the Gospel of Saint John at all about the Virgin Birth.
If there was an Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary, Jesus would have told us...And since He didn't, your religion is just making it up...
The fact that the Nestorian interpretation of Scripture denies this, does not mean that the Church made it up.
Acts 10:9 The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. 10 And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance 11 and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. 12 In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. 13 And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” 14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” 15 And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” 16 This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.Now of course there are all sorts of cults that hover around the periphery of Christianity that will try to explain this passage away, but they also cling to works righteousness and deny the Trinity.
***I know lots of Catholics and none are blood drinkers.***
Odd, because they claim to do so at Mass.
Of course we Christians think Catholics are wrong on that....
Odd that I have been to mass and none drank blood.
The poster is awesome. Your answer I disagree with as you no doubt know.
Well, every FRoman Catholic I have ever seen discuss this claims that the wine, through some form of hocus pocus, becomes blood.
You are welcome. Though the faux dokter will not understand it in the least. When she reads it is along the lines of “blah, blah, blah, OH LOOK A BUNNY!! And off she goes.
My pleasure!
So Catholics don't eat Jesus' flesh and drink his blood???
If your church didn't make it up, where'd it come from??? It's certainly not in the scripture...
You had best take that up with Jesus who commanded it to be so.
He also said He is a gate. Does that mean He has hinges on His body? That He is made of wood?
That is because we read the scriptures
The implication in the post was that we drink blood under its own appearance. Yes I drink the Lord’s blood and eat the Lord’s Body in the form of the Host or Bread & Wine. No wait I need to make that clearer. I gnaw, rend, relish, asunder the Lord’s Bodyand Blood, Soul and Divinity under the species of Bread & Wine. And I do so because that is what Jesus told His followers to do. I do so because that is what Christians of the Early Church did. If the Eucharist is only a symbol (important as that may be) then His death on the cross was only symbolic.
I say both contentions are heresy and insult our Lord.
Read Mark 14.
Amen
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Let me take Robby's analogy a bit further.
I love to cook on an outdoor grill.
I put beef on the grill. I also put pork and poultry on the grill. Since all three meats are on the same grill, they must come from the same animal.
This analogy makes about as much sense as Robby's Greek mythology analogy.
Jesus was born of a virgin in fulfilment of the scriptures. Jesus is still alive in a physical body, and is at the right hand of God.
If Heracles actually existed, he was a man without any divinity. Incidently, according to the Greek myths, Zeus had physical intercourse with Heracles' mother. Therefore, Heracles mother, according to the myths, was NOT a virgin.
God did not have physical intercourse with Mary. Would anybody disagree with my last statement?
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