You still don’t understand the words of Jesus about His Body and Blood that is for our salvation contrasted against the old mosaic law about eating blood and meat of sacrificed animals to idols.
I partake of the Eucharist because Jesus told us to do so. I believe that it is His Body and Blood and I feel much closer to God.
If you can’t or won’t understand the difference in a gift of God for our salvation compared to a general statement of a Jewish custom, then perhaps you are not listening to God’s word and following false teachings.
It seems to me that non Catholics struggle to come up with a minor issue/distraction/excuse to avoid dealing with God’s explicit words.
I suggest that the Catholic Church’s teaching that only Catholics should receive the Eucharist, then non catholics have to deny this teaching of Jesus.
I understand it perfectly sir. I just do not agree with your interpretation. I used to believe that unscriptural thing about transubstanciation, or whatever you call it, but I don't now. You think Jesus was being literal and physical about this so called Eucharist thing, I take Him figuratively. I always interpret or deal with difficult to understand verses, as you SHOULD too, in light of the clear teaching of verses that are so clear, no one can mess them up. It appears you do the opposite. You seem to ignore the clear teaching, in favor of the difficult verses. That is your privelege, I don't agree with it. Besides, I thought you are not allowed to interpret scripture without a priest, and yet you are trying to tell me what it says. That is interpreting, and you are not allowed to do that. 🎯. You can think whatever you like. I just don't agree with you. Maybe we can settle it at the pearly gates. 😇
Old mosaic law?? And only the blood from meat sacrificed to itdols?? Are you kidding or do you not know what scripture says.?
Deuteronomy 12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
That was anything they ate. And it's not just "old mosaic law" either.
Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
It does NOT say blood from meat offered to idols, it says and from blood. The prohibition from eating blood remains. Christ would have been sinning by eating blood and encouraging others to do so.