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To: Arthur McGowan; CynicalBear
We are living in a NEW Covenant. Some of the laws are different—namely, the ritual laws.

There are no laws for the New Testament church...

Even granting that Jesus did not want us to LITERALLY drink his blood—because it would be a sin—you then need to explain why Jesus would command us to SIMULATE the commission of that sin, by repeatedly telling us to drink his blood SYMBOLICALLY by drinking wine that Jesus SAID was his blood.

It IS explained in the bible...It is a metaphor to the believers...We are to do it as a memorial of the Crucifixion...

Jesus told us to break the bread...Why??? So we could constantly break his body into pieces??? Of course not...So that we could remember that his body was broken for us...

Did Jesus tell us to nail the wafer to a cross??? Nope...Did Jesus tells us to bury the wafer??? Nope...Has God told people to eat other things that were not edible??? Tons of times...Did those people eat those things??? Of course not...

But looking at the other side of the coin; what motivation could the Catholic religion have for making the claim to eat the flesh is literal instead of a metaphor???

Because it is the Catholic religion only that makes the claim that Catholic priests only can turn the cracker into the flesh of Jesus...And you can't get Jesus unless you are a Catholic attending a Catholic Church...The bible calls that bondage... It is not a simulation as such...When God told Jeremiah to eat his book, Jeremiah knew he was not simulating eating a book...

274 posted on 02/21/2015 9:36:32 PM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool
There are no laws for the New Testament church...

If THAT is true, then there's no law against drinking blood. In which case, your oft-repeated argument for why Jesus COULD NOT want us to drink his blood explodes.

275 posted on 02/21/2015 9:51:38 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Iscool
Jesus told us to break the bread...Why??? So we could constantly break his body into pieces??? Of course not...So that we could remember that his body was broken for us...

Did Jesus tell us to nail the wafer to a cross??? Nope...Did Jesus tells us to bury the wafer??? Nope...Has God told people to eat other things that were not edible??? Tons of times...Did those people eat those things??? Of course not...

Discussing CATHOLIC beliefs about the Eucharist might be interesting. Discussing your psychotic hallucinations is not.

276 posted on 02/21/2015 9:58:43 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Iscool; Arthur McGowan
Pretending Christ is in that cracker is pure idolatry.

Acts 17:29 Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.

283 posted on 02/22/2015 5:42:35 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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