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Yes. The Eucharist is worship. Not sure anyone would have an issue with worshiping a Holy God.

No problem worshiping God. Made-made objects are not God. Using them as a focal point for worshiping deities is called idolatry. Big problem with that. Does that apply only to false gods. Not at all. The golden calf put together by the Israelites was intended to honor the true God (though they were very confused and saw Him polytheistically):

Exodus 32:4-6 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. (5) And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. (6) And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

So even though Aaron tried to paper it over as a "feast to the LORD," it was still idolatry, and it was still punished by God as idolatry. There are some things God just does not want us to do, no matter how good we think our intentions are. Why folks tempt Him in that area is beyond me. The wafer is not God. No one should give it homage. God rules from His throne in Heaven, and the resurrected, corporeal Jesus is there with Him, at His right hand, not located in any number of monstrances designed after the pattern of sun worship. Worship directed to anything less than the one true God, no matter how well intended, is the worst of sins. We have an issue with that.

Peace,

SR

Not sure anyone would have an issue with worshiping a Holy God.

Oh!

I quite agree!!

But some folks find it hard to agree on what actually constitutes worship in some instances.