Posted on 06/23/2015 10:06:16 AM PDT by RnMomof7
I haven’t the faintest clue what that means, but idolatry doesn’t bother Rome in the least, so I can’t take your comments on the matter seriously.
And there is most definitely not another sacrificial offering of Christ in communion - this is a commemoration and celebration, not an offering. Christ died once for all. It is finished.
Please read John 6 starting at verse 35. No metaphors there. “Unless you eat my body and drink my blood you will have no life within you.”
I thought I was a Bible believing Christian. Until el papa told me I couldn’t be because I work for a company that manufactures evil ammunition pieces.
Proud to be an infidel.
Proud to be a heretic.
When the Vatican guards have been disarmed and the Holy See is overrun with muslem scum, I will be awaiting the call.
My answer might not be what they expect to hear.
You presume he was dirty and smelly.
Can God do all thing? Yes. Does He do all things? No.
Has He turned into a literal door? No.
Yep. I have learned so much from them.
FRiend, you have missed it. Of course it’s metaphor. It’s quite clear that “believing in Jesus” corresponds to “eating the Bread of Life,” since these are used as parallel statements in the same context and with the same result — everlasting life. This theme weaves itself through this discourse, and is said first one way and then another throughout the passage (6:39-40, 47, 57, 63, etc.). St. Augustine put it this way: “For to believe on Him is to eat the living bread. He that believes eats; he is sated invisibly....”
I hope that helps. I’ve got to get back to work.
I’m not a Catholic. But, these attacks on the Catholic Church make me sick.
God said, Deuteronomy 12:23 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.
And God explained concerning the death Angel IN EGYPT, Exodus 12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Then the Lord God explained concerning the offering for sin, to cover the law transgressions, Leviticus 16:14 And he [the High Priest] shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
If a catholic can show me even one phrase in the OT of Messiah where God instructs the High Priest or any child of God to drink this precious blood to be sprinkled on the Mercy Seat, I will attend the next Catholic mass in my city and take the Eucharist from the Priest.
Jesus could rise from the dead, but wait, become a piece of bread? IMPOSSIBLE, even for Jesus Christ!
No way could he do THAT! I’d rather be screen named after a gun!
Believe, and live!
Claiming you’re “saved” doesn’t save you, only Jesus Christ saves you, when he judges you, after you have been permitted your earthly life. You don’t “earn” it by but claiming. Look around!
Does he do all things he said he would do?
Has He turned into a literal door?
The example is not parallel. He never held up a door and said "This door is me".
If it's metaphor, why did it scandalize everyone there, and why didn't Jesus explain that it was metaphor?
BTW, it's a "metaphor" that's never used anywhere else in Scripture.
St. Augustine put it this way
He also said that you sin if you don't adore the consecrated Host.
God didn’t say “Go and make worshippers” or “You shall be worshippers”.
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.
I count two hands holding those who believe. How about you? Those who have The Holy Spirit in them have God in them, thus as God the Father and God the Son carry that one with the Life of God in them, it is God who carries His LIfe, albeit in the believer.
We practice closed communion, sorry.
In the passover Seder, you had to actually eat the lamb, remember? If you didn't like lamb, you couldn't eat a lamb-shaped cookie to make you think of the lamb; if you did, you'd die with rest of the firstborn.
Who's the Passover Lamb of the New Covenant?
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