I can look to what Jesus referred to with the lifting up of the serpent in the desert and show How Jesus Himself explains that He is prefigured in that act by Moses for the people. The Israelites bitten by the poisonous snakes were by faith healed when they looked upon the brass serpent on the pole. Later in the History of the Israelites the people had turned that faith exercise into a pagan idol worship, making brass serpents that were venerated as if the totem could bring power. Catholicicsm does the very same turning the sacred remembrance into the sacrilege of something forbidden to all the generations of Jews, into which I am certain the body of Jesus is included. As a devout Jew and absolutel follower of the commands of God, Jesus would not have violated them prior to His sacrifice upon the Cross. To assert, even speciously, that He would offer His literal blood to the disciples at Passover is a sacrilege taught by your religion, a religion only vagurely similar to Christianity, an immitator but not a grafted branch.
The wood of the Cross is not the focus just as the brass of the serpent is not the focus, the sacrifice is the focus of Faith. To speciously try and refocus attention onto the altar, the cross, or the brass serpent on a pole is to ignore the sacred remembrance and worship instead the sacrilege.
Jesus was identified by John The Baptist as 'The Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world'. That sacrifice upon the Cross poured out His blood upon the ;argest altar human's can find, the Earth. If you were familiar with the Book of Romans, you would already know the Earth was the first altar before God, and Abel's blood was shed upon that altar. His blood cried out from The Earth. But trying to get a catholic to see the prefiguring God has given us in the volume of the Book is like searhcing hens mouths for teeth.
We are not n agame of 'last wording', we are discussing issues effecting the very destiny of immortal souls. There are people who read these threads and posts who are seeking the truth. Sadly, as we are being shown daily, the truth is not being taught to catholics. Leaving us to concluded the catholic church doesn't know the truth else they would not teach sacrilege to their faithful.
'Oh you foolish Galatians' ...
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