[ReaganGeneration2]

The question I asked before: what's wrong with the Eucharist? All your derisive criticisms and arguments on the harm in honoring Mary, papal authority, etc., rest merely on how we interpret scripture differently, but they do make the point of showing their potential dangers. So how do you tear down the Eucharist too?... Aren't you going to say it doesn't make logical sense, or is idolatry, or something?

[ealgeone]

The Eucharist is a resacrifice of Christ where the priest calls Him down from Heaven to be placed on the altar again and again, etc. John O Brien writes in the Faith of Millions. That is not verbatim but it's the general idea.

Hebrews tells us Jesus is a one time sacrifice. He is in Heaven today. He does not come back again until the Second Coming.

Catholics claim this helps them be with Christ or feel His presence yet Christ told us He'd send the Holy Spirit to be with us. He is our Comforter.

Catholics claim we are told to drink His blood in John 6. Yet in the accounts of the last supper Jesus says do this in remembrance of me. He also says this is my blood which is poured out for you.

In the OT, the blood,of the sacrifice was never consumed. It was poured out. Consumption of blood would also be a violation of the OT law.

[ReaganGeneration2]

In other words, in arguing against honoring Mary, apostolic succession, etc, you all are constantly “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” - “arguing that one false part of an argument negates the whole argument” - a logical fallacy. Fine, there’s still value in pointing out the bathwater to us.

But for your arguments against the Eucharist, where’s even your “bathwater”?

[Elsie]

#248 The ECFs are just as divided on the Eucharist as they are on the other topics.

The question I asked before: what's wrong with the Eucharist?

Uh...

You are trying to AVOID the FACT that the ECFs disagreed with each other; and was posted quite visibly in this thread.

I'll not waste MY time while you avoiding dealing with the TRUTH of the matter.

[metmom]

The teaching violates God’s clear command to NOT eat blood, that the blood is for atonement, NOT consumption.

To start with.