>> So you believe you can ‘mark your soul’ with eating into your digestive tract something your priests have through an incantation transmogrified into the flesh and blood of Jesus? <<
You’re interpeting that Catholics claim what we do on Earth causes God to do something. THAT’S magic. Magic is not real. God doesn’t do anything because of what WE want. What really happens is that when God does something, he often creates a sacrament/sign of it here on Earth. When God wants to perform a miracle, he leads us into prayer. When he wants to save a soul, he leads us to the gospel and ultimately the Church. He wants us to SEE in ways we can understand what it is that he does. When we do things because God leads us to do them, that isn’t magic, that’s a miracle.
Do you believe that Jesus’ healing of the blind man required him to bend down and draw in the mud, then plaster the mud on the man’s eyes? Do you believe that God really needed the lamb’s blood on the doors to know who were Hebrews and therefore spare them? Do you believe there just happened to be an earthquake when Jesus died, and the gospel tells us of this just for historical curiosity?
The “incantations” you sacrilegiously reference is the Word, itself.
“On the day before he was to suffer,
he took bread in his holy and venerable hands,
giving you thanks, he said the blessing,
broke the bread
and gave it to his disciples, saying:
He bows slightly.
Take this, all of you, and eat of it,
for this is my Body,
which will be given up for you. (A bell rings to signify the transubstantiation)
“In a similar way, when supper was ended,
he took this precious chalice
in his holy and venerable hands,
and once more giving you thanks, he said the blessing
and gave the chalice to his disciples, saying:
Take this, all of you, and drink from it,
for this is the chalice of my Blood,
the Blood of the new and eternal covenant,
which will be poured out for you and for many
for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this in memory of me.” (A bell rings to signify the transubstantiation)
You posed your question incorrectly. The blood on the door post and lintel was a sign to the Destroying Angel that a 'first born' of faith was in that household. God needs no signs or works; He knows the end from the beginning and knows the inner most heart of each of us ... apparently, the Angel God sent to do the task did need a sign. Do you realize the significance of that scene for our epoch? Have you cited a passage yet do not understand the significance of that passage?... The blood on the door posts and lintel indicated the folks inside were of faith in the Promise of God. Your religion of catholiciism focuses upon the work to get the blood on the doorpost and lintel while failing to see the principle of the exercise. It was by faith that they were saved from the destroying angel. Abraham believed God and it was counted for him righteousness ... the Hebrews who believed God and it was counted for them righteousness thus not a target of the destroying angel.
The incantation is what you posted, not the actual BIBLE verse. Your illustration is a good example of magic thinking, just as the pagans did when eating the foods they brought to their idols. The cup held wine, not transubstantiated something you believe to be the blood of Jesus. But Jesus Himself tells you the cup holds wine before and after the sharing of the cup. Israelites were forbidden BY GOD to drink blood. Jesus had not yet been tot eh Cross where His blood would be shed for our Salvation. The cup held wine before during and after in was shared.