3. Eucharist – This is the best known tradition of the Roman Catholic church where members during mass eat a piece of bread (i.e. wafer, cracker or cookie) and take a sip of wine. According to the church doctrine of transubstantiation the priest supernaturally turns the bread and wine into the actual body and blood of Christ. So during the Catholic church mass Christ is crucified over and over again. Members of the Catholic church become cannibals and devour the body of Jesus and drink his blood like some sort of vampire. By this ritual the Catholic church refutes the work of Christ on the cross as being complete which is the clear message of God’s Word. The Catholic church by their actions are saying God is not sovereign over his creation and is a liar and the Bible is not the truth. Nothing about the Eucharist is biblical. At the Last Supper Jesus dined with His disciples and broke bread and drank wine while making the following statements:
1 Corinthians 11:24-25 – (Jesus speaking) – Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you, do this in REMEMBRANCE of me. This is the cup of the new covenant in My blood, this do, as often as you drink it, in REMEMBRANCE of me.
The authority for the Eucharist is based on these Scriptures but it’s obvious Jesus was using bread and wine as a metaphor for his body and blood. This ceremony was to be kept as a memorial to the sacrificial death Jesus was about to make on the cross for the sins of all men. The key is the word remembrance used in both verses. Nowhere else in Scripture is the Catholic view of the Eucharist corroborated. I find it ominous that in a subsequent verse God metaphorically says he who partakes of this ceremony in an unworthy manner drinks judgment to himself. God knew the Catholic church would corrupt this ceremony for their own sinful reasons and in this verse God is passing judgement on them before it happens.
Leviticus 17:12 – Therefore I said to the children of Israel, “No one among you shall eat blood, nor shall any stranger who dwells among you eat blood.”
Genesis 9:4 – But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
James 4:17 – Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
The Bible forbids men to drink blood so if Catholics were literally drinking the blood of Christ during the Eucharist it would be in contradiction to Scripture. We know God’s Word is perfect and without error therefore the premise on which the Eucharist is based is false. This is just another false sacrament established by men to keep the members of the church in spiritual bondage to maintain the power and wealth of the church.
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