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I'm going to proceed now where we left off yesterday in the book.
We just got started on chapter 24 in the book, A Woman Rides the Beast,
by Dave Hunt.
It's entitled, Sacrifice of the Mass.
This is the central feature of Roman Catholicism.
This is the sacrifice, the so-called sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the altars of
the Roman Catholic churches all over the world every day.
It is, well, an abomination.
And if you comprehend what this author is about to tell you about the sacrifice of
the Mass, according to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, you'll understand,
you'll begin to understand why I say that in the Mass, Roman Catholics eat and drink
damnation to themselves.
This is an unspeakable crime against Christ and an unspeakable crime against
Christians, this teaching that Christ must be perpetually sacrificed, as though His
one-time all-sufficient sacrifice on the cross 2,000 years ago was the beginning of
a perpetual slaughter that Christ must endure for eternity.
It's insanity.
Now before I go so far as to make my listeners believe that I'm overstating or
being melodramatic about this, listen to what Dave Hunt says.
And I think you'll find it consistent with every book that I've read on Inquisition
Update that deals with this so-called sacrifice.
This is Protestant teaching.
This teaching, once realized, after reading the Scriptures for themselves,
the Protestant Reformers came out of the Roman Catholic Church.
And the Protestant Reformation liberated all of Europe and broke the iron chains of
papal tyranny all over the world.
The truth about the Mass must be heard and understood by God's people today.
Especially of those who have been tempted and lured back into the Roman Catholic
Church post-Vatican Council 2 and ecumenism.
Listen to what they've bought in going back to the Roman Catholic Church.
This is entitled again, Sacrifice of the Mass.
He says, we've come to the very heart of Roman Catholicism, that unique element
which separates it from all other religions and especially from Evangelical
Christianity, the Sacrifice of the Mass.
It is, quote, the sacrifice of the cross, which is perpetuated.
It is the source and the summit of the whole of the Church's worship and of the
Christian life, unquote.
Declared present on the altar through the miracle of transubstantiation,
they say, which only the Roman Catholic priest can perform, is the, quote,
true body and blood of Jesus Christ, who is really and substantially present
under the appearance of bread and wine, in order to offer himself in the Sacrifice
of the Mass and to be received as spiritual food in Holy Communion,
unquote.
Christ said from the cross just before he died, quote, it is finished, unquote.
John, chapter 19, verse 30.
But to the Roman Catholic, it isn't finished.
Christ's sacrifice continues to this day, being endlessly repeated on Roman Catholic
altars.
Quote, each time the Mass is offered, the sacrifice of Christ is repeated.
A new sacrifice is not offered, but by divine power, one and the same
sacrifice is repeated.
In the Mass, Christ continues to offer himself to the Father as he did on the
cross, unquote.
But in a, quote, unbloody manner, under the appearance of bread and wine,
unquote.
Now, this is where we ended yesterday on the program.
Now we'll continue.
He says Calvary was a very bloody scene.
How there could be an unbloody repetition thereof is not explained.
Furthermore, the Bible distinctly says that, quote, without shedding of blood,
there is no remission.
Hebrews, chapter 9, verse 22.
That is, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins.
Jesus saved us by his blood.
The Mass is said to be an unbloody sacrifice.
According to the scripture, it has no efficacy whatsoever.
He continues, he says, yet the, quote, unquote, unbloody Mass is deemed to
bring remission of sins.
A remission which is not needed, for Christ already obtained it on the
cross.
The Bible says, quote, and he took the cup, saying, this is my blood of the New
Testament, which is shed on the cross for many for the remission of sins.
Matthew, chapter 26, verse 27 and 28.
To him, Christ gave all the prophets witness that whosoever believeth in him
shall receive, that is, as a gift of God's grace, remission of sins.
Acts, chapter 10, verse 43.
So how many sacrifices are there?
Or is there just one?
The Mass is called a propitiatory sacrifice, in which, quote, Christ offers
himself perpetually for the salvation of the entire world, and the work of our
redemption is accomplished, unquote.
In contrast, the Bible repeatedly emphasizes that the full penalty for sin
was paid upon the cross.
And on that basis, the resurrected Christ, quote, entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us, unquote.
Hebrews 9, 12.
There he is seated at the Father's right hand, our great high priest, Hebrews 4,
chapter 14, representing those he has redeemed, where, quote, he ever liveth,
which means he dies no more.
He ever liveth to make intercession for them, unquote.
Who needeth not daily, as Old Testament high priests, to offer up sacrifices?
For this he did once, when he offered up himself on the cross.
Hebrews, chapter 7, verse 27.
The contrast between Roman Catholicism and what the Bible teaches could not be
greater than with regard to the alleged sacrifice of the Mass.
That difference is exposed with stark clarity in the distinction which the Bible
emphasizes between the one sacrifice Christ made of himself, and the continual
Old Testament sacrifices which had to be repeated daily.
The repetition of those offerings is given as proof that they could not pay the
penalty for sin, and the fact that Christ was offered only once is given as proof
that his sacrifice was sufficient and never needed to be repeated.
That the Mass must be repeated proves its ineffectiveness.
If once is not enough, then neither would be a billion repetitions, nor can Rome say
how many Masses it takes to get even one out of purgatory.
The many Old Testament sacrifices of animals were anticipatory types of the one
sacrifice of Christ upon the cross, which would accomplish what they could
not.
The Bible allows no misunderstanding, quote, Nor yet that he, meaning Christ,
nor yet that Christ should offer himself often as the Jewish high priest entereth
into the holy place every year with the blood of others, for then he must have
suffered since the foundation of the world.
But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself, and as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment, though Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.
For the law can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year
continually make the comers thereunto perfect, for then would they not have
ceased to be offered.
But this man, Jesus Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for the sins
forever, sat down on the right hand of God, for by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified.
God says their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sins.
Hebrews chapter 9 verse 25, chapter 10 verse 2, chapter 10 verse 12 through 18.
It's quite obvious from the scripture isn't it?
What Jesus did on the cross was to be done once and once only because it's all
sufficient.
To repeat that act symbolically in the mass is no less than a total repudiation
of what Christ did, a total rejection.
It's a band-aid placed over a completely healed wound.
Scripture could not be clearer.
Christ's sacrifice took place once and for all time upon the cross and is never to be
repeated, because it paid the full penalty for sin, the full penalty for sin.
That the mass is Christ being sacrificed over and over on Roman Catholic altars is
the very heart of Roman Catholicism.
And the repetition of the mass is the Roman Catholic Church's main hope of
eventual release from purgatory.
That doctrine directly contradicts the Bible.
Vatican Council 2 declares,
If this is true, then Jesus Christ's death upon the cross was not sufficient,
but only a partial payment for sin.
Yet the Bible assures us that he paid the full penalty for our sins.
Under the subtitle, The Impossibility, Dave Hunt continues,
Christ's sacrifice upon the cross occurred at a specific time and accomplished its
purpose.
This historic event may be and should be remembered and honored, but it can no more
be perpetuated or repeated or re-represented than yesterday's news or
any other past occurrence.
And why should it be?
Since by that one offering he, quote, perfected forever them that are
sanctified, unquote.
The Christian's faith is in Christ's sacrifice upon the cross.
The Roman Catholic's faith is in the Church and its alleged ability to repeat
that sacrifice upon its altars.
Yet even the Pope can't say how many such repetitions may be needed.
Thus many Roman Catholics designate large sums in their wills so that their deceased
hundreds or even thousands of masses will be set on their behalf.
This doctrine breeds uncertainty, not the calm assurance that Christ offers
in the scriptures.
The pocket Catholic dictionary declares, quote,
How much benefit in each mass?
No one knows.
Furthermore, Christ is now in a resurrected, glorified, immortal body at
the Father's right hand, never to die again.
He cannot be sacrificed in the mass.
Christ declared, quote, I am he that liveth and was dead.
And behold, I live forevermore.
Revelation 1.18 Moreover, his body, which now lives in the power of an endless
life, see Hebrews 7.16, contains no blood, which is the life of mortal flesh.
His resurrected body is immortal.
Under the subtitle, flesh and bone, a resurrected body without blood,
Dave Hunt continues, When Christ first came to the disciples that resurrection
evening, they thought they were seeing a spirit.
To prove he was alive, he said, quote, Handle me and see, for a spirit
hath not flesh and bones.
Notice he did not say flesh and blood.
As ye see me have, unquote, Luke 24.39 Doubting Thomas, absent on that occasion,
declared skeptically, quote, Except I shall put my finger into the prints of the
nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
John 20.25 When Christ returned a week later, he invited Thomas to do just that.
Quote, Reach thither thy hand, and thrust it into my side, and be not
faithless, but believing.
John 20.27 Clearly Christ's wounds had not healed, but remained as memorials.
The gaping hole in Christ's side into which Thomas could thrust his whole hand
is further evidence that there is no blood in his body.
Blood is the life of mortal flesh, and Christ's blood was poured out upon the
cross for our sins.
Quote, For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the
altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh an
atonement for the soul.
Leviticus 17.11 Yet, the wine is said to become Christ's blood upon the Roman
Catholic altars, and the blood of his crucifixion body that was resurrected
immortal.
To repeat or to perpetuate the sacrifice of Christ, his pre-crucifixion body must
be reconstituted.
This stunning feat is allegedly accomplished through the so-called miracle
of transubstantiation, changing bread and wine into the literal blood and body of
Christ.
Therefore, quote, The priest is indispensable, since he alone,
by his power, can change the elements of the bread and wine into the literal body
and blood of Christ.
Unquote.
Under the subtitle, The Vatican Role of Transubstantiation, Dave Hunt continues,
This is the hocus pocus of the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church.
This is where we get the term, hocus pocus.
The Latin words that the priest utters over this so-called wafer, this so-called
sacrifice, this bloodless sacrifice of the mass, this little piece of bread.
The Roman Catholic priest is said to offer five Latin words, magical, mystical Latin
words, that performs this miracle of transubstantiation.
Hocus corpus meus.
This is the body of Christ, they say in Latin.
And the little bell rings, and Jesus apparently, according to the teaching of
the Roman Catholic Church, dismisses himself from the throne at the right hand
of God the Father, and comes down at the order of the priest and indwells that
piece of bread.
This is what Roman Catholics are instructed to believe, on pain of
excommunication and eternal damnation.
This is what the ecumenical evangelicals, who know not God, have united themselves
ecumenically with the Roman Catholic Church.
And the Protestant churches, the so-called Protestant churches, the ecumenical
evangelical churches, they are slowly but surely being taught to think of the bread
of communion as the literal blood, body, soul and divinity of Christ to be
sacrificed again, even on evangelical altars.
This is the abomination that worketh desolation in the spirit of all who
participate in this abomination.
He says, due to the alleged miracle of transubstantiation, the host, or the
wafer, which is eaten at mass, is worshipped as Christ himself.
The same devotion is directed to additional blessed wafers, reserved in a
tabernacle, a small box-like receptacle covered with a veil, and with a light
perpetually burning nearby.
The devout come and pray to the wafers, therein as though to Christ, believing
they are his holy presence.
Mother Teresa expressed this belief.
Listen to what so-called Mother Teresa said about the Eucharist, about the wafer.
It is beautiful to see the humility of Christ, in his permanent state of humility
in the tabernacle.
Where he reduced himself to such a small particle of bread, that the priest can
hold him in two fingers.
You talk about delusion.
That our Lord and Savior, who is now glorified, sitting at the right hand of
the Father, should humiliate himself perpetually, occupying not the throne of
God, but to be placed in a little gold-plated dollhouse within every Roman
Catholic Church.
A little doghouse.
Have you ever seen the tabernacle of the Roman Catholic Church where Jesus lives?
I mean, you can't make up this stuff.
And people believe this all over the world.
And they believe that you must believe this too.
And if not, then you are a heretic deserving of what Rome has dished out to
God's people for nearly 2,000 years.
Torture, interrogation, rape, pillage, burning, confiscation of property,
confiscation of children, denounced as a heretic, and treated like the scum of the
earth even being denied a Christian burial.
Their bodies to be eaten by dogs.
This is the history of the Roman Catholic Church.
To be a true Roman Catholic, you must believe, like Mother Teresa, that Jesus
Christ is perpetually humiliated, being reduced to a mere piece of bread,
and stowed away in a little gold-plated dolly house on the altar of the Roman
Catholic Church, to be bowed down to and prayed to as though it were Christ.
What a grand delusion.
What a satanic counterfeit.
We are to have nothing, nothing whatsoever to do with it but to denounce it as the
doctrine of Antichrist.
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Now, back to the book.
Top of page 374, if you're following along, Dave Hunt says, A large wafer,
one of these Jesus cookies, as I cynically call them.
That's what many Protestants call them.
This large wafer is exhibited for adoration in a monstrance.
A gold or silver vessel with a transparent center for displaying the wafer.
Seeing the sacrament, quote, stimulates the faithful to an awareness of the
marvelous presence of Christ and is an invitation to spiritual communion with
Him.
It is therefore an excellent encouragement to offer Him in the wafer that worship in
spirit and in truth, which is His due, unquote.
That's right.
They put the wafer in a very, very costly silver or gold, some of them are solid
gold, fixture called a monstrance.
And it is normally fitted with a glass door in the front, whereby everybody can
see Jesus in this little fixture called the monstrance.
And whenever they see Jesus coming down the street in the monstrance, they are to
bow and genuflect and cross themselves, throw rose petals, worship and pray to it
as though it were Jesus.
Dave Hunt continues, an ex-Catholic writes, quote, Catholics bow down to a
wafer that sits in a tabernacle on an altar and believe that it is actually
Christ Himself.
That's why as a child I was taught to make the sign of the cross whenever passing a
Roman Catholic church, unquote.
There is a revival across America of something called perpetual adoration of
the blessed sacrament.
Parish families sign up for an hour or more each week so that some devout are
keeping Christ company, they say, in the worship of the host almost around
the clock every day.
Pope John Paul II approves enthusiastically of perpetual adoration,
establishing exposition of the blessed sacrament in St. Peter's in 1981.
He said this, quote, how great is the value of conversation with Christ in the
blessed sacrament.
There is nothing more consoling on earth, nothing more powerful for advancing along
the road to holiness, unquote.
There is nothing more holy that you can do, according to John Paul II,
than to go to a Roman Catholic church, sign up to participate in the perpetual
adoration of the host.
And in your allotted time, you come to the church dressed in black or in a state of
penitence and find a position in the pew or on your knees and pray to this piece of
bread and keep Jesus company.
I'm not making this up.
Dave Hunt's not making this up.
This is Roman Catholicism.
This is an abomination.
Under the subtitle, pagan pageantry to honor Christ, Dave Hunt continues.
Enclosed in a monstrance, the wafer is also carried in procession.
Procession is just another word for a parade.
A public parade.
It says, enclosed in a monstrance, the wafer is also carried in a procession.
It is astonishing with what extravagant pageantry the host is paraded through the
streets on special festivals.
An early 18th century eyewitness and participant in the grand procession in
Saragossa, Spain on the annual festival of Corpus Christi writes, quote, Now listen
to this.
This is lengthy.
You're going to see in your mind's eye what this procession is all about.
This is Roman Catholic Spain, one of the most Roman Catholic countries in the
world, where this wafer is paraded up and down the streets and public streets,
and people literally abandon their offices.
All the dignitaries of state abandon their jobs, abandon their offices, and come down
to the street to worship the piece of bread.
Quote, the dean of the cathedral summons all the communities of friars,
all the clergy of the parish churches, the viceroy, governor and magistrates,
the judges of the civil and criminal council, with the Lord Chancellor of the
kingdom, and all the fraternities, brotherhoods, or corporations of the city,
to meet together in the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of St. Salvatore,
with all the standards, trumpets, giants, and some of them are huge,
wooden figures, 15 feet tall, dressed colorfully, in their respective habits of
office and dignity, and all the clergy of the parish churches and friars of
convents, to bring along in a procession all the silver bodies of saints on a base
or pedestal, which are in their churches and convents.
The inhabitants are to clean the streets, which the sacrament is to go through,
and cover the ground with greens and flowers, and to put the best hangings in
the fronts and the balconies of the windows.
The viceroy goes in state with the governor, judges, magistrates,
and officers, to meet the archbishop in his palace, and to accompany his grace to
church, where all the communities of friars, clergy, and corporations are
awaiting for them.
After the archbishop has made a prayer before the great altar, the music begins,
while the archbishop takes out of the tabernacle the host upon the rich golden
chalice, and places it on the great custodia on the altar's table.
The archbishop, in his pontifical habit, officiates.
His grace giveth the blessing to the people with the sacrament in his hands.
Then the archbishop, with the help of the dean, the archdeacon, and the chanter,
placeth the custodia on a gilt pedestal, which is adorned with flowers and the
jewels of several ladies of quality, and which is carried on the shoulders of
twelve priests, dressed in the same ornaments in which they say the mass.
This being done, the procession begins to go out of the church in the following
order.
First all the bagpipe, and the great and small giants, these colorful figures,
dancing along the streets, followed by the big silver cross of the cathedral.
Next come thirty corporations of tradesmen, the smallest is thirty people,
then the boys and the girls of the blue hospital, with their master, mistress,
and the chaplain.
Then all the religious orders, led by the Franciscans, because they are
the youngest.
In all, about seventy orders, dressed in the ornaments that they use at the altar.
There are twenty convents of friars, about two thousand present on this solemn
occasion, sixteen convents of nuns, about fifteen hundred, and twelve hundred
parish priests.
In all, forty-seven hundred ecclesiastical persons, and the inhabitants come to
fifteen thousand families.
Then come the clergy of the cathedrals of Saint Salvatore, and the Lady of the
Pillar, with all their sacerdotal ornaments, and the musicians of both the
cathedrals, which go before the custodia, or sacrament, singing all the way.
Then the twelve priests more, that carry the canopy under which the sacrament goes.
The archbishop, in his pontifical habit, goes at the subdeacon's right hand.
The viceroy at the archbishop's, and the deacon and subdeacon, one at the
right, and the other at the left, all under the canopy.
Six priests with incense, and incensories, are on both sides of the custodia.
They go incensing the sacrament without intermission, while one kneels down before
the great host and incenses it three times, the other puts incense in his
incensory, and thus they do, from the coming out of the church, till they return
back again to it.
The great chancellor, presidents and councils follow after, with all the
nobility, the men and the women, with lighted candles.
This procession lasts four hours, from the time it goes out, till it comes
into the church again.
All the bells of the convents and parishes ring all this time.
The riches of that procession are incredible.
With this magnificence they carry the sacrament through the principal streets of
the city, and all the people that are in the balconies and lattice windows,
throw roses and other flowers upon the canopy of the sacrament as it goes by.
This is Roman Catholic Spain.
This is a regular occurrence.
And if Rome had her way, this would be done everywhere in the United States.
A once Protestant nation.
And let me tell you, you are going to have a tough time finding an acceptable excuse
to be absent from this idolatrous worship.
And if your excuse is not satisfactory, you may be punished, and punished
severely.
And if you show up to this adoration, this parade of the monstrance,
this parade of the Eucharist, the wafer down the streets, if you act untoward,
you don't remove your hat, you do not courtesy and bow, and genuflect and cross
yourself and pray to this thing, you're liable to lose your head.
That's Roman Catholicism.
You might think it's strange, never having seen or heard of this before.
But you go to any Roman Catholic country and there are many, many videos on YouTube
that you can watch demonstrating these processions in Roman Catholic countries.
You can see what I have just described, what Dave Hunt has just described in his
book.
You can see a living motion picture on the internet.
And if you don't believe this, the evidence is readily available.
Now Dave continues, If this wafer is the literal priest-crucifixion body of Jesus
Christ being offered on Roman Catholic altars around the world, then the
pageantry is not overdone.
Or is it?
How did that one body become millions of bodies, each in the form of a tiny wafer,
each one literally and physically Jesus Christ, whole and entire?
How did the bloodied, old, rugged cross, with its shame and reproach, transmute
into gold and become encrusted with diamonds?
And how can bishops in their ornately embroidered robes of finest silk represent
the one who hung naked on the cross and whose lifeless, battered body,
wrapped in grave clothes, was laid in a tomb?
How has the perpetuation of Christ's death become an incongruous farce?
What does such pagan pageantry, with its gold and jewels, have to do with
Calvary?
How blasphemous is this parading before the world of the Church's boasted power to
hold the pre-crucifixion body of Jesus Christ in its hands and offer Him again
upon its altars?
This dogma breeds fanaticism, not faith.
The slaughter of the Jews in Deggendorf, to which we earlier referred, had been in
revenge for their alleged stealing and torturing one of these consecrated wafers.
Those conditioned to believe that wine had become Christ's blood were able to believe
Hitler's myth of blood as well.
Reality or fraud?
This alleged power of the priest to recreate upon Roman Catholic altars the
literal body of Christ and then to offer Him to God in a sacrifice of the mass in
which our Lord is immolated and Christ perpetuates in an unbloody manner the
sacrifice offered on the cross is the distinctive mark of the Roman Catholic
Church, the synagogue of Satan.
It is thereby, as we have noted, separated by an impassable gulf from all
other religion and especially from evangelical Christianity.
What we have here is either the most vital and miraculous reality or the most
diabolical fraud.
There is no middle ground.
The Roman Catholic cannot deny that on the face of it, the claim of
transubstantiation seems preposterous.
There is no detectable change in the wafer or the wine after they presumably have
been transformed through the priest's unique power into Christ's literal body
and blood.
How then can one be certain that this so-called miracle has occurred?
As with so much else in Roman Catholicism, assurance comes only by blindly accepting
whatever the Church says.
Yes, some Bible verses are offered in support of this dogma, but the Catholic
must accept the Church's interpretation of these.
Though common sense and proper exegesis would reject it.
There are two main passages from which the doctrine of transubstantiation is derived.
John chapter 6 verse 51 through 57 and Matthew chapter 26 verse 26 through 28.
Compare also Luke 22 verse 19 and 20 and 1 Corinthians chapter 11 verse 24 and 25.
Let's consider them for a moment.
Literalism or Symbolism?
Referring to his impending crucifixion, Christ told the Jews in John 6 quote,
The bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
world.
Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye shall have no life
in you, unquote.
Verses 51 and 53.
Catholicism takes these words literally and faults Protestantism for interpreting
them symbolically.
Christ also said quote, I am the bread of life.
Verse 35.
Why not take him literally here?
Making him a loaf of bread.
Is it any more foolish to say Christ is bread than to say a piece of bread is
Christ?
The Bible should be taken literally wherever that is its meaning.
But not when analogy and symbolism is meant, and literalism would violate logic
or God's laws.
The psalmist said quote, He, meaning God, shall cover thee with feathers,
with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust.
Psalm 91.4.
Are we to picture God as a big bird?
Jesus wept over Jerusalem, quote, How often would I have gathered my
children together as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not,
unquote.
Luke 13.34.
Surely he wasn't speaking literally, though he was identifying himself as the
very one whom Moses wrote in Psalm 91.
Jesus called mankind to believe on him.
He told Nicodemus that those who believed on him, quote, would not perish,
but have everlasting life.
John 3.16.
And that believing on him would bring about a new birth.
He didn't mean a physical birth, however, but a spiritual birth.
A fact which even Roman Catholics acknowledge.
He promised to give the woman at the well living water, and even a well of water
springing up within her.
John 4.10-14.
But he surely didn't mean physical water.
He told the Jews that whoever would believe on him, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water.
John 7.38.
But he meant neither a physical belly, nor a little, literal, physical rivers.
In John 6, Jesus said, quote, I am the bread of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never
thirst.
Verse 35.
That he didn't mean he was literal, physical bread, or that those who believed
on him would thereafter never have the need for physical food or drink,
is clear.
But they would never hunger and thirst spiritually again.
He was, of course, speaking spiritually, and illustrating his ideas with analogies
from things familiar to all.
Then why should he be taken literally, when a few moments later he says that one
must, quote, eat, unquote, his body and his blood?
Based on that crucial interpretive mistake, the Roman Catholic insists that
the bread and wine is literally Christ.
Let us follow that to its logical conclusion.
If Christ was speaking literally about his body, then he must have been speaking
literally when he said, quote, I am the bread of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never
thirst.
Verse 35.
Since the Catholics claim to literally eat Christ's physical body, they should never
physically hunger or thirst.
But, of course, they do.
Yet, if, quote, hungering and thirsting, unquote, are spiritual terms, then so must
be the eating of his body.
Obviously, Christ is saying that those who believe on him receive eternal life and
don't have to keep coming back to him for another installment.
Roman Catholicism insists that the faithful eat the body and drink the blood
of Christ frequently.
The more masses said, the better.
Yet, even then, one can't be sure of making heaven without suffering and
purgatory.
The Roman Catholic Code of Canon Law, Canon 904, says, quote, Remembering that
the work of redemption is continually accomplished in the mystery of the
Eucharistic sacrifice, priests start to celebrate frequently, indeed daily.
Celebration is strongly recommended, unquote.
The Bible, however, assures us in numerous verses, which we've already quoted,
that the work of redemption was accomplished once and for all on the
cross, and that Christ's sacrifice is never to be repeated.
Jesus Christ said, quote, This is the will of him that sent me, that every one which
seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life.
John 6, 40.
Clearly, this believing on Jesus Christ, which he likens to eating him,
figuratively, is a once and for all act.
He doesn't say it must be done twenty times, a thousand times, once a day,
or once a week.
The moment a person believes on Christ, he or she receives forgiveness of sins and
everlasting life as a free gift of God's grace.
Clearly, a person who has received eternal life by once believing, eating,
he equates believing with eating, need never repeat the act again.
Otherwise, everlasting life is misnamed for something that is everlasting,
but must last forever, and need not be renewed or reinforced.
Consider Christ's words in the same chapter again.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, that he that believeth on me hath,
present tense, present possession, he hath everlasting life.
I am the bread of life.
Your fathers did eat man in the wilderness and are dead.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof and not
die.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever.
And the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of
the world.
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