Comments on: About Brainwashed Catholics are the blood and body of Jesus?

By: pgd

pgd — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:07:38 +0000

Yes, just another fib told by the politician known as the European Pope.
PBS - The English Bible.

By: Catholic Crusader

Catholic Crusader — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:07:38 +0000

NO. Jesus said: "I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any one eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh." The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying: "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" (John 6:51-52). In Matthew 26:26 Jesus tells how: "As we were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying," Take and eat this is my body. "
After the resurection when he was at the table with the travelers to Emmaus, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give them. Then his eyes were opened and acknowledged. (Luke 24)
When a Catholic priest Christs words spoken over the bread and wine, bread and wine into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ, but the accidents (appearance) of bread and wine remain. The theological term for this is transubstantiation (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05573a.h …).
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By: EZQ1

EZQ1 — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:07:37 +0000

Yes, it is the doctrine of symbolic act that Transubstantiation.A taken literally, but most do not.

By: God

God — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:07:37 +0000

Speaking of fights over nits of theology.
Somehow I doubt that what God has in mind is for eggheads to pore over the Scriptures and argue over minutiae. Catholic apologists that there could quote Scripture that indicates that the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist is the correct one and I doubt that would be less convincing than you. But I am surprised only that they are all missing the point.

By: Loh

Loh — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:07:37 +0000

Honey, you follow the drones in the belief that it is not even your own …. YOU are carrying out what was ordained by fear …. YOU YOUR CONSCIENCE simplification in the same way that his faith …. . …. achieve what the hell … Do you care to even know what they're fighting for! You are sheep … not in a biblical sense, well … Leaving these religions who want to dumb *** fans who can not decide for themselves or live …. easier to manipulate with fear!
Well, the rock to work …. is your life!

By: Sldgman

Sldgman — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:07:37 +0000

Technically, it is the Holy Spirit, not the priest, which makes the bread and wine the body and blood of Christ. It is not a transformation. The forms of bread and wine do not change. The consecrated bread and wine appearance, aroma and flavor, such as bread and wine. The substance has changed. that's why is called transubstantiation.
The sacrifice of the Mass is not Jesus die again. The sacrifice of Jesus is giving us his Body and Blood. Every time a person gives something of himself to another, there is a sacrifice. My answer to this in writing because it is a sacrifice I'm taking time out of my life l to give an answer.
Yes, this is one of the main differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, but they are wrong in characterizing the performance of the Mass as Christ's death again.

By: Got Shoes?

Got Shoes? — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:07:37 +0000

I am Catholic.
If you're suggesting that I (or any Catholic I've talked about this) I change the consecration of the Eucharist meat or wine in human blood, I assure you that you are wrong.
That would be as silly as believing that the stories of the creation of the Earth or the Garden of Eden is literal accounts of actual events.

By: st.aliao

st.aliao — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:07:37 +0000

A brainwashing insulting someone else.
Acme is like cartoons.

By: scotgirl

scotgirl — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:07:37 +0000

I'm not Catholic - but it seems funny that the fundamentalists who say they take the Bible literally gets upset when Catholics take the Bible literally.
Jesus said, "This is my body which is given for you."
"This cup is my blood …"
This is the step that fundamentalism does not take literally.
I find it interesting that - Bible literalists who do not know why it was not that way, literally, is that hundreds of years of struggle against prejudice Catholic.
I agree with you that there is no sacrifice that is produced, and that the Catholic interpretation of that through the Mass is an error in theology.
But still …!

By: evolver

evolver — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:07:37 +0000

We are not brainwashed - we let Jesus speak to believe that. We believe that Jesus said what he meant, and say what he said. I suppose that what we do better in the recognition of metaphor to make melted - we know that God is not running dinosaurs chasing Adam, and we also know that Jesus meant what he said absolutely about being literally food and drink.
Fundi are like the disciples who abandoned Jesus, saying: "This teaching is difficult, it can accept this?" (John 6:60)
"Jesus said to them:" I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. "(John 6:36)
"Very truly, I say that whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert and died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one can eat and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh. "John 6:47 - 51)
"Then Jesus said to them, 'Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, has no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise up to the last day for my flesh is real food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in them. As the living Father sent me, and I live by the Father, so that whoever eats me will live through me. " John 6:53-57)
As for the Mass - which is not re-sacrificed Christ. It is the "once and for all" is made present the sacrifice of our own age. "The redemptive sacrifice of Christ is only done once and for all, but is present in the Eucharistic sacrifice of the Church." (CCC 1545)