The Eucharist symbolizes the sacrifice of Christ. Enjoying a meal commemorating that event is not in itself the *sacrifice of Christ!*
You are not defending the Scriptures when you misrepresent them. When Christ says something obviously intended to be taken as symbolic, you fail to properly represent what he was saying.
As an example, you're like those who misinterpreted Jesus in the following account:
John 6.41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”...
Jesus was *not* saying he literally descended from heaven *physically!* And yet Jesus' detractors thought to catch him in his words, fabricating stories. He was actually only stating, figuratively, that he originated from heaven, even though he was born on earth literally.
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
We know full well that Jesus was not speaking of cannibalism! Nor was he saying that he was literally *bread!* And yet that's how his detractors thought to accuse him, of failing to literally interpret his own symbolic words!
And that's also what you're doing brother, accusing me of failing to properly interpret Jesus' symbolic words literally. Clearly, if Jesus meant his words to be taken symbolically, and he did, then it's you who are trying to confuse not just what he said, but also what he meant!
The principle of determining whether language is meant to be taken figuratively or literally is easy. If something doesn't make sense literally, it is meant to be taken figuratively.
In this case, Jesus meant to say that the wine represented his blood, because it doesn't make sense for him to say that his own blood was in the cup they were drinking. And yet you defy the laws of logic in language use to uphold a mystical interpretation in order to make Catholicism the exclusive source of Salvation.
How disrespectful to Christ, and how idolatrous is that! Christ alone is the source of Salvation through his sacrifice. The distributors of Communion are not the source of Salvation, but are only facilitating a ceremony to commemorate the fact Jesus became our Salvation on the cross.
You are engaging in religious idolatry, and glorifying Man instead of God, instead of God's Christ! You really must turn from Man and turn to God alone. He alone is our God!
the historic Christian Faith!
Matthew 26:26
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this ismy body.
not just a commemoration meal
it is the new covenant Passover sacrifice of christ
you could not just kill the lamb and spread it’s blood on the door post
You had to eat the lamb!
It is the sacrifice of Christ!
Mosaic: covenant
Exodus 12
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Offering of the liturgy!
The holy sacrifice of Jesus Christ!
Luke 22:19 “do this in memory of me”!
The Passover
(The new covenant Passover sacrifice of Christ)
“It is finished” not the redemptive work of Christ but the Passover sacrifice!
The cup refers to the Passover
The sacrifice prefigured the sacrifice of Christ
Christ was celebrating the Passover and changing it into the new covenant Passover in his own body and blood
Began in the last supper with the psalm then to the garden and ended with his death in the cross with the words commanded to be said at the consummation of the Passover sacrifice by the high priest “IT IS FINISHED”!!!
jn 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
1 cor 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
1 cor 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
Notice the connection to his betrayal and death
1 cor 5:6-8
For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast
So
The Passover
(The new covenant Passover sacrifice of Christ)
The cup refers to the Passover
The sacrifice prefigured the sacrifice of Christ
Christ was celebrating the Passover and changing it into the new covenant Passover in his own body and blood
Began in the last supper with the psalm then to the garden and ended with his death in the cross with the words commanded to be said at the consummation of the Passover sacrifice by the high priest “IT IS FINISHED”!!!
jn 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
1 cor 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
1 cor 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
Notice the connection to his betrayal and death
1 cor 5:6-8
For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast
So the it in “it is finished” is not the work of redemption but the Passover sacrifice!
but something is missing we have to eat the lamb
jn 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
“It is finished” the Passover sacrifice!
Consummation of the new Passover or the beginning of the new and eternal covenant!