I have read God's word for myself. Clearly you have not. I have quoted God's word to you in the last several posts to destroy what your men have taught you.
You really think so? I know that most non-Catholics here would not believe a word of what you offered by way of so called "scriptural" excuses. None of them hold water.
Your branch started 1,800+ years after the death of Christ. Does that concern you Jane?
No, it confirms my beliefs actually. A study in Daniel reveals why. At this "time of the end" there was to be a "cleansing, whitening and refining" of God's worship.....this proves that what went before was filled with all manner of filth and impurities. (Dan 12:9-10) Guess where they came from...? not us.
Whom do you trust more when interpreting Scripture? The men who were students of the Apostles OR your men who interpreted Scripture 1,800+ years later? Your foundation started in the 1870's. I can show you that mine started 2,000 years ago.
The men who began your own church may have been educated by those who were educated by some of the apostles, but don't forget that being educated by Jesus himself did not stop Judas from his defection.
A falling away was foretold and it happened just as it was prophesied......your church pretends that it didn't....and goes right on teaching what Christ never did.
I don't think God cares what shape the Eucharist is and Scripture does not tell us what shape it is required to be. The Church uses unleavened bread to make it, just like the bread Christ used at the last supper. Archaeological research demonstrate the round form of the Eucharist from pictures found in the catacombs, and Pope St. Zephyrinus (A. D. 201-219) calls the altar-bread "coronam sive oblatam sphericae figurae". There is zero evidence that it was intently made in the shape of the sun to honor the Roman sun god.
Now this one really made me smile.....God
doesn't care what shape the bread is and that is the point. Your church apparently does, and it is shaped like the sun....Roman sun worship dictated it, as it did with its unholy Sabbath observance on a Sunday....which is NOT the 7th day of the week of the week, is it? Where is the authorization to change the Jewish Sabbath? And where will I find any command for Christians to observe it anyway?
As for you quote from pope whatshisname...who "calls the altar-bread "coronam sive oblatam sphericae figurae". Look that up and you will see that he made reference to "the figure of a sphere".....exactly what shape the sun is. Hellooooo.....
And the fact that it is called "alter bread" should also raise some eyebrows, because the Christians had no earthly temple and hence no priesthood or alter at which to serve same.
The Lord's last Passover meal was the precursor for the Lord's Memorial, to be held annually as a remembrance of Christ's sacrifice....it replaced the Passover because Christ is the true Passover Lamb. His blood is figuratively on the door posts of every genuine Christian's home.
So there is no precedent for holding this as a weekly observance. Those who partake of the bread and the wine must do so in full knowledge of what it means....no Catholic can possibly do so because they are not taught the truth about Christ at all....and most have no idea even why he had to come to earth as a human and sacrifice his life for us. That would prevent them taking the bread and wine in a worthy way. (1 Cor 11:27-29) Those who do so will not go unpunished.