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I already do. But it's not literal blood and flesh. We are not cannibals.

It's not an empty ritual in protestant churches even though we don't believe it's literal blood and flesh.

Obeying the commandments, if one could do it perfectly, would save no one. Anything not done from faith is sin. So you can do great good works sinfully. The law never saved anyone.

You are going off topic. The question is whether the sacraments are necessary for salvation. The answer is still no. Jesus is the narrow way. I totally agree it's narrow, it's not what people nearly always try to make it, grace plus works, grace plus good deeds or grace plus ritual. It's by...

Literal blood and flesh?

So? It tells us what is needed for salvation. And noted Greek scholars have maintained that the Greek preposition eis in Acts 2:38 should be translated “because of” or “in view of,” and not “in order to,” or “for the purpose of.” They were baptized because of thier repentance. Not in order to...

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:24 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 1 Corinthians 6:20 But he was...

I thought they had to change to blood and flesh according to original Catholic doctrine.

That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

Don't know what this means? Change bread and wine into bread and wine? Seems redundant.

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to in the one he has sent.” 35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. Not works. Belief alone saves.

Exactly, the water does nothing. It's the appeal to God that is required and through Christ's resurrection that we are saved.

By the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; by the former is meant, not the ordinance of water baptism; for that is never expressed by washing, nor is it the cause or means of regeneration; the cause being the Spirit of God, and the means the word of God: and besides, persons...

God saves. The condition for salvation is faith in Jesus as our savior/ Messiah/ Redeemer and King. Nothing needs to be added.

How can the Eucharist save anyone? The people Jesus told this to had not been given any instructions about the Eucharist. Were they to understand what no one taught them? No, they came to him for perishable food and he told them he was the food that would bring them eternal life. Belief in him...

That isn't in the Bible. It's a man-made doctrine. Plenty of people in the Bible were saved without baptism. "He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit," "Because, if you confess...

Eating the flesh and drinking the blood are not references to the Eucharist there. And yes Peter told them to be baptized, but the important part was the repentance. Baptism is the outward symbol, not the act of repentance itself.

He did pay off our debt. But there are conditions we have to meet to be given this gift.

Yes, they were justified by faith. By believing the promise God made about Messiah.

Hmmm...not saying dat, I mean that you aren't partially right, but Isaiah does indeed indicate that God was pleased to crush Christ on the cross. From my point of view, this is not some kind of cosmic child abuse, but a collaboration between Father and son on behalf of humanity. So it's not just...