Acts 15: 20, 29?

[caletulch]

During my religion class, we were going over the letter the Apostles sent to the Gentiles via Paul and Barnabas. within this letter, it teaches the Gentiles to abstain from idols, unlawful marriages, meat from stangled animals, and blood. our teacher explained that some pagan cults drank the blood of their sacrifices and/or “god”, but wouldn’t that mean that the Eucharist is not allowed since it is the blood of our sacficie and God, Jesus?
im way confused on this, all help is welcomed!

May the Lord bless and keep you all the days of your life
Jeff

 

[Tim_Kirchoff]

During my religion class, we were going over the letter the Apostles sent to the Gentiles via Paul and Barnabas. within this letter, it teaches the Gentiles to abstain from idols, unlawful marriages, meat from stangled animals, and blood. our teacher explained that some pagan cults drank the blood of their sacrifices and/or “god”, but wouldn’t that mean that the Eucharist is not allowed since it is the blood of our sacficie and God, Jesus?
im way confused on this, all help is welcomed!

May the Lord bless and keep you all the days of your life
Jeff

It is sort of a warning not to fall back into pagan practices, which would be in violation of the first commandment.

 

[MH84]

I hope this helps

From the Catechism (get yourself a copy btw if you can)

1376 The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation."206

1381 "That in this sacrament are the true Body of Christ and his true Blood is something that ‘cannot be apprehended by the senses,’ says St. Thomas, ‘but only by faith, which relies on divine authority.’ For this reason, in a commentary on Luke 22:19 (‘This is my body which is given for you.’), St. Cyril says: ‘Do not doubt whether this is true, but rather receive the words of the Savior in faith, for since he is the truth, he cannot lie.’"212

Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore
Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more,
See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart
Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.
Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived;
How says trusty hearing? that shall be believed;
What God’s Son has told me, take for truth I do;
Truth himself speaks truly or there’s nothing true.213

Read the rest here if you want

 

[banjo]

During my religion class, we were going over the letter the Apostles sent to the Gentiles via Paul and Barnabas. within this letter, it teaches the Gentiles to abstain from idols, unlawful marriages, meat from stangled animals, and blood. our teacher explained that some pagan cults drank the blood of their sacrifices and/or “god”, but wouldn’t that mean that the Eucharist is not allowed since it is the blood of our sacficie and God, Jesus?
im way confused on this, all help is welcomed!

May the Lord bless and keep you all the days of your life
Jeff

The following is from This is My Body; Mark P. Shea p. 25ff…

“The contention that the Real Presence contradicts scriptural injunctions against eating blood has always struck me as futile. To my mind, few things were more obvious than that Jesus, in Mark 7:17-19, removed all Old Testament dietary restrictions. This left the Council of Jerusalem’s letter to Gentile Christians as the sole place in the New Testament where I could find the barest thread of a law against eating blood. Yet is seems clear to me that the purpose of this injunction was not to override Christ’s declaration, but to prevent wounding the conscience of the Jewish Community (see v. 21). The Council was actually performing an act of charity in response to a particular cultural setting, not laying down an eternal decree. This is borne out by the writings of one of the key figures in that Council, the Apostle Paul. He unhesitatingly states in 1 Cor 8 that food sacrified to idols (another item according to the Jerusalem Council) is utterly harmless except for its power to defile the conscience of the weaker brother. And he reiterates this in Romans 14:14 with the words, ‘As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself.’ All this, plus the fact that virtually no Christian I know would think twice about eating a juicy red sirloin…”