Does God call people to be separate from Catholic Eucharist

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I’m doubting the claim that non-Catholic Christians are being poisoned because they don’t believe in transubstantiation.
So along with doubt you clearly didn’t understand my metaphor. It had to do with culpability.
 
The Scriptures point to Christ. He even chided the Jews for focusing too much on the words such that they were prevented from coming to Him.
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is that really what prevented them from believing ?

or was it errant understanding that became tradition?
Salvation is not “in the writ”, but the Holy Writings point to Him.
my point stands that whoever" reads/studies/immerse himself in Sacred Scriptures" can find life in Christ, and Resurrection power… that Christ could say that and Paul also, just as He said eating Him would also do likewise, ,being worded in other ways also, besides these two (writ and eating)
 
I don’t think so. If the writings were not accepted, they would not be considered Fathers, doctors of the Church, and saints. Not all of their opinions reflected the Apostolic faith, but that does not mean there is no value in what they wrote.
Understand, yet we agree not to accept opinions (as valid for teaching) that are not apostolic, or contrary to church decrees.
 
Are you saying that the Church ignored the Apostolic commandment to save the Teaching?
I am saying we know what apostles wrote, by tradition, still having their writings, but what was not written but is thought to be oral, we know by “tradition” alone
 
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Are you saying that the Church ignored the Apostolic commandment to save the Teaching?
I am saying we know what apostles wrote, by tradition, still having their writings, but what was not written but is thought to be oral, we know by “tradition” alone
Not exactly. We have Church Teaching which is able to Confirm what is Scripture and Sacred Tradition. They all work together, being different expressions of Christ’s revelation through His Church.
 
An example of the Sacrament of His Eucharist being connected to the John six “unless you eat my flesh…” is the washing of the disciple’s feet.

Peter refuses to allow Jesus to wash his feet. Jesus tells Peter, “If I do not wash you, you have no part in me.”

This is significant, because THOUGH there is figurative meaning, Jesus still tells Peter he must receive or he has no part in Jesus!
 
This is significant, because THOUGH there is figurative meaning, Jesus still tells Peter he must receive or he has no part in Jesus!
yes, very good thank you .Now still left with the “how” to eat Him, for we all do eat.
 
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This is significant, because THOUGH there is figurative meaning, Jesus still tells Peter he must receive or he has no part in Jesus!
yes, very good thank you .Now still left with the “how” to eat Him, for we all do eat.
Take, put in your mouth, chew, and swallow.
 
This is where it started from:
I was thinking of truth marching in a historical sense. I was wondering if you would agree that it began marching at Pentecost fully true, a faith that was all truth with nothing believed that was not true.

If we agree on that, then does it follow that faith that didn’t believe anything not true, at some point began believing things not true. Then that faith began believing more and more untrue things. Then if you would agree that since faith started out without believing in any untrue thing it isn’t reasonable to think that truth can march on to inform our faith until we are no longer believing untrue things.
I was under the impression that you were intimating that the Catholic Church embraced error and that it taught these errors as part of the “true faith.”

Perhaps this is not what you meant. But it is what I understood from the above.

The “cure” to this “error of the Catholic Church” is presented as the principle of ‘only what is found “explicitly” in Scriptures:’ aka ‘sola Scriptura.’

I apologize if that has not been your intent.

Maran atha!

Angel
 
Paul does somewhat implies this in His letter to Timothy I believe (that salvation is in Writ)…
Lets see:
15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice, 17 That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work. (2 Timothy 3)
Nope; Holy Writ is not the source of Life; rather, Holy Writ lead/instruct/is a means towards Salvation, which is found in Christ.

Yet, Believing in Christ, the source of Life, is not just having “knowledge” of Holy Writ!
Christ says what He says. We both can put hypos to try to negate anothers view…like hypothetically, “This is literally my body”, or, “This is substantively now my body”
Again, the Apostles did not Teach hypothetical/symbolic body of the Lord neither did Jesus:
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 giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat: this is my body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me. 25 In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me. 26 For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come. 27 Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 11)
St. Paul was not ordained by Christ to offer a symbolic or Holy Writ meaning; he was Commanded by the Lord to Partake of His Body and Blood–one cannot be guilty of the Lord’s Body and Blood if it is only a symbolic gesture of “remembrance.”

No matter how you want to spin it, Apostolic Teaching did not engage in hypos.

Maran atha!

Angel

Maran atha!

Angel
 
It is like going off to war, isn’t it.

People defend what they believe they are fighting for… but if you remove history their fight is for naught since they will be injecting into the war whatever they believe to be the “reason” for their entanglement.

By your definition we must hold all of the New Covenant’s Writing suspect.

Why?

Jesus did not employ a school of scribes to follow Him around and take down His every word.

Hence, all of the New Covenant’s Writing must be seen in that same void that you have expressed: nothing that was written is correct since it was only Oral Tradition.

Maran atha!

Angel
 
Paul was referring to Scripture which included the Hebrew texts, the Greek translation of these texts (Septuagint), and some of the Gospels and letters that were already written. In 1 Timothy 5:18, Paul cites Luke 10:7 as “Scripture.”

1 Timothy 5:18 New International Version (NIV)

18 For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,”[a] and “The worker deserves his wages.”

Footnotes:

a. 1 Timothy 5:18 Deut. 25:4

b. 1 Timothy 5:18 Luke 10:7

…actually, only when St. Peter addresses this issue does it become obvious that the Writings of the Apostles are being rejected (heretical teachings); yet, even if we were to assume that these are seen as Scriptures right from the get go, there’s no way that St. would be addressing Timothy about Scriptures that have just recently been inked as part of his early-childhood upbringing.

Sadly, it is a huge stretch that people make to place the New Covenant’s Writings in St. Paul’s mouth.

Maran atha!

Angel
 
Those theological disagreements are just academic debates. What really matters is if you have faith in Christ and seek to follow Him and give Him glory. So while we do hold slightly different understandings about some things, to most of us, it just isn’t that big of a deal.
It also means that when necessary non-Catholics can compartmentalize and place their this unity aside and join together to hold a community of “Christians.” However, why is it that the division between the 30,000 plus remains and continues to grow as more and more “bodies” arise?

If you truly held such “Christian unity” you would forgo all divisions; I presented the argument before: there would be only 2 divisions: Catholic Christians and non-Catholic Christians. Yet, when non-Catholics remain divided (not just from the Church) they are indeed not “one” body as in One Body.

Maran atha!

Angel
 
Yet, Believing in Christ, the source of Life, is not just having “knowledge” of Holy Writ!
Amen, and before any communion…yet by this belief in Christ you have eaten Him says Augustine…no teeh and belly needed!
 
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Please, give it a rest… do you know what “vocabulary” means?

Maran atha!

Angel
 
Wow you are stuck on this aren’t you? Congrats!, you know how to quote!

Here’s Jesus’: 'unless you eat My Flesh and Drink My Blood, you have not Life in you!

Ta-da! The God that Saves trumps the seeker theologian and his disciple… well, maybe his misquoting disciple as you keep missing:
ST. AUGUSTINE (c. 354 - 430 A.D.)
“That Bread which you see on the altar, having been sanctified by the word of God IS THE BODY OF CHRIST. That chalice, or rather, what is in that chalice, having been sanctified by the word of God, IS THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. Through that bread and wine the Lord Christ willed to commend HIS BODY AND BLOOD, WHICH HE POURED OUT FOR US UNTO THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.” (Sermons 227) (http://www.philvaz.com/apologetics/num30.htm)
Could your pride not be blinding you or are you misinterpreting/misunderstanding what you are quoting?

Maran atha!

Angel
 
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