Mass as a sacrifice?

[kdganey1991]

So I had a Protestant on CA offer me this as evidence against the mass as a sacrifice. Now I am following the argument where it leads, i’m not trolling. Is there any good response to these verses?

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Matthew_28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 10:10 So we are made holy because Christ obeyed God and offered himself once for all. 11 The priests do their work each day, and they keep on offering sacrifices that can never take away sins. 12 But Christ offered himself as a sacrifice that is good forever. Now he is sitting at God’s right side, 13 and he will stay there until his enemies are put under his power. 14 By his one sacrifice he has forever set free from sin the people he brings to God.

1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

2Co 5:15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

 

[Gorgias]

Invite 'em to the other thread you’ve started, and in which replies have already started trickling in.

If they’re interested in an answer, they’ll participate. If they’re just interested in cherry-picking, and trying to subvert your faith, they won’t – “by their fruits you will know them”…!

 

[Crumpy]

Jesus said at the “last supper” (a term not in the Bible) that the cup of his blood was the blood of the new and eternal covenant.

Covenants are sealed with a sacrifice and a meal, and we join into that covenant not in a symbolic way, but in a real way, as Jesus intended. The truth is in Jesus’ words.

Jesus established the liturgical, non-bloody form of the covenant meal and who are we to disagree?

 

[Todd_Easton]

The sacrificial nature of the Mass (or the Lord’s Supper, as in 1 Cor 11:20) is fairly clear in 1 Corinthians 10:14-21, where it is compared favorably to the altar sacrifices of ancient Israel to the Lord and contrasted with the sacrifices of pagans to idols. There, in context, the phrases “the table of the Lord” and “the cup of the Lord” refer to the food and drink, the broken bread and blessed wine, sacrificed to the Lord which Christian worshipers then partake of as an expression of their partnership with the Lord, whereas idol worshipers sacrifice food and drink to demons on “the table of demons” and in “the cup of demons” and then partake of as an expression of their partnership with demons.

From Malachi 1:7, we see that “the table of the Lord” is synonymous with “the altar of the Lord.”