Originally Posted by
Ruckmanite
Before the law, abstain from blood. Under the law, abstain from blood. In Acts, abstain from blood.
Now the Eucharist has a priest take fermented wine and a cookie, say hocus pocus, and shazam, he calls Christ from heaven, crucifies him again, and magically transforms the cookie into Christ's flesh and the wine into his blood, which we were commanded to abstain from.
So, once again, what happens to Christ after his blood and flesh go through the human digestive process?
You got it. Holy crap.
It is figurative, not literal. We are not cannibals, and we receive Christ by faith, not a cookie from a priest who is likely a sodomite. Moreover, the priesthood ended when when the veil was torn from top to bottom after Jesus died on the cross, showing that we could boldly approach the throne of grace, without the need of a priest.
Jesus Christ was a prophet here. He is now our Great High Priest, and he will return as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
The Eucharist is simply an Egyptian/Babylonian carryover that blended the pagan religions of sun worship into Christianity, and the outcome was the RCC.