THE AWFUL BLASPHEMY OF THE CATHOLIC MASS
The Mass offers bread and wine pretended to be flesh and blood and pretends to offer Jesus as a sacrifice to God.
Genesis however tells us, "Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him."
The moral is that the person who does not offer blood sacrifice to God offends him as a person and the offering offends too. Cain's implied rejection of God led him to murder and evil. God does not like peaceful sacrifices so the warning is that religious evil is a guard against worst evil. This implies a lot of terrible things about the Mass - it is the modern Cain sacrifice.
Rev John O’Brien, The Faith of Millions,
When the priest pronounces the tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up
into the heavens, brings Christ down from His throne, and places Him upon our
altar to be offered up again as the Victim for the sins of man. It is a power
greater than that of monarchs and emperors: it is greater than that of saints
and angels, greater than that of Seraphim and Cherubim. Indeed it is greater
even than the power of the Virgin Mary. While the Blessed Virgin was the human
agency by which Christ became incarnate a single time, the priest brings Christ
down from heaven, and renders Him present on our altar as the eternal Victim for
the sins of man—not once but a thousand times! The priest speaks and lo! Christ,
the eternal and omnipotent God, bows His head in humble obedience to the
priest’s command.
THE MASS IS IDOLATRY
God told Cyrus that though he was a sincere worshipper of Marduk that he did not know the true God (Isaiah 45:5,6). And there wasn’t much to know then for it was simple: there was one God and he authored the Torah. There has been a lot more to learn and know since!
Paul told the Athenians that when they worshiped what they called the unknown God they were adoring his God implying that when they honoured the other gods that they didn’t contact him (Acts 17:23). The Bible says that the Israelites did what was evil in God’s sight and they worshipped the Baals and abandoned him. This text denies that the worship of other gods is somehow the worship of the real God. It is not indirect or implicit or confused worship of God. It is not worship of God full stop.
The honour given to false gods and idols belongs to Satan (1 Corinthians 10:19, 20). To adore the Eucharist is to adore the Devil.
Jesus said that the abomination of desolation mentioned in Daniel was yet to come. The Mass could be this abomination. Nothing else fits.
WHY THE MASS IS MORALLY OFFENSIVE
The Roman Catholic Church says that God can turn bread and wine into his son so
that they are not bread and wine at all any more but Jesus. This doctrine is
called transubstantiation. God performs this change when the Catholic priest
blesses bread and wine on the altar at Mass. The food and drink are taken as
communion - something that really and truly unites people together and to God.
The Catholic Mass is a good proof of the power of self-deception. The communion
wafer has none of the characteristics of living things. It doesn't excrete or
breath etc. Yet it is alive according to the Church. The Mass makes nonsense of
science. The believer knows it's not alive but that does not stop him worshipping
it. It's idolatry pure and simple.
If the Catholic communion wafers are not God then the worship cannot go to God
even if the Catholic wants the worship to if he or she happens to be wrong about
the wafers being God. With Catholic communion it is claimed that we are
what we eat. Catholics consume Jesus to become him. So if it is mere
bread then it is idolatry of the worst kind. It is better to worship a
frogs backside as God than to depend on consuming as God in human flesh that
which is not God.
JESUS WOULD NOT EMPOWER CLERICS!
The Bible warns about religious leaders and how clever they can be when doing
Satan’s work which aims to destroy and corrupt God’s truth. In the Bible way,
you must only follow human leaders when you are sure they really stand for the
word of God. But the Catholic Church says that we must by obligation attend Mass
once a week at least for Jesus is physically present at Mass. This rule makes
corruption of the people so much easier for they don’t want to be looked down on
for not attending and they have to listen to the sermon. The rule is dangerous
therefore Jesus did not institute the Mass. It would be a sin to go to a Church
where there was no Mass if you are a Catholic for it’s Mass you should be going
to. Moreover we see that the Mass gains respect for the priest. And we are sure
of that but we have no reason to be as sure that Jesus really gets anything from
it. So it benefits the Church leadership mostly for that very reason. It is a
power tool.
God would ask us to serve him in our neighbour and go no further with that for
his burden has to be as light as he can make it for simplicity is a virtue
especially in a busy world. But the Mass creates a whole pile of new rules, go
to Mass every Sunday, don’t treat communion wafers with disrespect, receive once
a year at least, pray to the Blessed Sacrament and visit it. Anything that does
that encourages sin because it gives us more to sin about. The gospel Jesus had
very little time for rules. He said things about himself in the synagogue that
were considered sacrilegious for it was a holy meeting house and did it at the
start of his ministry when he had given no evidence that the things he was
saying were true.
THE RISK PROBLEM
Assuming that the Catholic dogma is true that you have to have the right
intention to ordain a priest or to turn bread and wine into the body and blood
of Christ then it will happen that times this fails to take place through a
defect of intention. The Church annuls a lot of marriages on the grounds that
the marriage was not entered into with genuine freedom. It would be the same
with many ordinations to the priesthood. Many enter it because they feel they
are gay or because their families coerce them. Some want to pretend to help
people while feeding them religion that they secretly believe is insidious
poison. The latter was my reason. Some priests are really atheists and never
intended to be validly ordained. In other words, ordinations should be annulled
as well as marriages. The result is that if Jesus put the Eucharist of
transubstantiation into the hands of the priests he would have been exposing the
people to the danger of adoring a Eucharist that was not his body and blood at
all. Considering the absolute horror with which the Bible consistently regards
the crime of idolatry it is improbable that this risk would have been taken.
Either Jesus will consecrate the bread and wine himself without needing a priest
or we will not receive the true Eucharist until after the resurrection.
The Bible says that man is totally depraved and hates God though he fakes
service and love to him (Romans 1, 3) and that is why trying to earn salvation
through the Law of Moses as the Jews do is so futile. How then could God expect
us to trust priests to turn bread and wine into Jesus? Evil men like others to
be as bad as themselves so they would be eager to fake the transformation so
that their flock would be deprived of divine aid and fall into vice. A God with
intense aversion to idolatry would hardly set up such a scheme.
Religion says that God being a man of flesh and blood, Jesus Christ, means
that when you worship his bodily presence in holy communion you worship God. To
worship the blood or his body is to worship God. But that may be okay in theory
but it is not very clear. It is not practical. Nobody understands it and
nobody pretends to. If a man can think he loves his wife when he actually loves
her beauty and charm how much more likely is it to mean to worship body and
blood as in idolatry. The concept of worshipping the body of God does not mean
you can or intend to worship God. It may be possible but that does not
mean anybody has done it yet.
MASS IS OF ANTICHRIST!
The Apostle Paul told his hearers that if he himself or any Church teacher or
even an angel taught a different gospel to what he was teaching then, then that
one is to be accursed (Galatians 1:8). This suggests that he feared apostasy was
about to happen in a horrendous and large-scale way.
He also said he wanted to go to Jesus but this desire conflicted with his desire
to be with his people in the flesh to teach them. He described this as being
necessary for them. He speaks as if he can’t be done without (Philippians 1:22).
This does not indicate confidence in the Church to keep to the gospel.
The First Epistle of John says that whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ is
an antichrist. It declares as well that those who deny that that he came in the
flesh is Antichrist.
Antichrist means in the place of Christ. The antichrist is only against Christ
in the sense that whoever tries to stand in Jesus’ place without his
authorisation is disobeying him. The disobedience must do serious harm so by
implication antichrist means a teacher whose doctrines will draw you to Hell and
keep y you away form the saving power of Jesus.
The Catholic priesthood claims to act in the person of Christ. It gives no
genuine evidence of any biblical authority for that at all. That is enough to
mark it as antichrist.
The Church claims that the bread and wine of the Eucharist becomes the body and
blood of Christ. This is a physical change but the Church says no physical
change will be found. So this is a change that isn’t a change.
The Church is really saying that Jesus is not a body. Thus it is antichrist.
There's more! The Roman Catholic Church agrees with the New Testament which says
that Christians experience the risen Jesus within their hearts and so are
witnesses to his resurrection. Does Jesus then somewhere physically dwell in our
hearts? Our hearts are really symbols of our spiritual soul which we supposedly
have. The Eucharist is no good unless Jesus goes into our souls. But what need
would the soul have for his body and blood? It cannot ingest them! Again is the
Church indicating that Jesus’ body and blood are not physical but spiritual - in
other words, not real flesh and blood.
There is less idolatry in a Hindu worshipping a statue believing that his God
inhabits it than in a Catholic worshipping the communion wafer that undergoes a
non-change into the body of Christ! Some idolaters think that the image only
seems to be of stone or wood or whatever and these are illusions for its true
nature is as a living magical being. If they are still considered worshippers of a
stone or wood what does that make of the Catholics? They worship bread and wine
and call them Jesus. But it is still bread and wine they worship. This is quite
deliberate for they only pretend they are Jesus. We can mistake pretending for
believing. Try this with the door stop. Pretend it's alive and you will see that
it soon feels like believing.
The pope considers himself to be the head of the Church. His major doctrine is
that he is the boss and that his Church turns bread and wine into Jesus. Those
are major points in the Roman Catholic gospel. The pope with his bishops demand
that even if the apostles themselves came back to life, they would be obliged to
be subject to them and would have no authority to teach unless they gave them a
mandate to. And Peter, the alleged first pope, would be subject as well for the
Church says he ceased to be pope at his death. The apostles declared that should
they themselves or an angel from Heaven change anything in the gospel they
taught then they must be anathema - utterly cursed (Galatians 1). The Bible says
that some angels are really God himself in angelic form. So the apostles were
very extreme in the obedience they expected. The pope expects that obedience
today - he claims to have their power. So if you die and go to Heaven and you
find out from Jesus that the Catholic faith was wrong you are to tell him to
f**k off. See the point? The Church has used the anathema to condemn those who
disagreed with it in doctrine up to and including Vatican I. This is an
affirmation of that very idea that Jesus himself must be opposed rather than
admit the Church is wrong. And if you are wrong and go to Jesus with that
attitude, it is certain you will be damned for all eternity if he really is the
saviour. The Mass then expresses opposition to Jesus if he disapproves of it. It
contains implicit hatred.
The Roman Catholic Church has turned the Eucharist into the sign of the
Antichrist and the abomination of desolation.
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