The Blasphemous Catholic Mass

The Evils of the blasphemous Catholic Mass

“And when the hour came, he sat down, and the twelve Apostles with him; and he said to them, “With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer: for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it, until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.” And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves: for I say to you: I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of God shall come.” And he took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave to them, saying, “This is a symbol of my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is a symbol of the New Covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.” Luke 22:14-20

“For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread; and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat: this is a symbol of my body, which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of me.” After the same manner also he took the cup, after he had eaten, saying, “This cup is a symbol of the New Covenant in my blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you are celebrating the death of the Lord until he comes again.” I Corinthians 11:23-26

The argument among professing Christians over the meaning of Christ’s words “This is my body” has raged for many centuries. But among Bible-believing Christians, there really is no argument over what He meant.

Jesus handed his disciples pieces of broken bread, not a circular wafer, as commonly seen in Catholic and Protestant churches. Circular wafers were also used by pagan Egyptian worshipers of the sun-god Ra in ancient times (the circular wafer represented the Sun - which they believed was a god). So by “eating their god”, they were being “saved” and getting closer to their god (which was really just the devil). It was a form of “communion” with “Ra”, the Egyptian demon god.

This is exactly the same meaning that the Roman Catholic religion attaches to "the Mass": the priest "commands Jesus" ("hocus pocus") to magically transform Himself into a piece of bread (the round wafer) and the wine supposedly changes into the Blood of Christ. This is called "transubstantiation": the wafer becomes the literal Body and bones of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the wine becomes the literal Blood of Jesus Christ.

Now, without directly addressing the utterly blasphemous assumption that a mere man (the Catholic priest) can "command God" to do anything at all (which is utterly impossible, because God is absolutely Sovereign and takes no orders from anyone), and also the blasphemous and wicked concept of "eating the actual body and blood of Jesus" (like a pagan cannibal) the reality is that this "transformation" does NOT actually happen, which every Roman Catholic knows, because when the wafer is placed in their mouth, they do not taste human flesh, but bread; and when they take a sip of the wine, they do not taste blood, but wine. But they are told by their priest that it is the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, so they must believe (in spite of the evidence of their taste buds to the contrary) that it is true. This is called "Dogma": there is no evidence whatsoever that Transubstantiation is true; but the supposedly infallible popes claim that it is true on their own authority, so Catholics are forced to choose between two unpleasant courses of action:

1) "My church is teaching a damnable heresy and cannot be true, because my taste buds tell me that transubstantiation is false, but the priest (who is supposedly another "Jesus") tells me that it is true. But if I leave the Catholic church, I will lose all my friends and my family will disown me, etc."

2) "The Bible can't be true, because my priest is teaching things that contradict the Bible; so I must put all of my faith and trust in a mere man to guide me to Heaven, even though there is no evidence from the Bible that supports this course of action."

Now some Roman Catholics I have spoken to claim that the Catholic religion does not teach transubstantiation; but in fact it does. All you have to do is find a Catholic Dictionary and look it up. Their ignorance of their own religion's teaching does not mean that their claim to the contrary is correct. Transubstantiation was made official Roman Catholic doctrine by the Council of Trent; and it has never been repudiated by any pope; and the pope (according to Catholic teaching) is the source and the basis for all Catholic belief.

"Transubstantiation (Latin: transsubstantiatio; Greek: μετουσίωσις metousiosis) is, according to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, the change of substance or essence by which the bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of the sacrament of the Eucharist during the Mass, become, in reality, the body and blood of Jesus Christ." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation

Transubstantiation is a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines this doctrine in section 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.’" https://www.gotquestions.org/transubstantiation.html

But if you want to be Biblical in your beliefs, you have to follow what the Bible actually says, not what your religion tells you that you must believe no matter what the Bible actually says. That is what the Catholic religion calls “Dogma”.

I am a Bible-believing, born-again Christian; therefore I want to follow Christ in his words and deeds, as the Bible reveals them, to the extent that is possible for a saved sinner. That means that if I celebrate the Lord’s Supper/Table, then I must use broken bread, not a circular wafer, which came from pagan worship of the devil.

Broken bread symbolized his body, which was broken on the cross for our salvation. The circular wafer is unbroken, which is the opposite of the words of Jesus; and therefore it is unbiblical. I don’t have space here to expand too much on the theological meaning of the unbroken wafer, but basically (if used to symbolize the unbroken body of Jesus) it says that the body of Jesus was not broken on the cross (i.e. He didn’t die for our sins); and therefore salvation is not by Jesus, but by our own works of some kind.

The Catholic religion teaches salvation by works, through self-effort and through the “church” (as if it were some kind of heavenly Ark, like Noah's Ark: join the Catholic religion, be baptized, take “the mass” regularly, “be a good person”, and you might make it to Heaven, if you’ve been “good enough”, and done enough good works. In other words, Catholicism is a religion of works, which is the opposite of what the Bible teaches.

“For by grace you have been permanently saved through faith; and that faith is not out of yourselves: it is the gift of God; not of our own works, lest any man should boast” (Romans 2:8-9)

“not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us; by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.” (Titus 3:5-6)

This is a basic reason for their use of an unbroken wafer: according to Catholic teaching, you can’t be saved through faith in Christ alone: you have to keep taking the “mass” and do good works in order to earn salvation (which is false). This teaching is faith in Christ + individual good works = salvation in Heaven, perhaps. In other words, you can't be certain that you will be saved, even if you do everything that the Catholic religion says, because how many individual works are needed before you can be saved? There is no way to know how many good works would be required, so logically this path to Heaven will take you to Hell instead!

The Body of Jesus (not his bones) was broken on the cross for our sins. So when Jesus broke the bread and handed the pieces to his disciples, He was performing a symbolic act that was a picture of what He would accomplish on the cross for our sins.

On the other hand, an unbroken wafer symbolizes the Roman Catholic teaching that what Jesus did on the cross was NOT GOOD ENOUGH to save anyone: that we must trust in a daily reception of the wafer in the Mass, PLUS doing good works, PLUS walking in obedience to the commands of the Popes and the priests.

So Transubstantiation is actually a blasphemous ceremony that says, "Jesus did NOT do enough on the cross to save you. You must eat the mass wafer every day, plus be a good Catholic, plus obey the priests and popes if you want to have any hope of making it to Heaven."

In fact, the Catholic Mass is a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus on the cross: without blood, and without any conclusion, because it continues daily around the world, hundreds of thousands of times a day.

But this goes against the plain teaching of Holy Scripture, which says,

"but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins into perpetuity, sat down on the right hand of God, from henceforth waiting until his enemies are made his footstool: for BY A SINGLE OFFERING he has perfected into perpetuity them that are being sanctified." Hebrews 10:12-14 (my emphasis)

"Nor yet that he should offer himself many times, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others (for then must he have suffered many times since the beginning of the universe), but now ONCE FOR ALL TIME in the consummation of the Ages, he has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
And as it is appointed to men once to die (but after this the Judgment), so also Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look for him shall he appear the second time apart from sin unto salvation." Hebrews 9:25-28

We can only be saved by faith alone in the Finished Work of Jesus Christ on the cross, PLUS NOTHING! The Finished Work of Jesus is like a package that was prepared by God, complete and indivisible, needing nothing at all; and offered by Jesus to all who will BELIEVE in Him:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have Everlasting Life." John 3:16

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is no other Name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12

“But what does it say? “The Word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart”; that is to say, the Word of faith (which we preach), that if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved: for with the heart man believes into righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made into salvation: for the Scripture says, “Whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.” For there is no difference between the Jew and the Gentile: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him: for it is written, “whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:8-13

“Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me: for I am meek and lowly in heart. And you shall find rest to your souls: for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30

The pure “fruit of the vine” was grape juice, not fermented wine with alcohol. Leaven (which is yeast) added to grape juice and allowed to ferment produces alcoholic wine. Alcohol is always associated with ungodliness, whether it is in the Bible or in the bar. Anyone who has ever been to a busy bar can testify to the foul language and wicked discussions and wicked acts which accompany it, such as fornication, adultery, fighting that leads to injury or even death, and so on. This is not something that God wants us to consume in the process of celebrating the crucifixion of the pure and Holy Son of God Almighty for our sins.

“And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took both of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it; and they offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he did not command them to do. And fire went out from Jehovah, and devoured them; and they died before Jehovah.” (Leviticus 10:1-2)

And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, saying, “Drink no wine or alcohol; neither you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die. It shall be a Statute forever throughout your generations, so that you may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean; and so that you may teach the children of Israel all the Statutes which Jehovah has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.” (Leviticus 10:8-11)

This passage from Leviticus is something that every wine-drinking “Christian” needs to read and understand. Nadab and Abihu were burnt to a crisp and died by the fire of Jehovah, because they offered “strange fire” before Jehovah; and also because they had been drinking alcohol. This event teaches us a very important lesson: alcohol is unholy to God. God doesn’t want us to consume it, because it separates us from Him.

In other passages in the Law of Moses, God allowed the common people to consume “strong drink”, but they were not Levites, who were responsible for ministering before Jehovah and handling the holy things of God on a daily basis. The lesson: if you want to be close to God, stay away from alcohol of any kind. If you want to be worldly and far away from God, then drink booze. God wants his children to walk close to Him, so the choice is clear for those who love God.

What about drugs? Alcohol is a drug, so can we take drugs as a Christian? Yes, if they are for medicinal purposes, and not for “recreation”. God is not against medicine; God gave us medicine to help treat our aches, pains, and diseases. It is only when those things are abused and used for “pleasure” that using medicine becomes a sin and makes you an abomination to God.

“It is not right for kings, O Lemuel, it is not right for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to drink strong drink, lest they drink, and forget the Law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. Give alcohol to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those that are of heavy hearts. Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.” (Proverbs 31:4-7)

“And be not drunk with wine (in which is excess), but be continually filled with the Spirit: speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things to God and the Father in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” (Ephesians 5:18 - 21)

“He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man; he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.” (Proverbs 21:17)

“Wine is a mocker, and strong drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived by these is not wise.” (Proverbs 20:1)

“Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? They that linger long at the wine: they that go to seek mixed wine.” (Proverbs 23:29 -30)

“Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it gives his color in the cup, when it moves itself aright. At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder. Your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things. Moreover, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a ship’s mast. You shall say, “They have smitten me, but I was not sick; they have beaten me, but I did not feel anything. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.” (Proverbs 23:31 - 35)

“Be not among winedrinkers, or among profligate eaters of flesh: for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe you with rags.” (Proverbs 23:20 - 21)

But more to the point of this passage: wine should never be used during the celebration of the Lord's Table or Communion, because it contains the alcoholic remains of fermentation because of leaven or yeast. Leaven is a perfect symbol of corruption and sin in the Bible. It is not a symbol of something that is good!

"Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump of dough? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us; therefore let us keep the feast; but not with old leaven; neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

Only pure, non-alcoholic grape juice should be used in the Lord's Table, because it is pure, like the pure and holy Blood of Jesus Christ.

On top of that, giving an alcoholic beverage to anyone is a wicked thing! It is placing a stumblingblock before Christians and young people, that will likely lead to many of them becoming alcoholics. I believe that any church that would serve liquor to their members will receive the wrath of God, because of all of the evil that flows from liquor.

"Woe to him that gives his neighbor an alcoholic drink; and that puts your bottle to him, and also makes him drunk, that you may look on their nakedness! You are filled with shame instead of glory. You drink also, and let your foreskin be uncovered. The cup of Jehovah’s right hand shall be turned to you, and shameful spewing shall be on your glory." Habakkuk 2:15-16