Aineo wrote:arunangelo wrote:Jesus is not asking us to violate the law. He asks us to eat His body, in the form of bread and drink His blood in the form of wine. Bread and wine are normal human food, they are non bloody food. Furthermore, just by you calling Eucharist pagan practice does not make it pagan.
You are not reading my posts or you would have read that I do not disagree with the Eucharist per se, what I and other non-Catholics disagree with is transubstantiation, which is bloody and is a concept imported from paganism.
RCC teaches that Eucharist is pure and non-bloody. When you say transubstantiation is bloody, you are telling a lie.
When Jesus said, love your enemy, do good to those who hurt you and forgive others seventy-times-seventy was He going against the old testament law that said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth?
When Jesus walked the earth the Jews did not have the authority to obey an eye for an eye, which is why the high priest had to appeal to Rome to crucify Jesus. Also the law permitted (the law did not command) an eye for an eye.
So then, are you saying that old testament laws permitting revenge, changed? Does that mean that not all old testament laws came from God?
As to Vatican II, which instituted Catholicism's entry into the ecumenical movement this totally contradicts the anathema's of the Council of Trent, which demonstrates Catholicism is hypocritical since Vatican II affirmed the anathema's of the Council of Trent. Pius XII speaking ex-cathedra declared that belief in the ascension of Mary is required for salvation, which contradicts Biblical truth as does transubstantiation.