Particular
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Again, your church badly misunderstands the Lord's supper. It misses it so badly that it turns it into legalistic works salvation. You keep showing us the error and yet you cannot imagine it is a false teaching.
No, your perversion is of the Lord's Supper with grape juice and cracker symbolism. All of Christendom believed in the "Real Presence" of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist until a man named Huldrych Zwingli came on the scene in the 16th century and himself parted from the original renegades of Christianity. Once again you follow the lead of one man with this evil doctrine that has no basis of fact in the Holy Scriptures or the teaching of Christianity for over 1500 years![/QUOTE]
Not all Christendom. Just your state run church. Even Jesus tells us to do this in remembrance of him (the Lamb who was slain to save his people from their sins). If Jesus has been speaking literally, he would have cut off some of his actual flesh and bled out some of his actual blood and said "drink and eat up because it gives you magic power." But, he didn't do that. He wasn't speaking literally. The context of the supper tells us this.
So, why did your church pervert what Christ said? Simple. It was a way they could enslave the ignorant masses within the Roman Empire. Tell the masses that they had to take communion or they would die in sins and go to hell. Then, if the masses ever thought about revolting, withhold communion and frighten them into thinking they will die in their sins. Then, to add more fear, tell them that if their infants weren't baptized their children would go to hell. Use this fear tactic to enslave them. Next, don't let the masses read the Bible and give the mass in a language that was dead so they could never know they were being lied to.
Thankfully, God gave the printing press, the Bible was read by people in their language and people realized Rome had been lying to them.
People were justified by faith. Believers were the priests and could have a personal relationship with God. God chose to save them and commune with them and all those teachings of Rome were just control tactics.
What a providential work of God to bring Martin Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and Simons to the times and break the unholy chains of Rome. God freed his children. What a blessing.