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Proved by the Bible by Joseph S.C. Bonadiman, Ph.D., P.E.
Christ established a Sacrament, the Eucharist, whereby he was actually present in the Holy Host and the Sacred Cup, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, that they would have no other option than to follow Christ and join His One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. The way this is done is straightforward and easy for anyone to understand. You show that when Christ said something “is” it actually “is”. Christ is God, and cannot err; therefore, if Christ would say that President Bush was Chinese, President Bush complexion and eyes would change, because God cannot err. One moment President Bush would be Caucasian, but after Christ said, “President Bush, you are Chinese,” the president would be Asian. The Bible guarantees us that this is true, for example. A leper asked Christ to cure him and “Jesus, stretching forth his hand touched him saying ‘I will, be thou made clean.’ And forthwith his leprosy was cleaned.” (Matthew 8:2ff). Whenever Jesus said something is, it becomes that way. When Jesus says that a person is alive, they become alive. When He commands the sea to be quiet, it becomes quiet. When the blind asked to be cured, they are no longer blind. Therefore, whenever Jesus says something, it actually becomes what he says. Anyone familiar with the Bible will recognize that these types of happenings as shown in Matthew, are found repeatedly throughout the Bible. Therefore, when He says that “This is my Body” (Matthew 26:26) and “This is my Blood” (Matthew 26:28), He means exactly that, that the bread actually became his body and the wine actually became his blood. Christ said, “This is my Body which is given for you. Do this for a commeration of me (Luke 22:19).” This is when He gave the authority to His Apostles, to do as he did, that is, consecrate the bread into His Body and the wine into His Blood. Previously Jesus had said that he was “… the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world… except you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood you should not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood shall have everlasting life… For my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drink indeed… He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abide in me and I in him (John 6:48ff).” Jesus leaves no room for doubt about what he means because as we see further down in John’s gospel, his disciples all left him because they were scandalized because the Davidic Code did not allow the drinking of blood. This further shows that they knew exactly what he was saying and that he was speaking of his actual body and his actual blood. Christ, when he saw his disciples’ leave did not say to them something to the effect of “you misunderstood me. I did not really mean my actual body and my actual blood, please come back.” [Remember, when Nicodemus misunderstood Jesus about Baptism (John 3:3-6). Jesus corrected him, then why didn’t he correct the disciples?] No, what he did was turned to his apostles and said, “Will you also go away?” This was a further way of saying that he meant exactly what he said. Some people would try to falsify Christ’s words and true meaning by quoting from John 6:64 that says, “It is the spirit that quickens: the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life,” and in so quoting this verse will indicate that he was only figuratively talking about his body and blood, however, in this verse Christ is referring to the faithful man being one who is in the spirit (with God) while the material man is the one that is in the flesh (with sin). This verse 64 does not refer to Christ’s flesh, this can be further seen as the proper explanation when one reads Romans 8:3- 13 inclusive, Galatians 5:16-24, and 1Peter 4:6. And further how reasonable is it to assume the one verse, John 6:64, can negate the preceding 12 versus of John 6:48-59? The Eucharist distinguishes Catholics from all other Christian denominations. When the priest acts by Christ’s authority and consecrates the bread and wine they truly become the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of our Lord. “Christ died once (Hebrews 7:27).” Christ does not die at the Eucharist he gives us “eternal life (John 6:54).” Only God could have devised the Eucharist, which enables us to be with him at the last supper - the un-bloody sacrifice - that will last until the end of time. The fact that the early Christians knew that they were actually receiving Jesus’ real body and blood is shown by first century roman historian Tacitus’ charges of cannibalism by the early Christians. Further, for 1500 years after Christ, all true Christians believed in the Eucharist. Not until the 1500’s did some Christians start to deny that fact. Therefore, if your denomination does not have the true Eucharist of Christ, then it is not Christ’s Church but some man made invention. Today these number over 30 thousand groups that claim to be followers of Christ. Even if you have questions concerning the items written in this paper, it should have presented enough information that would require an intellectually honest person to do more research to find out for themselves if they should follow Christ in his “One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.” Joseph S. C. Bonadiman, Ph.D., P.E. |
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