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Category: Sacrifice

  • Thanksgiving Verses – Part 1

    In the New Testament, our peace offering is Christ. We no longer offer burnt offerings, but instead we remember the offering of Christ in the Eucharist, which means “Thanksgiving,” which we usually call the “Lord’s Supper” or “Communion” in the Reformed churches. In the Old Testament, however, there was an option to offering a peace…

  • Offered Often or Once?

    We’re sometimes told that it an incorrect “either/or” mentality that causes us to reject the sacrifices of the mass on the basis that Christ was offered only once and not often. Yet Scripture itself has that mentality. Hebrews 9:24-2824 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures…

  • Patrick Madrid and Hugh Barbour vs. ECFs

    This video (audio only for now) discusses the problems that Patrick Madrid and Hugh Barbour (whom Mr. Madrid was reproducing) encounter when they try to make the Early Church Fathers (ECFs) Roman Catholics, rather than just letting them speak for themselves. The topic is the sacrifice of the Eucharist and the ECFs in question are…

  • Comparing the Mass to Animal Sacrifices

    Reginald, who had been providing some interaction on 2 Thessalonians 2:15 appears to have lost interest in that discussion because he didn’t like this comment I made in passing in another (completely unrelated) discussion: As to (1), the application to transubstantiation is too easy. So, I’ll leave it at that. Reginald doesn’t really explain why…

  • More Nepalese darkness and a Disappointing Response

    I was saddened to read this report of Nepalese darkness in the form of animal sacrifices to non-existent gods. Here’s the link (link). Almost equally upsetting was the response I read at the Catholic blog to which this next link points (link). It’s not the right thing to do, it’s not a good thing to…