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LESSON 3

REFUTING ROMAN CATHOLICISM

THE MASS

The "Mass" is a catholic perversion of the Lord's Supper in which a catholic
priest supposedly converts a wafer and a cup of alcoholic wine into the
literal body and blood of Jesus, which a catholic is supposed to eat and drink
every time a mass is held or risk going to hell.

Catholics don't believe 1 John 5:13 when it says "...ye may know that ye
have eternal life..." and are taught that claiming to know where you're going
when you die is "the sin of presumption." Catholics trained to watch out for
Baptists will shrug off 1 John 5:13 by saying something like "Why should I
take that literally when you don't take Jesus literally when He said the wine
is His blood?" Here's why...

At the Last Supper, when Jesus said in Matthew 26:28 "this is my blood,"
He called it "this fruit of the vine" in the very next verse. Obviously, one
has to be figurative and the other literal. (Notice "fruit of the vine" implies
fresh juice by the way, not fermented!)

Underline or highlight John 6:54a in your Bible:
"Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life..." The
context proves repeatedly that Jesus did NOT mean that literally. Circle the

verse numbers of verses 35, 57, 63, and 68.

John 6:35 "And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that
cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall
never thirst."

The "bread", "hunger" and "thirst" is plainly figurative, since the "hunger"

is satisfied not by eating Him, but by "coming to" Him, and the "thirst" is
satisfied not by drinking His blood, but by "believing on" Him.