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The Blasphemy of the Catholic Mass
John MacArthur has been preaching an excellent series on the heresies of the Roman Catholic Church as seen through the lens of Scripture. He stated emphatically that the Catholic Mass is “an unbiblical system of repeated sacrifices, blaspheming Christ and perverting His work on the cross.” MacArthur continues: “Put simply, the Catholic Church won’t let Christ off the cross. In the mass, the substance of the bread and the wine are supposedly transformed into the actual body and blood of Jesus, rendering Him as a repeated, incomplete sacrifice for sins. He’s not Lord and Savior; He’s the eternal victim, perpetually bound to the altar by the power of the priest, visibly and ubiquitously symbolized in the Roman Catholic crucifix.”
Scripture does not waver on the finality of Christ’s sacrifice on our behalf. He came to make a one-time offering for sin, never to be repeated. It was a contrast to the Mosaic covenant, which required a system of near-constant sacrifices. But none of the Old Testament sacrifices could actually atone for sin. They could only serve as a reminder of God’s deliverance and foreshadow Christ’s final sacrifice which would conquer sin. Read the message here.
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