Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: johnw@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Importance of sacrifice Message-ID: Date: 29 Jul 90 19:11:27 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jdd@db.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) writes: >johnw@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) writes: >>How do you reconcile the >>once-for-all sacrifice of Calvary with the Mass repeated again and again? >Well, the Mass is not a new sacrifice. It's the one sacrifice of Christ >on Calvary. You see, nothing new is being sacrificed. ... The same body. >The same blood. The same sacrifice. I was going to write something else, but as I was realizing that that line of thought wouldn't get us anywhere, a thought came to me: Catholics who believe in transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the mass take one part of scripture literally ("This is my body, etc.") and don't take another part literally ("But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God."); Protestants tend to be the opposite. I wonder how inerrancy fits into all this. Just musing.