# 019 The Doctrine of "Transubstantiation"November 22, 2007
Article By: Tom Demeter Are You a Catholic, Protestant or a Christian? Dear Friend, We are told that at the "End of the World" Mat.24:3, in which we live now, we all will be "deceived" as the people were in Noah's day Mat.24:37; Rev. 12:9. Apostle Paul knew that the "Ekklesia," the church will be "deceived," and will "fall away" from him, and the truth as the churches in Asia 2Tim.1:15, knowing the "mystery of God" Eph.3:3. This is why Paul is telling us that the whole Bible is "written" to us, "upon whom the 'ends of the world' are come" ICor.10:11. To "come out" of our deceptions Rev.18:4, we must "Examine ourselves, (and see) whether we be in the faith (religion of Christ); and PROVE ourselves" or our doctrines we believe 2Cor.13:5. The "doctrine" of "Transubstantiation" and its understanding of it will show if you are a Catholic, Protestant (protesting catholic) or a true Christian. God's word tells us that we are ALL "deceived," so it is time to "examine" ourselves, or our "doctrines" to be Christ's, or we can't gain eternal life. We all know that Jesus said: "I AM the way, the TRUTH, and the LIFE (eternal) : and NO MAN comes to the Father, but by Me" Jn.14:6! You might claim and even prove to yourself, and may be to others that you are a Christian, like I did, UNTIL you examine yourself in the light of God's words. "God shall JUDGE the secrets (beliefs) of men ( and the angels) by Jesus Christ (using His saints ICor.6:2,3) according to Paul's gospel" Rom.2:16. This is why Paul said: "the things that I write to you are the Commandments of the Lord" ICor.14:37. ( I did not know Paul's gospel.) Christ's church fell away from the truth, and only one man was kept to "obey" God in each generation and of this man's followers, just as it was in the Old Testament. By the End of the World we are like the people in Noah's day, when only Noah followed God. Now only God's "1st Witness" Rev.11:3 is following Christ, being the "very elect" Mat.24:24, who can't be deceived. This tells us that if we are in one of our denominations of Christianity today, we need to follow God's 1st Witness, or we will be following one of the Anti-god's many religions, no matter of the doctrines they believe, or their spirit make you feel. "For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. ... and his ministers transformed as the ministers of righteousness" 2Cor.11:14. By the way, true Christians must become not only "righteous" but also "holy," and "perfect as our Father is in heaven" Mat.5:48. To make our “deception” clear to us, the resurrected Jesus, now our Christ WARNED us that He will do “a ‘work’ in our days, a ‘work’ which we shall in no wise believe, though A MAN (God’s 1st Witness) declare it unto us” Acts.13:41. God’s “1st Witness’ ” Rev.11:3 work is to “restore” Christ’s “gospel of faith” Mat.17:11, based on the “laws of faith” Rom.3:27, and "publish" it to every nation, not to convert them, but to “witness” to them, and after that the END will come Mat.24:14 of all of our sufferings. The Catholic's Understanding of "Transubstantiation"This doctrine originated when Jesus instituted the "Lord's Supper" as a new Christian Feast, in exchange to and from the "Feast of the Passover" of the Old Testament. As Jesus changed the "laws of flesh" Rom.7:25 of the Old Testament, to the "laws of faith" Rom.14:23 of the New Testament. Jesus also gave us New Feasts, and Holy Days for the New Testament. This is why Christ's followers CAN'T keep the "Sabbath," of the Old Testament, because the New Testament is a new religion, based on new Laws, and new Feasts, and a new calendar, and given to a new people, Greeks, to provoke Israel, to become jealous, that they may be saved later. Jesus gave the New Testament to the Greeks to preserve it in a new Greek language, not to the Jews. This is why a few theologians attest that Jesus used "leavened bread" for this new Feast, not the Jew's "un-leavened" bread, the matzos eaten on the day of the Passover. Jesus on this day "took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink you all of it; For this is my blood of the NEW TESTAMENT, which is shed for the many for the remission of sins" Mat.26:26-28. The Catholics believe that when the priest performs the mass, the Eucharist, through the doctrine of "Transubstantiation," the wafer transforms, turns into the "body of Christ," and the presence of Christ through his body is in us, giving Catholics unity with God and each other, and eternal life. The problem is that this
doctrine makes one to be a cannibal. This tells us that the
"christ" of the Catholics are not the Christ of the
NEW TESTAMENT. The function of Jesus'
"body" and "blood" is needed
to gain eternal life, to pay for the "sins"
for us braking God's LAWS. For "sin is
the transgression of God's law" IJn.3:4, and the "wages of sin is death"
Rom.6:23. The fact is that the Catholics do not keep God's
"laws of flesh" of the Old Testament, or the "laws of
faith" of the New Testament, for they "nailed the law to
the cross" Col.2:14, and by it their salvation
is the "wide and easy road" Mat.7:13, where Christ
does ALL the sacrificing, and you are freed
from it. Apostle Paul said that
our sacrifice
is also
needed, not only for
our sins to be paid, but for the
SINS of
the angels, good and evil that they many be saved.
The Catholic’s gospel does
not include the salvation of the angel’s, because it was not
“revealed” to them in this age, just
as salvation was not given to the Jews, unless they become Christians, as
individuals. This is why Paul said that "I FILL UP that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in MY FLESH for the body's sake, which is the church" Col.1:24. And Paul tells the Philippians, and to us that "unto YOU it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to SUFFER (sacrifice) for His sake" Phil.1:29. Since God "hidden" Himself and the truth from us, as a “mystery” Mat.13:35, the Catholics were destined to be "deceived" by the Anti-christ, by not knowing Christ's "Gospel of the Mystery," Given to Apostle Paul Eph.3:3, based on the "laws of the spirit" Rom.8:2. The Catholic’s deception is then not their fault! Catholics in the churches CAN’T come to the “knowledge of the truth” as a group in this age, or "dispensation" Eph.1:10 because our Father in heaven is not "calling" them as a body Jn.6:44. Many Catholics will come to Jesus individually, in this age, if they “come out” of the church as Christ demands Rev.18:4. The Protestant's Slant on "Transubstantiation"One great problem for
the Catholics is that they do not see the difference
between the "spirit of man" ICor.2:11, and
the "holy spirit" which is God's spirit, as
our spirit of man is, because they believe in the "Trinity"
doctrine. This prevents Catholics to see that God does not thinks as man Isa.55:8. This is why the Catholics have their living members in
"the Church Militant," fighting evil.
They have the living souls in purgatory in "the Church Suffering," and
the dead Catholics in heaven in the "the Church Triumphant." We find these errors corrected
in some of the Protestant churches. A "few" Protestant
denominations understand that Jesus said that Lazarus was
"dead," and in a state of "sleep" Jn.11:11, not in
purgatory or in heaven. They see that "no man has
ascended up to heaven" Jn.3:13. Some protestant churches
see that there is a difference between the "spirit of man" and
the "spirit of God."
They don’t realize that their Holy Spirit
is not God’s, but one of the angelic spirit of God’s seven
churches in Rev.2 & 3. This
is the cause why all Christians are "deceived" Rev.12:9, as the people
were in Noah’s day. Many Protestants churches believe the "Immortality of the Soul" doctrine, like the Catholics, which means that our "soul" don't dye, but exist in heaven. Only our body dies. They believe this because they don't realize the function of "good and evil" in God's process of salvation, because they do not understand God's "mystery gospel" given to Apostle Paul, and why God created DEATH. Protestants correctly see that "Transubstantiation" is not the way for Christ to be in us, but gained by receiving God's "holy spirit" in baptism, not by eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking His blood. Most protestants see
that the Lords’ Supper was given for our HEALING, which
is based on Jesus’ stripes Isa.53:5. The problem for them, like to
the Catholics is that they believe in the "Trinity doctrine"
also, and by it the "Holy
Spirit" becomes a
"person," preventing them to understand God's true salvation,
given to Apostle Paul. This is why they don't see that Christianity
is founded by Jesus on the principles of Mat.16:25,
where "whosoever will Save
his life shall 'lose' it: and whosoever will
LOSE his life for My sake shall 'find'
it!" Some Protestants, as the Catholics want to be in the
"church Triumphant," and prosperous, instead of willing to
"obey" Mat.16:25, to "lose" their lives in
the "conflict" between "good and evil." The majority
of Protestants want to SAVE their lives, and want to be
conquerors now, before they are "made perfect,”
as Jesus was to be our Messiah. They, like the Jews in 70 AD, misinterpret what God is saying to
us. The Protestants, as the Catholics do not “obey” God’s LAWS, and by it they are in confusion, mixing the Old and the New Testaments which can't be done. They can't see that the New Testament is a religion of “faith,” where "what so ever is not of faith is sin" Rom.14:23. They don’t see Apostle John’s instructions that here the “SPIRIT that quickeneth, the ‘flesh’ profits nothing” Jn.6:63. Since they are not obeying God’s laws, they have no conflict with the “lawless” governmental system of the Anti-god. They don’t see that God’s way and the world’s way, or Satan’s way are opposites. As a result, most of the Protestant denominations will join the Catholics, and will accept the Anti-christ as Christ, and by it forfeit, lose their resurrection at Christ's second coming. The Protestants, as the Catholics must “come out” of their churches, to be saved at the End of the World by our Creator. Is "Transubstantiation" Salvation?God by "hiding" the truth and Himself from us Mat.13:35, caused us to listen to the Anti-god, and his errors, - the Transubstantiation, Immortality of Soul, the Trinity and other doctrines. Jesus identified these as the "Doctrines of the Pharisees" Mat.16:6,12 which "SHUT UP the 'Kingdom of Heaven' against men" Mat.23:13, or eternal life. Transubstantiation is an error doctrine showing how to gain God's presence and eternal life in us. God's way to gain eternal life, salvation is by going through His "operation of God" Col.2:12, following the "narrow and difficult road," which in this age, or dispensation is only given to a very few Mat.7:13. We ALL, Jews and Gentiles must remember that "God's is LOVE" IJn.4:8, this is why He pre-ordained our salvation before creation 2Tim.1:9, for He "created" evil Isa.45:7, Satan Jn.8:44, our evil spirit of man Jer.17:9; ICor.2:11, and death Rom.6:23 as the result of sin IJn.3:4! God "alienated" us, humans and the good and the evil angels from Him Col.2:21, to be "reconciliated" to Him V.20, after our spiritual creation is finished. Our physical creation is finished, but our spiritual creation will just begin for the most of us in the "ages to come" Eph.2:7. God's salvation, not transubstantiation starts, #1 when our Father "calls" us Jn.6:44: Acts.10:41, and gives us the "earnest" of His "holy spirit" 2Cor.1:22 that we may have the capacity to "hear" His "call" Isa.55:8. #2 God gives us a choice to "accept" or "reject" salvation. #3 Then we need to "qualify" by becoming "disciples of Christ" and fulfill its "requirements" Lk.14:26,27,33. #4 We do this by "coming out" of this world, not to receive its "plagues" Rev.18:4. #5 We are also required to "enter into" God's Kingdom's Embassy Mat.7:10,33, that we may worship, our Creator, for we can't do it in the world, which force us to obey it. We "can't obey two masters" Mat.6:24, for God "is the truth" Jn.14:6, while the Anti-god has "no truth in him" Jn.8:44. #6 After we "came out" of this world and "entered into" God's Embassy, we need to be "baptized" Mat.3:6-8, to receive God's "holy spirit" V.11; Acts.2:1-4. #7 We do this by asking one of the qualified followers of God's 1st Witness, the way Paul baptized people by the "laying on of hands" Acts.19:6. #8 Then we need to be "growing in grace and knowledge of the Lord" 2Pet.3:18, knowing Jesus' "Gospel of Faith," where "whatsoever is not of faith is sin" Rom.14:23, to be in God's Philadelphia church Rev.3:7 that we may be protected V.10. #9 We must advance from here to Christ's "Gospel of the Mystery" given to Apostle Paul Eph.3:3 that we may be in the "resurrection" without dying ICor.15:52; IThes.4:17. As a Christian you must realize that "flesh and blood can't inherit eternal life" ICor.15:50, this is why Christianity is based on Mat.16:25, where you must be willing to LOSE your life to "find" not yet gain eternal life. You must obey one of God's three laws, be in one of His three religions and governments. You can't be in God's Kingdom and the Anti-god's! This will cause you to live a very different life as those who are not yet "called" by God, and are in the world. As an Ambassador of God 2cor.5:20, you can't be politically involved in this world. You must dedicate your life to God's Kingdom as a soldier 2Tim.2:4 to help others enter into God's Kingdom and safety, because this world is passing away, and soon will be "destroyed" as in the days of Noah Mat.24:37. I pray that you know that our Father has "called" you to start His salvation process in you, to be protected from the "plagues" of Satan in the "tribulations," and saved and the destruction and re-creation of the world.
May Christ bless, Protect and SAVE you
at the End of the World. |