Posted by AveMaria [AveMaria] on March 27, 1999 at 12:25:23 {mi5OiZyLgYTND1NJ9SEsMWf0hi4VK0MIQ}:
Isn't the Remnant, who eats the bread and drink the wine at the Memorial, violiating the Watchtower's doctrine on blood by drinking the blood of Jesus?
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats
this bread will live forever; and the
bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the
world." John 6:51
"Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh
of the Son of Man and *drink his blood,* you do
not
have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and
drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him
on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my
blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and
drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him."
John 6:54-56
"While they were eating, he took bread, said the
blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, and said,
'Take it, this is my body.' Then he took a cup, gave
thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from
it. He said, 'This is my blood of the covenant, which
will be shed for many.'" Mark 14:22-24
"For I recieved from the Lord what I also handed on
to you, that the
Lord Jesus, on the night he was
handed over, took bread, and, after he had given
thanks, broke it and said, 'This is my body that is for
you. Do this in remembrance of me.' In the same
also the cup, after supper,
saying, 'This cup is the
new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you
drink it, in remembrance of me.' ...Therefore, who-
ever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord
unworthily *will have to answer for
the body and
blood of the Lord.* A person should examine him-
self, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. **For
anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the
body, eats and drinks judgment on himself.**"
1 Corinthians 11:23-29