"I have set the Lord always before me.
Because he is at my right hand,
I shall not be shaken.
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest secure,
because you will not abandon me to the grave,
nor will you let your Holy One see decay.
You have made known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand."" (Psalm 16:8-11)
"So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;...it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body." (1 Corinthians 15:42,44)
"I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable." (1 Corinthians 15:50)
Seems to say that when the mortal body is swallowed up and clothed by an immortal one, there is no flesh and blood left, they are transformed and the body is no longer a natural body. Bread and wine are corruptible and will at some point perish and rot, but God said Jesus' body would never see decay. And if it's Jesus' immortal body that we eat, and it is what is absorbed into our body and becomes part of us, how can we die? Jesus' body would decay and die with us.
Priesthood imperfect and now null and Jesus is the only priest:
"11 If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the law was given to the people), why was there still need for another priest to come—one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron?...16one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is declared:
"You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek."
"18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless" (Hebrews 7:11, 16-18)
"24 but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. 25Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them." (Hebrews 7:24-25)
"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus," (1 Timothy 2:5)
"26 Such a high priest meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens." (Hebrews 7:26)
How different is Jesus to human priests, who can nullify the sacrament:
THE COUNCIL OF TRENT
SESSION THE SEVENTH,
Celebrated on the third day of the month of March, MDXLVII....
ON THE SACRAMENTS IN GENERAL
...
CANON XI.-If any one saith, that, in ministers, when they effect, and confer the sacraments, there is not required the intention at least of doing what the Church does; let him be anathema (The Council of Trent - The Seventh Session (J. Waterworth Translation), page 55.)
"If there is a defect in any of these: namely, the due matter, the form with intention, or the sacerdotal order of the celebrant, it nullifies the sacrament. " (Pope Pius IV - Works, Vol. 1, p. 488).
"It is not possible for any one to be sure with the certainty of faith that he has received a true sacrament, as a sacrament cannot be celebrated without the intention of the minister, and no one can see the intention of another."
(Neque potest certus esse, certitudine fidei, se percipere verum sacramentum, cum sacramentum sine intentione ministri non conficiatur, et intentionem alterius nemo videre possit.—Cardinal Bellarmine - Bell. Disput. de Justif., lib. iii. c. 8, sec. 5, tom. iv. p. 488. Prag., 1721.)
"28 For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever." (Hebrews 7:28)
"13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself"
not offered by priests "unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!" (Hebrews 9:13-14)
"12 He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption." (Hebrews 9:12)
MEDIATOR DEI
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII
ON THE SACRED LITURGY
TO THE VENERABLE BRETHREN, THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES,
ARCHBISHOPS, BISHIOPS, AND OTHER ORDINARIES
IN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE
...
79. The august sacrifice of the altar is, as it were, the supreme instrument whereby the merits won by the divine Redeemer upon the cross are distributed to the faithful: "as often as this commemorative sacrifice is offered, there is wrought the work of our Redemption." (Mediator Dei, 79., verse 75) Wasn't it obtained on the cross?
"11 When Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say, not a part of this creation." (Hebrews 9:11)
"24 For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one;
that is some earthly temple, some earthly sanctuary, some earthly altar, he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence." (Hebrews 9:24)
"27 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself." (Hebrews 7:27)
"25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, how can he be offered again and again on some earthly altar? the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26 Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world...." (Hebrews 9:25-26)
"so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him." (Hebrews 9:28)
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