DFIRJames

Oh, this is hilarious. 😂 Have you actually read 1 Corinthians 10 in context? Paul is juxtaposing the Lord’s Supper with Israel’s sacrificial meals and food offered to idols. His entire argument concerns participation in worship and the spiritual significance of that participation. The food offered to idols didn’t literally become demons, did it? Of course not. In fact, Paul explicitly permits Christians to eat meat sold in the marketplace without investigating whether it had previously been sacrificed to idols (1 Corinthians 10:25–27). The issue is participation in an act of worship, not the physical transformation of the food. Likewise, Paul’s discussion of participation in Christ’s body and blood does not establish that the bread and wine literally become flesh and blood. But your claim that Protestants don’t worship Jesus is even more absurd. Romans 12:1 explicitly describes presenting our bodies as living sacrifices as an act of worship. Hebrews 13:15 tells us to continually offer God a sacrifice of praise. And 1 Peter 2:5 describes believers as a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. So Scripture explicitly identifies praise, spiritual sacrifices, and the offering of our very lives to God as worship. Yet here you are claiming Protestants don’t worship Christ because we don’t participate in the Roman Catholic Mass! Apparently, in your theology, praising Christ, praying to Christ, glorifying Christ, and offering ourselves as living sacrifices somehow don’t constitute worship unless a Catholic priest performs a ritual. Here’s the problem: You’ve confused the Roman Catholic definition of worship with the biblical definition of worship. And rather than actually exegeting 1 Corinthians 10, you’ve imposed an entire sacramental system upon a passage that doesn’t establish it. The irony is that the very Scriptures you’re appealing to undermine your argument. Perhaps you should spend a little less time declaring that Protestants don’t worship Jesus and a little more time reading what Scripture actually says worship is.