Is it unbiblical to drink Christ's blood?

Carla Broussard, next.

Hello and welcome to focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding, and defending

your Catholic faith.

I'm Cy Kelly, your host and among the things that it's hard to defend actually is the drinking of Christ's blood for obvious reasons it's hard to defend.

I mean you have to have there's so many layers of faith that go into accepting that what

you're doing at mass is eating the body and drinking the blood of Christ.

And then you have to accept that you should be eating the body and drinking the blood of Christ.

And you've got to, in addition, all of that, be clear that it's not just symbolic what we're talking

about this is we're not just talking about symbolism we're talking about real body and real blood of

Christ well here's a problem that many of our Protestant brothers and sisters raise.

Why are you drinking blood?

Jesus wouldn't want you to drink real blood because the Old Testament forbids the drinking of blood.

That's a very serious objection.

It's a biblical objection.

And as Carlo has, Carlo Broussard, who's our guest today, has made

plain many, many times when a Protestant makes a biblical objection to

Catholic faith the Catholic is required to respond to that because we do

believe the Bible is the word of God so So this is not a left field objection. This is an

objection. We have to be able to answer. So what do we make of the objection that

hey the Old Testament forbids the drinking of blood over here you Catholics are saying you're

drinking real blood not symbolic real blood how are you able to hold both of these

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