An Altar in a Protestant Church?

Another rant by Robin... 😤

While it's true that we #Protestant #Christians offer "sacrifices" in our #worship, they are sacrifices of praise, "the fruit of our lips," as the KJV bible puts it. And we give sacrificially - of our money and time and talents. We "lay them on the altar" in a figurative sense, not as the #Papists do in their #Mass, literally repeating the crucifixion of Christ on every occasion of their Mass. It is not "the Lord's Supper" in any biblical sense, but a new and literal sacrifice of Christ for the forgiveness of sins committed since the previous Mass.

All of the Protestant denominations confess that #Christ died once for all, and that His sinless life, atonement on the Cross, and resurrection was sufficient to atone for and wipe away all guilt for all sins committed by all of His elect. Once for all time.

So why would any Protestant church (and others not aligned with the Protestant #Reformation) refer to any part of their church's architecture as an "altar?" What Christ did is sufficient! There is nothing to be added to His perfect, completed work, other than the application of Christ's work to the hearts of His people by the Holy Spirit. There isn't any other sacrifice, nor any other way to atone for our sins, our failures, our faults, or sinful desires. Unless it is made completely clear on every occasion that the "altar" in a Protestant church is representative of legitimate Christian sacrifice (we are, after all, "living sacrifices" to God, qualified as such by the sacrifice of Christ).

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