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To: Mrs. Don-o
I did not say anything about "forms of worship," whatever that means.

True; but all I replied with originally, in 2554, was Forms??; because I didn't know what it meant either.

Glad you explained in more detail.

Now I know a little more of WHAT you believe.

I still don't get WHY you believe it; other than the long time hearing of This is my body" as being LITERAL; not symbolic.

2,574 posted on 12/20/2014 3:56:33 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Well, it IS His real Body.

It is not an organism confined to a cardiovascular-pulmonary-nervous-musculo-skeletal system stuck at 98.6oF. and limited to limbs, sense organs, genitals, hair, ears and all the other outward physical features constituting Jesus' biological limits. What It is, is His REAL, Resurrected Body, without limits and not just a symbol.

After the Consecration, it retains the appearance of bread and wine, but it IS, in truth, Himself: the same Body that was a tiny zygote in the womb of His Virgin Mother; the same Body that died on the cross, was laid in the tomb, and rose on the Third Day; the same Body that is seated at the right hand of the Father in Glory. Unlike before the crucifixion, His body is now transformed and limitless.

When you consume the Eucharist, you are consuming His real flesh and blood: you receive Him in the fullest way imaginable, and beyond what the mind of man can imagine. I repeat: absolutely limitless.

He says "This is My Body."

I say "Amen."

That about sums it up.

2,581 posted on 12/20/2014 10:38:22 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("In humility correct those who are in opposition, so that they may know the truth." 2 Tim 2:25)
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