Posted on 07/09/2015 9:33:36 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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The scripture is pretty simple. It’s a symbol. It is a SIMPLE symbol that represents the foundational teaching upon which Christianity exists.
It shocks some Catholics when I mention that my wife and I sometimes take communion after a meal at home.
“As often as you do this, do it in remembrance of Me...”
Best reason? Christ said “in remembrance of me”, not “this bread and wine will turn into meat and blood”.
In before the catholics.
If it is a symbol then why John 6:66? Previously when Jesus spoke figuratively he would follow up with a clarification, but then here he doubles down and many of his disciples leave because the teaching was too hard.
“Gospel of John doesn’t mention the Eucharist.”
Except for almost the entire chapter 6 of John.
Because that’s all these threads really are ... just an anti-Catholic game.
The Jews took the Master literally, rejecting His words as abhorent because cannibalism and drinking of blood were stricly forbidden. Do you honestly believe Christ would contradict Himself? He was the author of the Old Testament.
The Old Covenant was full of symbols; read Hebrews. Jesus came to bring something better than a new set of symbols.
The eucharist was instituted the night of His trial and death.
The events in John 6 are several years before that.
Therefore, John 6 is not the eucharist ...
Absolutely everybody in attendance at the Council of Chalcedon believed in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. (Discussed here)
No, it was exactly one year before that. At the Passover, see Jn 6:4.
You only need one reason. It isn’t in the Bible. It’s a local church ordinance to remember Him until He comes again.
“The Blood of the Lord, indeed, is twofold. There is His corporeal Blood, by which we are redeemed from corruption; and His spiritual Blood, that with which we are anointed. That is to say, to drink the Blood of Jesus is to share in His immortality. The strength of the Word is the Spirit just as the blood is the strength of the body. Similarly, as wine is blended with water, so is the Spirit with man. The one, the Watered Wine, nourishes in faith, while the other, the Spirit, leads us on to immortality. The union of both, however, - of the drink and of the Word, - is called the Eucharist, a praiseworthy and excellent gift. Those who partake of it in faith are sanctified in body and in soul. By the will of the Father, the divine mixture, man, is mystically united to the Spirit and to the Word.” — St. Clement of Alexandria, before AD 202.
“the cup”
Well, now, in before the “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” cup shows up.
Most people treat everything in life including religion as a superstition; religion, EMP, politics, etc.
I am an ex catholic. 😇 I am sure I will have a nice forever. I hope you do too. 😇
I reiterate - John 6 is a long discussion of the Eucharist. Do you reject what I am saying? yes or no
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