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To: Petrosius

Reading it in Greek, AND IN CONTEXT, no it does not.

Paul uses the example of Israel to make the same argument in the next verse:

18 Look at the nation Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?

Paul goes through extensive teaching in this section that believers should not participate in idolatry. The Lord’s Supper and Israel are his examples.

“Paul’s line of reasoning was proceeding as follows. Christians who eat the bread at the Lord’s Supper thereby express their solidarity with one another and with Christ. Likewise Jews who ate the meat of animals offered in the sacrifices of Judaism expressed their solidarity with one another and with God. Therefore Christians who eat the meat offered to pagan gods as part of pagan worship express their solidarity with pagans and with the pagan deities.”

(Tom Constable)


927 posted on 07/22/2017 7:18:44 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Reading it in Greek, AND IN CONTEXT, no it does not.

He speaking in the context of eating the meat offered in sacrifices:

Look at Israel according to the flesh; are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar? So what am I saying? That meat sacrificed to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything? No, I mean that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to become participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
Israel participates in the sacrifice of the altar by eating the meat of the sacrifice. Likewise, the pagans participate with demons by eating the meat offered in pagan sacrifices. So to participate in the Body and Blood of Christ we must eat of the sacrifice of our Lord. And how can we do that if we are not presented with the actual Body and Blood of Christ offered in sacrifice?
947 posted on 07/23/2017 1:27:54 PM PDT by Petrosius
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