[Mrs. Don-o]

I think your understanding of what is happening here is marred by a Hermetic of Suspicion, which automatically excludes things you can't fathom.

This particular error is not something rampant in the Ancient Churches, all of which have, for nearly 2 millennia, believed in the heavenly Altar, the heavenly Priest, the Lamb "slain before the foundation of the world," and thus realize we must worship in Eternity, in unity with the Angels; and we do.

Of course you can't fathom it. Nobody can, this side of Eternity. That's a given.

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[ealgeone]

I think your understanding of what is happening here is marred by a Hermetic of Suspicion, which automatically excludes things you can't fathom.

You mean this??

"[Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche] share a commitment to unmasking 'the lies and illusions of consciousness';

they are the architects of a distinctively modern style of interpretation that circumvents obvious or self-evident meanings in order to draw out less visible and less flattering truths ... Ricoeur's term has sustained an energetic after-life within religious studies, as well as in philosophy, intellectual history, and related field

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I do believe you've described yourself.

This particular error is not something rampant in the Ancient Churches, all of which have, for nearly 2 millennia, believed in the heavenly Altar, the heavenly Priest, the Lamb "slain before the foundation of the world," and thus realize we must worship in Eternity, in unity with the Angels; and we do.

With regards to the "error"...it wasn't in the NT church.

I will concede it is a later development as witnessed in Roman Catholicism, but not Christianity.