I realize you once held certain fundamental beliefs...and like others before you the path is long which you follow...but they generally do come back. Though you are certainly free to not as well.
Yes, “the medicine of immortality” has a nice mysterious ring to it doesn’t it. Makes people feel really special I’m certain...for those that need that.
Well, for me Christ’s finished work is enough for me because it was enough for Him. And I will remember that and honor that work in communion.. I will never see this as some mysterious work man has determined is a part of His finished work... It is not required nor desired to take communion in the way the catholic church presents it.
AMEN! It is also enough for God our Father in heaven because He has accepted the sacrifice of His Son for all the sins of His flock and He will remember those sins no more.
Our perfect advocate has pleaded our case and won our redemption.
The Lord's Supper is a moment when the congregation draws closer to Christ by remembering His sacrifice.
It is not superstitious magick. Christ is in heaven, not on a gilded altar in Peoria, brought down to earth by some shaman "alter Christus."
Not "mysterious". I know the definition of the words. And there's nothing to be gained by "feeling." There was a desire to know the truth. Actually, it was more than desire - desperate need is better.
Here was a man, taught by the Apostle John, telling me something about the belief that he held. A man who would soon die for his faith. I thought his testimony worthy of further investigation.
In fact, finding out about Ignatius and Polycarp and many other opened a new world to me. I got to learn for myself what my sola teachers would not and could not teach me. The more I learned, the more I saw the misrepresentation of church history that I had believed all my life.
It was hard. I have never prayed as much as I did in those days.