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Belt

The Supper of the Lord, by the inerrant testimony of the Lord and His apostles, consists both of that which is seen and that which is unseen, of that which is temporal and that which is eternal, of that which is of the creation and that which is of the Creator. It is something that by its very description and definition defies human logic and explanation.

very well written. Increasingly i feel as I wade through the RF grime that perhaps the Orthodox when saying the Western Church is too legalist, are correct. They leave a lot as "sacred mystery" -- which doesn't satisfy the modern mind who wants a scientific explanation, but it makes more sense as religion is in a different sphere than science.

What do you 4 think? Are we all too legalistic? In the first centuries, all of the controversies arose in the East, but those were over philosophical points (If I personally say so), but in the past 500 years they have been in the West over more "nitty-gritty" (let's not jump on which is the gritty and which is the nitty! ;-)

[Mad Dawg]

Wow, am I a lousy guy to ask this question of! After a decades long fast, I find Aquinas so congruent with my alleged manner of thinking ... I do think that there is a peril in scholastic thought: one can think that the explanations and distinctions are more important than they really are. I’ll be interested in what others say.