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To: Mad Dawg; Iscool
C.o.n.f.u.s.i.n.g.

Explain this to me MD:

"It is not inappropriate that the body of Christ at the same time be in heaven and upon all the altars on which the bread and the wine are consecrated. It is indeed inconsistent that the same body be at the same time in many places according to local presence: for it would be locally distant from itself and divided from itself. But any contradiction vanishes when the body is locally in one place only, and in another place according to the mode of substance; for then it is not distant or divided from itself. Now Christ's body is locally in heaven certainly, but it is not in the Eucharist locally, but according to the mode of substance. (A Manual of Dogmatic Theology {New York: Desclee Company, 1959}, vol. II,p 262. Catholic scholar Father A. Tanquerey provides this explanation of the Roman Catholic position.

Who says there's not simplicity in Christ?

1,950 posted on 09/08/2011 8:55:06 AM PDT by smvoice (The Cross was NOT God's Plan B.)
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To: smvoice

Wait. You mean it’s not perfectly clear?

I mean ->I<- understand it PERFECKLY. [nods VERY sincerely.]

(In the middle of administative monkey bidnis. I hope to get to this later,but no promises.)


1,954 posted on 09/08/2011 9:30:21 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (In my Father's trailer park are many double-wides. (apologies to Iscool))
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