. . . . .[You say, "NOT 'This do to partake of My Body.'"]
But St.Paul says, "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?"(1 Corinthians 10:16)
Yes, Lord; certainly, Lord.
. . . . .[You say: During His absence, how could we possibly know Him after the "flesh"?]
I think it's easy to get tripped up by that phrase "after the flesh", since -- as was explained --- St. Paul is not saying that Christians should abandon their sense of vision, hearing, etc. but rather that their material life has been sanctified in Christ. So St. Paul uses this phrase, not to refute Christ as "the Word made flesh," not to refute the Eucharist as the Body and Blood of Christ, but to refute OUR narrow materialist logic--- the limitations of OUR carnal minds.
. . . . . Again: [You say: During His absence, how could we possibly know Him after the "flesh"?]
You really think he left us with no way to partake in His Body and Blood, no way to have Communion with the true, whole, and living Christ??
Your faith leads you to really believe in the True Absence?
I'll be out for much of the rest of the day, so I say Bye, my dear smvoice,and may God bless you.
Obviously. He who believes with the heretics that the gifts of bread and blood do not become the Truly Present Christ in the Eucharist is a believer in the True Absence and a denier of the recorded words of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He, by accepting the Protestant theological fiction, has made the first step toward complete apostasy of faith.
Good term, I'll use it.