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To: Theo
The bread is “bread” (to use Paul’s term); -- incorrect, Paul himself says Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?

How can you be guilt of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord if you eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner and believe that it is just bread and wine?

It is clearly stated -- sin against the body of Christ if you eat the bread unworthily. It is a sin against the body of Christ if you eat the body of Christ unworthily.

140 posted on 11/02/2011 1:38:37 PM PDT by Cronos (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2787101/posts?page=58#58)
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To: Cronos

No, I am not “incorrect.”

Paul uses the term “bread” to describe what people eat during Communion: “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

Now, do you really believe that consuming literal flesh (which Jesus pronounced as being “of no value”) is more important than participating in the real (and Spiritual) body of Christ? You settle for of-no-value flesh, when you could taste and see that the Lord (who is Spirit) is good? You don’t want MORE than mere of-no-value flesh?

I do. I want to participate in the body of Christ, to be clothed in Christ, to have Christ dwell within me. No, not in bloody fleshly terms (yuck!), but in glorious and Spiritual reality.


144 posted on 11/02/2011 2:12:46 PM PDT by Theo (May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
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