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John is writing theology just as the apostles wrote theology in the Didache.

Bringing up the Didache doesn't much help the cause of those whom push the Romish sacerdotal position. It is only by willful "reading meanings into" that one can see much other than the focus was on Christ as the reason for the gathering and sharing amongst themselves.

For sake of there being deacons present to later deliver the blessed & prayed over memorial supper shared amongst themselves, to those whom were not present, doesn't exactly give give them, or even HINT that it gives such ability and sole "powers of authority" to effect some form form physical transformation.

Paul's mentions of the "supper" can scarcely be seen to get anywhere near the idea of that which later developed more fully into "transubstantiation", much less that such should be dogma.

The snippet brought pertaining to Justin also falls far short of the later made claims concerning the how and the why of what was transpiring concerning the supper.

I'm sorry, but the closer we get to original "source" the less much of the later developed doctrine and dogma can be seen to have firm basis for. The less precise claims made by those in the East, cover the issue, and are much safer in the end, doctrinally.

Still, as it is written:


106 posted on 08/19/2012 9:04:56 PM PDT by BlueDragon (going to change my name to "Nobody" then run for elective office)
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I agree, plus I think the description of the early church’s manner of worship more closely resembles that of Evangelical churches that I have attended.


114 posted on 08/19/2012 10:38:03 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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