Posted on 11/18/2013 3:07:47 PM PST by NYer
Ping!
yes!! it is ACTUAL blood and flesh you are eating!!
you can see it magically transform!
(add to the list of ignorant time-wasting religious conversations that will solve NOTHING but create arguments over nonsense that will never have a real answer- instead of feeding the poor or healing the sick)
I feel sad that they don't realize what they are missing- to receive the living God.
Yes, Next question!
I feel sad that they don’t realize what they are missing- to receive the living God.
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We Protestants have a different faith than you Catholics. One cannot simply decide to change his faith.
It is truly ridiculous that you think that. I feel sad that you don’t realize how ignorant that sounded.
When Jesus said “I am the vine...” does that mean he was green?
Those who are among the elect have already received Him once for all time. So, don't be sad...try checking the Book a little more closely. It is we who invite those who feel they must do it over and over to swim the Tiber the other direction...into the light of Jesus, alone. His sacrifice is sufficient to save eternally.
I wonder brand of wine they use, Jesus Brand Boxed Wine?, saving the hard stuff for the kids probably.
Yes.
I hope he wasn’t too thorny
No... Jesus was a lamb, and he was no bah bah bah blacksheep either, but the whitest of lambs...
pass the lambchops, Jesus is for supper
Id rather be laughed at and thought as ignorant, and a child of God.
go ahead and call me names, throw stones, spew hate, whatever you must do. I'll stand behind the living Christ.
You’re right! That really is the only reason why these threads get posted over and over again. Some would be well advised to consider what God thinks about the one who “sows discord among brethren”. (Proverbs 6:19)
BTTT
the mindless drones are already proving that it is impossible to have an intelligent conversation with protestants.
You don’t understand Protestants and what we believe then, because you couldn’t be farther from the truth.
You were the one calling names and spewing crap. Which I called ignorant.
Just an FYI - I think we agree on more than you realize:
Protestant Christians observe Communion because the Lord told us to. We are to obey His commands:
And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 1 Corinthians 11:24 (NIV)
In observing Communion we are remembering Christ and all that He has done for us in his life, death and resurrection:
And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 1 Corinthians 11:24 (NIV)
When observing Communion we take time to examine ourselves:
A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. 1 Corinthians 11:28 (NIV)
In observing Communion we are proclaiming His death until He comes. It is, then, a statement of faith:
For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. 1 Corinthians 11:26 (NIV)
When we observe Communion we show our participation in the body of Christ. His life becomes our life and we become members of each other:
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? Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf. 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 (NIV)
Three main Christian views regarding the bread and the wine during the practice of Communion:
The bread and the wine become the actual body and blood of Christ. The Catholic term for this is Transubstantiation.
The bread and the wine are unchanged elements, but Christ’s presence by faith is made spiritually real in and through them.
The bread and the wine are unchanged elements, used as symbols, representing Christ’s body and blood, in remembrance of his enduring sacrifice.
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