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To: annalex

“So you understand now that the sub-point, as you call it, is the Eucharist and not the assembly of Christians in the Church?”

Yes, the sentence structure makes the Lord’s Supper a sub point to show the importance of treating our fellow believers in the Body correctly.

“Except it is not really a “sub-point”, — it goes on for the better part of the chapter.”

No it does not. It is a small paragraph as a Greek sentence sub-point in support of what came before - correction of mistreatment. It plays a supporting role here. That is Greek. It has a sentence and paragraph structure.

“Also, the words St. Paul uses: “discern the body of the Lord” which apparently can “condemn” one — does not match your “reflect”.”

Condemnation comes from sin. Sin in context is only the mistreatment of other believers. Paul urges us to “discern”, “judge”, etc. to see if we are in correct relationship to the Body of Christ - believers.

“Christ did not say “this bread reflects my body” did He?”

Your continued attempts all ignore the sentence and paragraph structure of the language, include eisogesis of an idea you seem to prefer - inserting it where it doesn’t fit - , and truncating the context to avoid the plain meaning of the entire unit of thought Paul presents.

No. Not God’s point in this passage.


4,004 posted on 12/30/2014 8:31:11 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

St. Paul speaks of the body of Christ in 1 Cor 11:23-30 in the same way Christ himself spoke of it: as His literal body, not the Christian assembly.


4,188 posted on 12/30/2014 7:11:45 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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