“The concept I am explaining here is beautifully (if not also primitively) described by St. Augustine in his 27th Tractate on the 6th Chapter of John.
Here: http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1701027.htm";
I went there and didn’t make it past the third line and found error IAW God’s Word.
“for it is concerning the body of the Lord which He said that He gave to be eaten for eternal life.”
Actually you can’t find one Scripture that says that it is to be eaten for eternal life. It is to be eaten in remembrance of the “Act that granted us Eternal Life”
1 Corinthians 11:24-26 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
24 And giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat: this is my body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me.
25 In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me.
26 For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come.
For when you do this you proclaim the Lord’s death which means you proclaim the New Covenant/Will/Testament. Death must take place for it to become effective not the eating of something.
Hebrews 9:16-18 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
16 For where there is a testament, the death of the testator must of necessity come in.
17 For a testament is of force, after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no strength, whilst the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon neither was the first indeed dedicated without blood.
Lesson learned,
We don’t eat and drink communion for eternal life, but instead Christ gave his body and blood for eternal life and we eat and drink communion to remember and proclaim His death/sacrifice and the salvation that came from that Act on the Cross.
Yes, the material is laced with dogmatic error. But the devout in that religion are not able to see it. Strong delusion anyone? That particular poster also affirmed that in their religion, God violates (in the Upper Room Passover meal) and causes the disciples to violate the God-given laws against eating human flesh and drink the blood of the creature. The explanation given was rank, also, as if God is double minded. In catholiciism, God With us violates His own laws to establish a new covenant! I was ... astonished.