The heart of man is desperately wicked. Who can know it? ... When CHRISTIANS gather for communion, they gather to remember and show why they are CHRISTIANS, not to eat and drink the man Jesus. Paul calls the symbols what they are bread and wine (well, the cup ... of wine). The pagans in that day gathered to eat the god they worshipped. In an act of their will they gathered to eat the food brought for sacrifice to the idol then ate it believing (by their will believing, not by The Spirit of Truth) they got their god in them vias their alimentary tract.
The pagans in that day gathered to eat the god they worshipped. In an act of their will they gathered to eat the food brought for sacrifice to the idol then ate it believing (by their will believing, not by The Spirit of Truth) they got their god in them vias their alimentary tract.
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I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make with the first part. The Lord is omnipresent, after all; he can be wherever he desires, and he has made several promises about where he specifically is.
Second: If I remember my history correctly, most of those pagan cults came into being a few centuries after Christ.
Third, to quote from an earlier post: “21. Hence we hereby utterly [reject and] condemn the Capernaitic eating of the body of Christ, as though [we taught that] His flesh were rent with the teeth, and digested like other food, which the Sacramentarians, against the testimony of their conscience, after all our frequent protests, wilfully force upon us, and in this way make our doctrine odious to their hearers; and on the other hand, we maintain and believe, according to the simple words of the testament of Christ, the true, yet supernatural eating of the body of Christ, as also the drinking of His blood, which human senses and reason do not comprehend, but as in all other articles of faith our reason is brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and this mystery is not apprehended otherwise than by faith alone, and revealed in the Word alone.”
So that argument about the alimentary tract really doesn’t apply to what I believe.