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To: annalex; Dr. Eckleburg; alamo boy; blue-duncan; George W. Bush; HarleyD
Recall the burning bush

Indeed. You cannot use the burning bush to justify your "real presence" argument any more than you can use the "descending like a dove" argument to claim that God became a dove.

The Lord did not become a bush.

Read the phrases carefully.

Exo 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him
in a flame of fire
out of the midst of a bush:
and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire,
and the bush was not consumed.

The angel of the LORD did not appear as a bush, but in a flame out of the midst of a bush.

The appearance was clearly not a physical appearance. Likewise, the Spirit descending like a dove was not a physical appearance of the Spirit in the physical form of a dove but the visible appearance of the Holy Spirit descending like a dove.

Diagram the sentences and your whole argument crumbles.

8,707 posted on 06/15/2006 2:13:26 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (((172 * 3.141592653589793238462) / 180) * 10 = 30.0196631)
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To: P-Marlowe; Dr. Eckleburg; alamo boy; blue-duncan; George W. Bush; HarleyD
You cannot use the burning bush to justify your "real presence" argument any more than you can use the "descending like a dove" argument to claim that God became a dove.

God did not "become a dove". I am explaining to you the difference between essence and accidents, and you refuse to comprehend it. The Real Presence is expressly defined in John 6, so we don't need to look anyplace else to explain it.

8,710 posted on 06/15/2006 2:28:05 PM PDT by annalex
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