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To: Palladin

“Eiher you believe it, or you don’t believe it. No one can MAKE you believe it. Belief in the Eucharistic Body and Blood of Jesus Christ is an article of Faith. Only God can give you that faith.”

I would believe it if I found it in the Scriptures. I know that Jesus refers to the elements and “his body”, but he also refers to himself as “the door” - yet the Scripture doesn’t want us to believe he’s made of wood.

Paul, when speaking to the Bereans, counseled them to go and search the Scriptures to see if what he said was true. He wasn’t expecting to Divine act to suddenly cause them to believe whatever he said.

You seem to treat faith as if it is some Kierkegaardian leap in the dark. Faith is a product of hearing and understanding the Scriptures.


38 posted on 04/22/2008 8:32:16 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus

And you seem to worship a book, rather than the living God whom the book was written about.


39 posted on 04/22/2008 8:33:42 PM PDT by Palladin (Pennsylvania: guns, religion, and liberty.)
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