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To: annalex

“Duh. You wonder why it is so hard to take Protestantism seriously.”

Arrogance and condescension are not desirable traits.

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“... they knew him in the breaking of the bread.”

They recognized him while he was breaking the bread (v31). For heaven’s sake, they recognized the man sitting in front of them. They didn’t fall down and worship the bread!

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“he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.”

Christians are also referred to as being part of the “body” of Christ...

“For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another”.

That doesn’t make us “God”. Nobody is suppose to worship us!!!

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“Thomas answered, and said to him: My Lord, and my God.”

How in the world do you think this passage advances your argument???

Thomas was addressing Jesus directly - not a loaf of bread.

My point remains. Nowhere in all of Scripture does anyone ever point to any inanimate object and call it “God”.


58 posted on 04/23/2008 10:24:25 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Catholics don’t worship loaves of bread either. They recognize Christ in the consecrated host, as St. Paul teaches, the words they utter are the same St. Thomas uttered recognizing Christ, and consecrated bread is what was left the Apostles at Emmaus after they asked Christ to stay with them.

I fully expect you to have some convoluted interpretation of your own of the scripture I quoted, but to be unaware of the Catholic explanation for it after 25 years of study is odd.


85 posted on 04/23/2008 1:03:41 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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