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To: kosta50

Ok what were they doing acts 2:46 when they were meeting and daily breaking bread? Was this not taking as you say communion? In first Cor they say that they were gathered for the Lords supper with eating and drinking then there was a time of bread and wine. In your opinion when did they start having a formal meeting and had communion? Since the communion I see in the bible is a time of refection on what Christ has done using the bread and wine like the last supper as a celebration and a time of refection.


364 posted on 12/28/2008 1:44:18 AM PST by guitarplayer1953 (Psalm 83:1-8 is on the horizon.)
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To: guitarplayer1953
Ok what were they doing acts 2:46 when they were meeting and daily breaking bread? Was this not taking as you say communion?

No, they were doing a ceremony in memory of Christ. Communion is much more than breaking bread and sipping wine. There was no liturgy or established prayers or typikons for consecration. All this come later, much later.

In your opinion when did they start having a formal meeting and had communion?

We don't know. Somewhere between the Corinthians (c. 50 AD) and the end of the the century. Roman records show that in the early 2nd century they were separate, and they persisted as separate all the way up to the 4th century (because St. Augustine speaks disapprovingly of the agape meal as something separate from the communion).

Since the communion I see in the bible is a time of refection on what Christ has done using the bread and wine like the last supper as a celebration and a time of refection

That's not what the Church says communion is. The Church says the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ, literally speaking, by the Holy Spirit at the consecration in the divine service performed by the priest. Nothing like that was taking place when the Corinthians were written.  


439 posted on 12/28/2008 1:32:58 PM PST by kosta50
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