To: Cronos
He is present at each EucharistONLY in the sense of "where two or three are gathered in My name..."
800 posted on
01/10/2013 4:36:32 AM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
that's your opinion, which disagrees with what Early Christians and indeed nearly all Christians believed in for 1600 years
To quote Luther Who, but the devil, has granted such license of wresting the words of the holy Scripture? Who ever read in the Scriptures, that my body is the same as the sign of my body? or, that is is the same as it signifies? What language in the world ever spoke so? It is only then the devil, that imposes upon us by these fanatical men.
802 posted on
01/10/2013 5:23:55 AM PST by
Cronos
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To: Elsie
that's your opinion, which disagrees with what Early Christians believed in -- as Ignatius of Antioch (disciple of Apotle John) wrote in AD 110 wrote about heretics who
abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in his goodness, raised up again" (Letter to the Smyrnaens).
Due to this belief in the TRUE presence of Christ in the Eucharist, Christians were falsely accused of being cannibals and Justin Martyr had to write a defence to the Emperor saying "Not as common bread or common drink do we receive these; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nourished, . . . is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus"
803 posted on
01/10/2013 5:27:49 AM PST by
Cronos
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