Posted on 04/23/2013 1:31:08 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
but he wasn’t baptized ... ?!?!
Communion is not just Catholics only, as our separated brethren (the Orthodox Churches) are invited to receive our Lord as well. The problem with any old Christian receiving the Eucharist is that if they do not believe the Host is Jesus Himself, then they are not in a proper state to receive Him. I’ll grant you that with pro-aborts like Pelosi and Kerry receiving Him, it seems like many in the Church hierarchy don’t care - unfortunately, it is likely true that the roads of Hell are paved with the skulls of bishops.
So now the Pope is the Holy Spirit? Can you get any more blasphemous?
1 Corinthians 11:24
And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Luke 22:19
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
No insult at all. Sorry if you took my response as an insult.
just answer the question.
Exactly. This is My Body.
remembrance......not literally flesh and blood
Not, “ This represents my body”
What part of Is don't you understand?
You mean like the RCC does with Peter as the rock?
Deut. 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
2 Sam. 22:2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; 3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
Psalm 18:31, "And who is a rock, except our God."
Isaiah 44:8, "Is there any God besides Me, or is there any other Rock? I know of none."
But the RCC says they know that its not God but Peter that is the rock. Sorry Catholics, but you are following a false religion.
If I say, "When you're drafted into the Army, you're in the army," that doesn't mean being drafted is the ONLY way into the Army.
If pax_et_bonum says.""When a person is baptised by water in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, he is incorporated into the body of Christ," he doesn't imply that's the ONLY way to be incorporated into the body of Christ.
Is that more better?
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Mat 6:18
I am under Command to receive Communion
This is not dependent on my State of Mind
Even the best of my thoughts have admixed severe error
It is the Word of Our God and Savior
I Must Submit to His Grace
This would seem to be independent of my particular location,
depth of Understanding,
or "Proper State"
BTW - the fading presence of Communion amongst Protestants
would also seem to be in error,
largely relegated to "Giving Thanks" when eating
I would greatly desire that the Body of Christ
be of United Voice on this Earth.
God shares His glory with no man. That goes for Peter as well as anyone else. Jesus Christ is the Rock, and Peter confessed Christ as the Messiah. Jesus Christ is the Solid Rock, and those who believe in Him (not some imaginary ecclesiastical church, not Peter, not the Pope, nor upon any other man or organization), are building on a sure foundation. “On CHRIST THE SOLID ROCK I STAND, ALL OTHER GROUND IS SINKING SAND.”
Isaiah 44:8, "Is there any God besides Me, or is there any other Rock? I know of none."
>>The new testament clearly establishes peter as the Rock.<<
Oh really?
Rom. 9:33, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he who believes in Him will not be disappointed."
1 Cor. 3:11, "For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ,"
1 Cor. 10:4, "and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock (petras) which followed them; and the rock (petra) was Christ."
And He didn't specify a denomination.
I answered your question. Now will you answer mine, please? Regarding John 11:26, where Jesus says, "And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" ..........do you believe Him? Or not?
The Sins of the Holy Spirit involve denying the truth as taught by the Holy Spirit.
You don't believe the Old Testament? What?
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