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To: metmom

All the passages you quoted have to do with the eating of physical flesh and blood. In the Eucharist, Jesus’ flesh and blood are not physically present, but sacramentally present, precisely because eating physical living flesh and blood would be horrible.


88 posted on 11/30/2014 2:31:45 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan

The Passover, which the Jews celebrated, was also an act of remembrance.

They were not reliving the actual slaying of the firstborn by the death angel every year it was celebrated.

Nor did they eat the blood of the sacrifice. It was put on the door posts of the house so that when the angel of death saw the blood he would pass over them.

That is symbolic of God seeing the blood of Christ covering us and that makes it symbolic, foreshadowing salvation by faith in Christ.

But the blood was NOT to be consumed and never was in Scripture, a command of God given even before the Law was put into place.


91 posted on 11/30/2014 5:06:54 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Arthur McGowan
All the passages you quoted have to do with the eating of physical flesh and blood. In the Eucharist, Jesus’ flesh and blood are not physically present, but sacramentally present, precisely because eating physical living flesh and blood would be horrible.

Interesting

Sacrament:

a : a Christian rite (as baptism or the Eucharist) that is believed to have been ordained by Christ and that is held to be a means of divine grace or to be a sign or symbol of a spiritual reality

That's what we've been saying all along...It's a spiritual operation, symbolic of a physical one...

101 posted on 11/30/2014 9:20:23 AM PST by Iscool
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