[Elsie]

In the three hundred years after Jesus’ crucifixion, Christian practices and beliefs regarding the Eucharist took definitive shape as central to Christian worship.

SOMEthing took shape all right!

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 Acts 15:22-29

 

 ²² Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers. ²³ With them they sent the following letter:

   The apostles and elders, your brothers,

   To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia:

   Greetings.

 ²⁴ We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. ²⁵ So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul— ²⁶ men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁷ Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. ²⁸ It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: ²⁹ You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.

   Farewell.

 

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It appears that some LATER church fathers decided to add a few more things.

 

 

[MHGinTN]

Ah, but the holy spirit in catholiciism is not God’s Holy Spirit because God is not double-minded like the hs of catholiciism.

[Mercat]

That’s fine. That’s the minimum. If that’s all you want, then okay. I want it all. I want to be a saint. I want complete and grace filled union with my Lord and Savior, with God. The sacraments of the Catholic Church help me do that. Going to Mass, as often as possible. Praying several times a day. Spending all this time on this thread looking stuff up. I love it. Thanks. You are a blessing to me.