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To: ADSUM; knarf
I see that many still do not understand that Jesus and the Eucharist are the same and they do not have faith in the words of Jesus.

Jesus and the tokens of His Passion are not one and the same. To say that any object is invested with His personality is simply incorporating (pun) pantheism into the Gospel of Jesus. Your Jesus is another Christ--of the same kind--yet still another, and not the Christ of the Holy Bible.

Here is the sense, in English, reading between the lines of what Apostle Paul warned the Corinthian assembly in writing (2 Cor. 11:3,4)

I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. "I'm extremely apprehensive that, just as the serpent sweet-talked Eve, by some tricky artifice your minds become corrupted from the uncomplicated belief in the Messiah. For if somebody comes to you, and you allow him access to authoritatively proclaim from your pulpit another Christ of the same kind, one very similar to the Messiah, but still other, not the same as the one we (Paul and Sosthenes and Timothy) preached. Or if he proclaims another spirit of a different kind, not the one each of you received according to our teaching; or another gospel of a different kind than the gospel we proclaimed, you might be tempted to hear him out."

Quoting Albert Barnes, who quotes Paul's next verse 5:

"The most eminent of the apostles have not preached Christ, ministered the spirit, explained and enforced the doctrines of the Gospel in a more powerful and effectual manner than I have done." Therefore with such admonishment the Corinthians ought to pronounce such a gospel anatehema.

FRiend, not only is your Christ a pantheistic one, but your gospel is quite different than the one recorded in the Scriptures. It is one of strange doctrines and "miraculous" signs and wonders, of a spirit domineering your cult churches, but not present in New Testament assemblies. I reject this, and your religion can never, ever attract me away from the Christ of the Cross, The One described from generation to generation by His Word, which is always sufficient for bringing believers back to God and His Son from the religionists who cart the gullible, credulous, blinded worldlings off by the boatload.

I, a human, am not what I eat, and neither was/is The Son of Man the same as what He ate on the eve of His atonement.

582 posted on 04/14/2016 4:55:48 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1
I reject this, and your religion can never, ever attract me away from the Christ of the Cross,

OK bro. Thanks for posting. Now, by this, I am really going out on a limb, but could I assume it will be a cold day in hell, before you swim the Tiber? The temperature will have to decrease considerably before I do too. 😀

588 posted on 04/14/2016 6:18:57 PM PDT by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: imardmd1
God bless you for your simple illustration/connection

FR is my source for language and the thought processes that develop it

Thank you, imardmd1

590 posted on 04/14/2016 6:33:54 PM PDT by knarf
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