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Don't believe in any merits. Believe grace is the uncreated energy of God, flowing from the essence of God. Believe we can acquire grace for sanctification from God, according to God's will.
No. The mysteries are great gifts of God to us, leading unto Eternal Life... just like He says
What is evasive about confessing to believe what Christ says and to obey Him?
When Jesus said in John 6 that they must eat his flesh and drink his blood to have life IN them. Do you assume to take him literally there?If not, why not? Should they have tore him to pieces and eaten his flesh and drank his literal blood?
My Lord and your lord are not the same person. I'll do what my Lord says.
Shut up about the mysteries... you mean sort of like what I have done in post #223?
The flesh and blood he commands us to eat is that which is that which is exulted at the right hand of the Father. He is the Life giving spirit (1 Corinthians 15:44-46), and we are to partake of Him. So HIS resurrected and glorified spiritual body "is food indeed" and His blood "is drink indeed" (John 6:55). It is His "spiritual" body and blood, that "quickeneth." When His resurrected body ascended into heaven, gone to be with the Father, it trumps time, so that when He offered it to His disciples at the last supper it really is His body and blood, even then. The created time table does not restrict the power of Christ's glorified humanity.
These prohibitions against eating blood of animals have nothing to do with consuming the exulted spiritual (1 Corinthians 15:44-46) flesh and blood of God the Word incarnate, Who commands me to do exactly this until He returns (Matthew 26:26), for "My flesh is meat indeed" and "My blood is drink indeed" (John 6:55). So, He is really in the bread and wine of the Communion of the Orthodox Church (1 Corinthians 10:16). It is our Eternal King Himself Who is invisibly (for most) present with us (Matthew 18:20) and Who gives of Himself (in the form of bread and wine) for our consumption when we gather for this purpose. This is my immortal King and God, Who does such things for us. You go ahead and follow a different one if you must, but you really shouldn't.
I haven't ignored any texts. I'm fully aware of all of them prior to your pasting them. What I'm not doing is agreeing with this manner in which you're applying them (as in, according to the spiritually misguided thinking that's producing them).
You don't follow my Lord. My Lord isn't the same person as yours at this point. Nobody merits grace and earns salvation by what good works they do. Salvation is the free gift of God. But, does one prefer that gift, or sin and death? Salvation is God Himself (John 14:23). We can have God and freedom or we can have sin and enslavement to it - which brings death. The Choice is ours throughout our lifetimes. It's sad if some believe otherwise, considering the Scriptures they've been given.
My Lord is the Lord Jesus Christ the saviour of the world who died in the cross for my sin was buried and rise again the third day .
You are confused
Even Gods people can be in another “Her”
That could be true my Lord doesn’t divide himself as a piece of bread and fruit of the vine
My Lord does divide Himself as bread and fruit of the vine (Matthew 26:26). My Lord says that He is food (John 6:55).
This is the quote the demons always use to compel the spiritually unstable to cut themselves out of the Life of the Church so that they can prevent such from ever entering into the "profound mystery" of the Marriage between the Bridegroom and His Bride -- which is Communion (the Eucharistic Meal) (Ephesians 5:32). I talked on this point in another thread earlier, excerpted below:
Thank you, but I'm already thoroughly knowledgeable about this heresy you've embraced and all of the Scriptures that the demons who invented it provide to those whom they have convinced to ascribe to it.
The Christ said exactly what He said. He did not say "This bread represents my body and that which is in this cup represents my blood". He said "This is my body, and this is my blood". If you don't accept and obey what He says then you are denying Him and have chosen to follow after an antichrist, as described here: "there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies that even deny the Master who bought them" (2 Peter 2:2). And here: "Anyone who runs ahead without remaining in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in His teaching has both the Father and the Son." (2 John 1:9). And here: "... many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist." (I bolded this saying especially, because your heresy of denying the real presence of Christ in the flesh in the Eucahristic meal is very closely related to the spiritual affliction that produced this gnostic heresy of old).(2 John 1:7).
