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Recent content by onwave

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    Whats this place? Restoration?

    OK, let's let the Bible speak for itself... Jesus said, "This is my Body" Now, does your church teach that the bread and wine of communion are the body and blood of Christ or merely bread and wine as symbols?
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    When a male and female have physical communion, part of the male becomes part of the female. This is a type. Christ and His Church are one and the Eucharist is a time and place where Christ communes with His Bride both physically and spiritually.
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    The Church is the Body of Christ. She will be resurrected. She is His Bride and she is one with Christ. If you cannot honor the physical Bride of Christ, you cannot possibly honor Christ, for they are one. The elements are shared among the members of the Bride. If these elements are the...
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    >The Eucharist doesn't become the Body of Christ because we partake of it, but rather it is we who are what we eat. We are confirmed in being Christ's body by partaking of His Body.< We are the Body of Christ. The bread and wine become the Body and Blood when we, through the priest, accept...
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    For those who reject the bread and wine being the body and blood of Christ, do you also reject the Church is the Body of Christ? The Church is a real physical entity. You cannot say the Church is merely spiritual since she will be resurrected phsycally. Now, if you can believe the Church is...
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    "We believe teach and confess that true body and blood of Christ are received not only spiritually through faith but also orally with the bread and the wine, though not in a Capernatitic fashion but rather in a supernatural, heavenly way because of the sacramental union of the elements. . ."...
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    The Plan of God

    who are we kings over? Angels and the realms/worlds we're given authority to rule over or create.
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    The Lutheran view of consubstantiation, which holds that Christ is present ALONG WITH the unchanged reality of the bread and wine, is not the same as confessing that the bread and wine ARE the body and blood. The body and blood are not "ALONG WITH" anything as if the bread and wine are...
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    Let's simplify it: A. The physical Church is Christ's Body. B. The physical Church shares in one bread and wine. C. The bread and wine become part of the Church, Christ's Body. Whether this happens immediately before or during eating does not matter. I believe it happens when the...
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    Yes, it's a service to REMEMBER the Body and Blood of Christ given at the Cross...but that's not all. Don't forget that the Church is the Body of Christ. If you don't REMEMBER that fact, you're not eating and drinking worthily. Those who hold to the idea that it's just a memorial service to...
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    When does food become part of you? when you hold it in your hand? when you hold it in your mouth? when you hold it in your stomach? when it's fully digested? The bread and wine was part of Christ because He said it was part of Him - wherever it was. What was Christ's body and blood...
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    What's most important is to recognize that God's Church is the Body of Christ. This is not symbolic speaking, but is a great mystery as St. Paul said. When the Body of Christ partakes of bread and wine, that bread and wine becomes part of Christ's Body, His Church. Who can deny this...
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    Another thing to realize is that the physical flesh and blood of Christ was just as much composed of solid food and liquid drink as any human's. Christ serves His bread and wine at every Eucharist. So, if you can believe the Word of God became flesh (His body was composed of physical food and...
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    Communion: Body and Blood or rememberance?

    There is one Body and when bread is received by that Body that bread becomes part of the Body. It's a physical reality, not just spiritual or symbolic. Whether the bread is the Body of Christ when it's still on the altar or just as soon as it enters the mouths of each person who partakes...
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    Conversions to Orthodoxy

    I'm not a convert (yet) but have been studying Orthodoxy for a year or so. The biggest reason that I would convert is because, even before I learned of Orthodoxy, I had come to some conclusions about Christian doctrines, mostly basic practice such as Baptism, the Eucharist, and the mysticism of...
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