Mostly that's what scripture does.
You and your stories, ignore the significance of God's covenants. These are special, much above the many stories that are in the Bible.
If you don't like that, I suggest you take it up with God.
My argument is with you, far from God. If you wish to speak for God, quote his words, not your "story summary".
It's curious how those most adamant we go to scripture haven't the faintest idea what to do with most of it.
I am always amazed at CF posts that resort to insults and slander as if it would convince any of the position they have. I find it a most desperate act and evidence against what they posit. Interesting, that these statements were the only ones posted on April first.
That's not wrong, but it's not everything there is to say on the subject.
"That's not wrong." What a glowing confirmation of the significance of Jesus death in communion. This agrees with a preponderance of clear scripture.
"Not everything," My point is not to tell of every aspect of communion, only the most important. Let me give you a hint from scripture. When scripture repeats the same thing a multiple of times and speaks at length on it, that is the important part.
Mostly scripture works through story.
Which makes a lot of sense. Most cultures except ours recognise that story is a primary - the primary - way of teaching things.
You ignore that and you miss 90% of what is going on.
Thanks for another compliment.
My thread is one of superlatives. Such as, it does not dwell on the 90% but the most important. There are clearly some things in scripture that are more important than other. You take a different position than I on what is most important though. Obviously other stories are still important.
Er, no.
the greatest part of what happened is the beginning of new creation. The making all things new. Forgiveness is useless without putting to rights.
Communion is particpation in all of that.
Er, yes. I love these academic exchanges, if only there was one with authority to say who was right.
I will go back to my argument on covenants. There are not that many in scripture. They are very clearly defined and quite simple, not requiring the ability to "eat meat" to understand them. Reason being, they are between God and man/the masses, not just the few enlightened that study years to learn what scripture "really means".
Look at one of the earliest covenants. The rainbow is the sign that reminds us of God's covenant that he will never again destroy the earth with water.
Every time we see a rainbow, we should remember two things: judgement and grace. God judged the world and destroyed almost all. God did not cut off man from his grace by allowing Noah to repopulate earth, and eventually the birth of our Savior. We could add all kinds of other aspects to the "story" of the flood, but the covenant is simple: God will not destroy the earth by water.
Now let's look at two of more covenants; the old covenant based forgiveness on the Law, the new covenant based forgiveness on Jesus death. The pharisees were meticulous in observing the old covenant laws. They were so meticulous that to ensure they were correctly followed, they added much "story" to God's word. The result were many other additional laws that were not part of God's covenant. Now these men were good intentioned and had good knowledge of scripture. Unfortunately they thought their knowledge better than what scripture actually said and added to it.
The old covenant, based on laws was accompanied with signs just like the rainbow is a covenant sign. The old covenant signs/acts/sacraments were mainly sacrifices. One of the sacrifices was Passover. It was not the only one. Note Jesus's sacrifice ended all sacrifices, not just the Passover one.
The new covenant is loosely called the gospel. It is based on forgiveness coming from Jesus dying for our sins; not our ability to follow old covenant laws. Faith in Jesus as their Savior then provides salvation. What needs to be acknowledged is that even people that followed the old covenant were only forgiven because of Jesus death.
So now what sign do we have of this new covenant? The sacrament of communion is what we do continually to remember and acknowledge the source of our salvation and the price paid for our forgiveness.
There are many scriptures that clearly state communion is a remembrance of Jesus' death. My favorite:
1 Corinthians 11:26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lords death until he comes.
Now back to the OP, communion is an argument that a sacrament in remembrance of Jesus' death is support for Good Friday being a most important day.
