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I heard how Communion is for "the healing of soul and body" yet as I mentioned before, a bishop died of Corona, so isn't there a contradiction?
Does Communion prevent people from getting the Coronavirus?
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Would you take Communion in a burning building, inside of an active volcano, on a radioactive nuclear test site, or under the ocean with no suit or air tank?
God expects people to exercise at least a modicum of common sense, I think.
God expects people to exercise at least a modicum of common sense, I think.
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Holy Communion IS for the healing of soul and body.
But by your logic, we would have to live forever without dying if that prevented any possibility of ever having any sickness.
Until the end of this age, we will all die at some point of some cause. Holy Communion does not prevent this.
It is important to remember that no one would get sick BECAUSE of Holy Communion. (Except if you consider the case of those who fail to regard it, for which reason St. Paul explicitly said some got sick and some died - but that is for a very different cause.)
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So how does it heal the body if one still has the chance of dying? Maybe the whole debate of “not going to Communion because of Corona” is already over since you might not die because of Eucharist but of something else around anyway.
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How is it that there are people who are anointed with oil are not healed physically? Remember the verse about the prayer and anointing those who are sick - and that it will heal our inflictions and forgive us of our sins? It’s the same concept. You are right that the way people get COVID-19 or any other illness is not due to communion; it is due to other ways of becoming infected - such as someone coughing, etc.
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What is unto each person’s salvation? Only God knows that.
God’s love is unto salvation. It’s not a distorted love as I currently understand love to be.
God’s love is unto salvation. It’s not a distorted love as I currently understand love to be.
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the healing of soul and body, and how that works, will be known in the age to come. it can mean a temporary healing in this age to be sure, but it's for the eschaton.
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I feel like we could make this into a Dr. Seuss rhyme.
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Holy Communion will never cause someone to fall ill or cause them to contract a disease. I still have been taking Holy Communion, as I did during Holy Week.
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I think the question should be, how did that bishop get covid-19?
Were they visiting sick people in their diocese? Did people who carried it stay home or attend Liturgy? Did they take public transportation that wasn't sanitized? There's an infinite number of possibilities, but I don't see the Eucharist being the cause for it.
Were they visiting sick people in their diocese? Did people who carried it stay home or attend Liturgy? Did they take public transportation that wasn't sanitized? There's an infinite number of possibilities, but I don't see the Eucharist being the cause for it.
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Such as I. I have had been anointed with Holy Oil and prayed over about my Cerebral Palsy yet never gotten healed from it. I have taken the Eucharist for 27 years and even though physical healing of my Cerebral Palsy but I have been healed in other ways
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