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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
Acts 20:28
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No, Spirit is symbolic of the Holy Spirit. It literally means breath (Pneumatos): God the Holy Spirit is a person who proceeds from God the Father like breath and who in turn inspires, as one does through breathing, the Prophets, Apostles and Evangelists who wrote the Bible and also insufflates us with His grace.
The water rather represents the washing away of sins by the Crucifixion of Christ our God, who when He expired on the cross, and the side of His sacred human body was callously pierced by a Roman soldier, blood and water poured out, which are symbolic of the sacred mysteries of Eucharist and Baptism, respectively.
These are the sacraments by which all prior sins including the sin inherited from Adam are washed away, and we die to our former self and are born again as we are received into the Church, and then receive the continued cleansing of our sins and communion with God the Father, His only-begotten Son and Incarnate Word Jesus whose Body the Church we are grafted onto as Partakers of the Divine Nature through the Lord’s Supper, the Holy Eucharist, the Great Thanksgiving where we consume the bloodless and rational sacrifice of bread and wine that become through the action of the Holy Spirit the precious Body and Blood of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ.
What I just stated by the way is a brief summary of the soteriological passages in 1 Corinthians, the Gospel of John and the Synoptic Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, and 1 and 2 Peter, and other New Testament texts, which you can verify by reading them, since I reckoned you would respond less favorably to Patristic comments even where they are uncontroversial among Protestants.
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