Christian/Muslim ThreadsIs Communion really the body of Christ?Snipe Wrote:
This is nothing more then Protestant Propaganda that you and others are spreading. This anti-Catholic charge is so silly that it shouldn't even merit an answer. Anyhow, can you prove what you said above? Could you define heresy please? and what is this heresy you speak of? Snipe Wrote: Where exactly in Acts 2? You cant just say Acts 2! What is 1 Cor 11 supposed to establish? In his first epistle to the Corinthians, St. Paul warns the Christians not to partake of the Eucharist unworthily: "Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself". If one, then, has to answer for the body and blood of the Lord when receiving Communion unworthily, how does this square with the Protestant interpretation of the bread and wine being nothing more then mere symbols? Snipe Wrote: Dear Lord things just keep getting weirder by each protestant I talk with. The "sun-disc" is supposed to be a halo a symbol of holiness etc..... Even IF it was something to do with the sun its totally biblical. Psalms 84:11 says "For the LORD God is a sun and shield". No, Catholics do not worship the sun. Along with our separated Protestant brethren, we repudiate solar worship as idolatry. Snipe Wrote: The Eucharist is prophesied in John 6, and that is what makes Christ's literal meaning of his words perfectly clear. Lets look at John 6 in context shall we? Jesus said: I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat? Jesus said to them, Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.[6] Why should one believe that Jesus was speaking literally? First, look at the parts I put in bold print. Jesus makes his speaking literally perfectly clear by equating the bread that he will give, his flesh, with the flesh that would be offered up on the cross on Calvary. Now, was that flesh literal or symbolic? It was literal! And since it was literal flesh that suffered on the cross, the bread that Jesus gives also is literally his flesh, because Christ equates the two. This observation alone proves the biblical teaching of the Real Presence. But thats not all. Those who listened to the Lord understood him literally as well, thats why they asked, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? And what does Jesus say then? Does he make it clear to the Jews that he was talking figuratively? No, just the reverse! He strongly reaffirms what he just said before: Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man.... Finally, to push all doubts aside, Christ says that his flesh is true food and his blood true drink--not just some symbolic expression for believing in him, therefore. Another noteworthy fact is that, in verse 49, Christ says that the bread he gives is superior to the manna Israel received in the desert. Peace |
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