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To: papertyger

I could have ask the same of you...? I base my OPINIONS on what I’ve seen Christ do in the scripture. He didn’t say to the jugs of water in one instance, you are spiritual wine there-fore the party goes will have to believe that it became real wine even though it tastes like water. Jesus never lies like that! Jesus never said “do this in “communion with me”...he said do this in “remembrance OF me”. No reference in the Bible of a “communion cup”! Shall I go on with further Catholic “mangleisms”?!

Jesus was fully able to change substance or increase substance if he wished. I pointed out that the disciples did not record such a change of substance during the Passover supper though they did report the change of water into wine at the marriage party. (the feeding of the 4 thousand and the feeding of the 5000 were also recorded by the disciples proving Christ’s ability to effect expansion and increase of matter). The fact that they did not record such a change of substance when they took the bread and wine from Christ was telling to me. Now does God view taking of the cup and wine in an unworthy manner very seriously, again the Bible says that such a person drinks “damnation” to himself. It is a spiritual transaction that is just as real to God as it would if the bread and wine were in fact actually transmuted.

And as for being a minister...guess what, we all are. Though some are leaders of churches and “ministers” in that sense, all Christians are ministers and gifted in some manner to “minister” to each other and to the world. Our leaders are to equip us for ministry as it says in Ephesians 4. We are to be ready to witness for the faith and do charitable works. So yes I am a minister and since you believe in Jesus, so are you! We are merely arguing over points that we should not argue over in front of the unsaved! So see ya around the soul harvest fields...fellow minister!


236 posted on 05/28/2017 12:04:07 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6
I base my OPINIONS on what I’ve seen Christ do in the scripture.

Why bother discussing anything with you if you're going to prevaricate right out of the box.

The statement I quoted from you was a declarative sentence. No more. No less.

242 posted on 05/28/2017 6:04:22 PM PDT by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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