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To: Charles Henrickson; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; BDParrish; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; ...
It is the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ under the bread and wine, instituted by Christ Himself for us Christians to eat and to drink.”

Isolationist exegesis, contrary to how the NT church manifestly understood the gospels (which does not teach the LS as being spiritual food, or teach transubstantiation, nor make it the focus of devotion, and when it does actually describe it then it is to show the Lord's death by manifesting the union that the body of Christ has, as the "one loaf," by sharing food in a communal meal with others who were purchased with His sinless shed blood, thus effectually remembering is via its effects.

See here and more, by God's grace:

The Lord's Supper: metaphorical commemoration or the consumption of the metaphysical "real" body and blood of the Lord Jesus?

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Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Catholic teaching on the Eucharist

2. Metaphorical versus literal language

3. Supper accounts and John 6: Conformity to Scripture, and consequences of the literalistic interpretation.

4. 1Cor. 10,11

5. The Lord's Supper in the record and descriptions of the New Testament church

6. Purely literal versus the contrived Catholic interpretation

7. The nature of the Catholic metaphysical explanation

8. The Lord's Supper is not a sacrifice for sins

9. Absence of the sacerdotal Eucharistic priesthood

10. Metaphorical view of Jn. 6 is not new.

11. Endocannibalism

12. Conclusion


3 posted on 04/01/2023 9:26:46 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212

‘Do this in remberance of Me’ JESUS.
Always comes to me .


4 posted on 04/01/2023 9:59:45 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Shown)
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To: daniel1212

This is one of my favorite sites because it summarizes the whole issue and resolves it with Scripture.

https://www.gotquestions.org/holy-communion.html


9 posted on 04/01/2023 12:24:20 PM PDT by Salvavida ( )
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