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To: Libertina

Other Christians do NOT believe that Holy Commnion is the REAL PRESCENCE of JESUS.....they just think that communion is a SYMBOL.......HUGE difference!!! The Catholic Church does NOT have to change it's dogma.


24 posted on 04/16/2005 10:29:27 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

That is a simplication. I am Presbyterian. We believe in the spiritual presence of Jesus, not the physical.

It is not merely a symbol. That is Baptist thinking.

However, we can scream all day about "this is my body" and "eat my flesh and drink my blood" and it will get us nowhere.

I will point out "do this in remembrance of me"...hardly a statement indicating a literal feast of Christ's skin, bone, joints etc. this is my body etc. are simply metaphors. It is like when you use something to stand for something else, you will tend to simply say "blank is blank," not "blank is the complete and full representation of blank," but that is what you mean.


92 posted on 04/16/2005 8:11:52 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: Ann Archy

Don't care what others think. We KNOW what it is. That's what is importnat. What we KNOW NOT what others think. It's our religion.


178 posted on 04/17/2005 2:28:08 PM PDT by cubreporter
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