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No, I am not a cannibal. Are you a symbolic cannibal? Again, If Jesus was speaking symbolically, you have a problem: Jesus is commanding us to eat his flesh and drink his blood symbolically. In other words, He is commanding you to act out symbolically that which you are saying is prohibited by...

Your posts are there for all to see and yes, I quoted you. Here again are your previous posts... You never answered either: If you are communing with and commemorating other believers, why go through the trouble of a ceremony involving bread and wine and not just bring other believers up...

I think so, yes. St. Paul summarized it similarly: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." (Romans 1:16)

Just a hunch, but maybe it keeps getting invoked because it summarizes and articulates perfectly why God became man.

Yes, you have indeed flip flopped in near real time in this thread. Here again are your posts... And then the flip... So you first say it represents believers, then, presumably because you realized the words of Scripture do not support such an assertion, you flipped. It's the same Jesus...

Yes, I believe it is a sincere offer. As opposed to what? An insincere or disingenuous one?

I agree it is simple: Just take Jesus at his word. That’s what Paul did. You demonstrated in near real-time what happens when you don’t. (You end up flip flopping all over the place.)

Isn't the Christian message that the lighthouse in your analogy is Jesus Christ? Thus the good news of Christianity is that God offers salvation to ALL through Jesus Christ. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but...

I do not mean to twist anyone's statements. I am sorry you think that. If the body and blood are symbolic, what about the eating? Do you symbolically eat something or do you actually physically eat something when you partake of communion?

Yes, you did. Here again are YOUR posts... Again, if you are communing with and commemorating other believers, why go through the trouble of a ceremony involving bread and wine and not just bring other believers up to the altar and commune and commemorate them live and in person? Hebrews...

@37818, I forgive you.

Yes, you did. Here are your posts... Again, if you are communing with and commemorating other believers, why go through the trouble of a ceremony involving bread and wine and not just bring other believers up to the altar and commune and commemorate them live and in person?

If Jesus was speaking symbolically, you still have a problem: Jesus is commanding us to eat his flesh and drink his blood symbolically. In other words, He is commanding you to act out symbolically (eating and drinking his symbolic body and blood) that which you are saying is prohibited by...

You are flip flopping all over the place. Now you say the bread and cup do symbolize the body and blood of Christ. Yet previously you said they symbolize other believers... I readily admit I do not understand your belief. So again, if you are communing with and commemorating other...

Of course it must be I who does not understand. Ok, explain this to me so I can understand it. How does the bread and wine symbolize believers? I thought the Last Supper was a commemoration of Christ's body and blood and his sacrifice??? If you are commemorating other believers, why do you...

Sorry, but it's not as you believe. "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?" Communion = κοινωνία = fellowship, association, community, communion, joint participation...

Do you think this command was given to everyone? If I walked into your church one Sunday, would they let me get up and offer the Eucharist? First, the hypostatic union is not a theory. It is the core dogma upon which the Christian religion is based. Secondly, I gave it to you previously...

"Do this" is a command for what He instituted to be repeated. We know this because it is described being done in the New Testament AFTER the actual Last Supper. Acts 2:46 "Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad...

If you eat his SYMBOLIC FLESH and drink his SYMBOLIC BLOOD your religion is SYMBOLIC cannibalism. Tell me how SYMBOLIC CANNIBALISM is permissible given your interpretation above.

I do agree that they worship God to the extent they understand him, despite how little or how erroneous that understanding is.