Bread used for Communion

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Locoponydirtman

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oyster67 said:
Yes, Spirit and truth, not merely material and literal. This is the way sacraments work in Christianity. They represent and symbolize things. There is often a material component, but it symbolizes something deeper. We must not miss that.
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Spirit and truth is real a greater reality than mere materialism. symbolism is not real.
 
Cameron143

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Locoponydirtman said:
He did. To His disciples. His other followers left when He said it.
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They actually ate His literal flesh and drank His literal blood while He was on earth? If so, why use bread and wine at the last supper?

And what is the benefit of eating actual flesh and drinking actual blood?
 
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oyster67 said:
Is that question a yes/no or a matter of degree? I surrender all. That is a must.
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Maybe you do and maybe you don't. If I see a picture of you without a yoke around your neck and without a cross draped across your back I'll have my suspicions.
 
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Locoponydirtman said:
Spirit and truth is real a greater reality than mere materialism. symbolism is not real.
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A symbol is representative of a reality, a teaching tool.

In addition, I thought there was a rule against consuming blood.
 
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Cameron143 said:
Maybe you do and maybe you don't. If I see a picture of you without a yoke around your neck and without a cross draped across your back I'll have my suspicions.
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I see what you are doing there. You are visualizing a literal yoke and cross. (y)
 
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oyster67 said:
I see what you are doing there. You are visualizing a literal yoke and cross. (y)
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Of course it's symbolic. I don't want to offend, but sometimes what people take literally surprises me.
 
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Cameron143 said:
They actually ate His literal flesh and drank His literal blood while He was on earth? If so, why use bread and wine at the last supper?

And what is the benefit of eating actual flesh and drinking actual blood?
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You call Jesus a liar, i will not.
 
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Dino246 said:
Does using leavened bread being for communion constitute 'syncretism'?

No.
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It does if one who rejects that and only accepts unleaven bread pretends its ok and has communion with them.
 
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Locoponydirtman

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oyster67 said:
I see what you are doing there. You are visualizing a literal yoke and cross. (y)
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Except Jesus when He said that did not give them a yoke or a cross.
Before he gave them bread and wine He said, you must eat His body and drink His blood. Them when He gave them bread and wine He said this is My body and blood.
If he had given them a yoke or and a cross even a small one for the pockets then there would be similarity.
 
oyster67

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Locoponydirtman said:
If he had given them a yoke or and a cross even a small one for the pockets then there would be similarity.
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That is the point. He did not pull one of His fingers off and hand it to them. IT WAS BREAD. HE SAID IT WAS FOR REMEMBRANCE.
 
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