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Nope, I believe God is too big to condescend to your flawed understanding of his ordinances.

How is a question. How also is an assumption. Thus the answer is that how doesn't happen. The assumption is wrong, therefore the conclusion of anyone making the assumption will be...wrong. I suggest this thread be moved to the synergists only forum.

The Holy Spirit doesn't change the gifts, whether you pray or not. You keep placing the emphasis on humans acting and the Spirit reacting. The Bible doesn't teach such synergism.

Bible translations that are vetted through committee and reviewed by multiple sources is a good thing.

Nope, because I read the Bible and see very clearly that God never says the bread becomes human flesh and the wine becomes human blood. In fact, every Jew would find such a thing appalling because it goes against God's law. Also, in Acts 15, the Jerusalem Council makes sure to tell people not to...

You conclusion is wrong. The answer to your topic is that there is zero elemental change in the bread and the wine. They remain bread and wine. Thus, anything you assert outside of that fact is fallacious on your part. Second, the Holy Spirit is in no way limited because He doesn't turn bread...

True, but many interpretations do not make God all those interpretations.

Because Christ died once, not in perpetuity.

Why would we need his flesh and his blood in a wafer and cup? The disciples didn't need it at the last Supper. Jesus didn't literally give them his flesh and his blood. Therefore, we don't need it either. However, just as in the Passover meal, Israel remembered God's act of salvation, so in the...

What whim? If God was only just and showed no grace, every human soul would perish in hell and God would be good to do so. What you think is unfair is that a just God is gracious only to some and not to all.

Doctrine is derived from God's word, not from church tradition.

If by working of the Holy Spirit to save a person's soul, I declare that the Bible does not teach any such thing. Thus, communion is not a means of grace. If by working of the Holy Spirit upon the elect child of God to honorably remember our King who died on our behalf, I fully endorse the work...

We are still discussing your original question, are we not?

I'm saying that God chooses to adopt us and then immerses us into Christ. We no longer live, but Christ lives within us. God does the work. We don't coerce God by our actions. God chooses to be gracious to whomever he wills, not because that person first partakes in the communion table. Many...

You have been shown your claim is illegitimate and is a use of very poor hermeneutics. If you intend to butcher the Bible do it elsewhere.

We do them because God tells us to do them. With communion we do this in remembrance as a memorial meal. With baptism we do this as a statement to the world that the person was already transformed by God's adoption. (Infant baptism is an unsupported introduction by Rome, not by scripture.) The...

I was reprimanded for saying your views are narrow _ _ _ _ _ _. Yet you show how narrow they are. I only ask this of you. Interpret every word that Jesus ever uttered with extreme literalness. It is the only way that you can maintain your position on communion and have it be a legitimate...

Here is what Jesus said. Matthew 26:26-30 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for...

My position is Bible based, not tradition based and not Zwingli based. You make assumptions that are false.

I assume you are neither Roman Catholic nor Lutheran if salvation by baptism is not taught. I have answered you questions about other denominations so I proved your assumption incorrect. Baptist Churches: 105 million Methodists: 80 million Reformed: 100 million Congregational: 5 million...