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Being meaningful has nothing to do with the bread and wine having to become the actual physical body and blood of Jesus. Even in the upper room the bread and wine did not turn into the literal body and blood of Jesus. The context of the Last Supper conveys that Jesus disciples are to...

Doesn't "is" mean "is?" So, Christ isn't really present? You still don't explain why Christ would need to die repeatedly in communion? I don't think Christ was being literal. If he was, he wouldn't say "do this in remembrance of me." Instead he would have said "do this to experience my...

Yep. It is insulting. The issue has nothing to do with whether a Christian believes Jesus sacrificial atonement is effective and expressed in communion. We all do. The difference is that Lutherans and Catholics are being extremely literal with what Jesus said, while ignoring that at the last...

I would think the slaughter of Christians in India by extremist Hindu's and Muslim's might be something to not support. Will President Trump bring that up to the corrupt Hindu Party presently running India? It seems the OP may have their priorities mixed up.

for stating that homosexual behavior is a sin. https://ilc-online.org/2020/02/14/ilc-concerned-over-investigation-of-finnish-lutherans-urges-prayer/?fbclid=IwAR3pyUTi5QR2zWLTfRRPH60fZK6g4k6bo0zZRKsP7BEAI5LBfVSS5QzMuQg

The Bible shows us that any Christian can baptize a new believer. Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of...

Right. If I understand your last statement you seem to be saying that God makes his choice as he wills, he does not react to the choices of men. Is that an accurate interpretation?

I agree with your assessment. The trilogy was an interesting look at dystopia and the effects on a people with no moral compass. The movies were hollow shells with really poor acting and writing.

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Two observations. 1) Nancy Pelosi hurt her party with her actions on display behind the President. 2) President Trump showed he is a 10 miles wide/2 inches deep speaker. He essentially told us nothing about the State of the Union, but he did give out prizes like a game show host.

Galatians 4:1-7,28-31 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary...

Galatians 3:7-29 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” So then, those who are of faith are blessed...

I came across this article, via a Facebook post. It seems a Methodist Church is telling the congregants that in order to reach a younger population the older population needs to stop meeting in June and leave for at least 2 years while the church is reimaged for young people, starting in the...

God blessed us when he chose to redeem us. Whatever God chooses to do with his children is done for our best and for his glory. ~ Hebrews 12:7-11

I can read. You fail to interpret scripture by willfully not doing so. Our conversation is done until you actually interpret scripture rather than claiming you have no need to do so.

I won't push anymore. You have made it clear you refuse to interpret scripture and thus you avoid your contradictions. I will leave you to your conundrums.

With all do respect, I have not asked you to correct scripture. I asked you to interpret scripture. So far you have refused to interpret John 6:37. The mystery is why you refuse to interpret scripture, yet you are more than willing to tell us that Christians can fall away from a faith that God...

You are not explaining it, Josiah. I am looking for you to directly explain the passage with your own words. I can read the verse. I know what I believe it says. I want to know what you believe the verse says. What does it say? Explain it to us. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I...

What does it say? Explain it to us. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. ~ John 6:39

What does it say? And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. ~ John 6:39