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  1. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    Scripture says neither... That is YOUR interpretation... It needs no interpretation... It is a Mystery, as is Christ within you... And "We are holding the Mystery of the Faith in a purified Conscience..." Not in your young mind... Think "Mystery" and you may get a little closer... Arsenios
  2. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    Thank you for keeping my fly out of your ointment! :) Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    We are all children... And you WILL grow... God will see to it... Your remark was childish, as you may agree... Or you may not... Christ said the Bread which He had Taken and Blessed and Broken IS His Body... Are YOU a Member of His Body? Have you been Taken by Christ? Have you been...
  4. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    To be present as a presence cannot avoid location - And in this case the location is "WITHIN" the "ELEMENTS" of bread and wine... Unavoidable, I say! :) The bread, AFTER being Taken and Blessed and Broken BY Christ, then IS His Body... Just as it is plainly written in the text... Arsenios
  5. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    At least you are a young traditionalist! How often do you do Communion Services? Arsenios
  6. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    You are a child... You will grow... God bless you little brother... Arsenios
  7. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    You are starting to sound like Bill Clinton! :) No it doesn't... Existence does not specify when or where... Slushing these together with "present" is wrong, Josiah... The change came prior: 22:19 - NAS – And when He had taken some bread and given thanks He broke it and gave it to...
  8. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    "Take... Eat... This is My Body... Broken for you..." Remember, Rich - He did this the night BEFORE His Body had been broken on the Cross... Christ Himself broke His Own Body for us... We only do what He commands us to do... Which He Himself did before He Suffered... An ontological...
  9. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    I must say that this exchange is a stitch! You are falling into the fallacy of the false alternative... The text is simple... Look... The Bread IS His Body - That is what the text says - Those are Jesus' words... He does not say the Bread symbolizes His Body if you remember Him... He does...
  10. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    Actually, it means that the bread becomes the Body, and the wine the Blood... And it becomes so through the invocation of God Who changes them, and in obedience to Christ's commandment: "Be ye doing this..." For having given thanks and blessed and broken the Bread He said: "Take... Eat...
  11. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    τουτο ποιειτε εις την εμην αναμνησιν "This be ye doing unto the remembering of Me." Were His disciples doing this? How long were they doing it? When did they stop? The imperative verb is in the present tense, with the implicit meaning of: "Keep on doing this..." Arsenios
  12. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    The Faith itself, the Faith of Christ, which He discipled to His Disciples, and sent them forth as Apostles, to disciple all the Nations, in the Faith of Christ... This Faith is itself a Mystery, which is not held by logic, but only by a conscience purified in repentance... 1Ti 3:9 Holding...
  13. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    Another MennoSotanist spit-fest aflaring??? Say it isn't so! :) Arsenios
  14. Arsenios

    Communion of the Body of Christ

    Josiah, if you keep thinking like this, you are running a great risk of becoming Orthodox... :) True even of Christ prior to His Ascension, for He said to Mary Magdalene: ""Touch Me not, for I have not yet ascended to My Father..." So that in this life, we are not physically perfected...
  15. Arsenios

    Did the ancient Pagan Religions get picked up as 'tradition'?

    It was a throw-away... A.
  16. Arsenios

    Did the ancient Pagan Religions get picked up as 'tradition'?

    The point was that antecedent beliefs were transformed by Christianity... Observing antecedents and attributing Christianity as their effect is error... The Shaman-practices of the Innuits, in Alaska, simply fell by the wayside... Their function had been fulfilled... The Life of the Ekklesia...
  17. Arsenios

    Did the ancient Pagan Religions get picked up as 'tradition'?

    Point conceded :( A.
  18. Arsenios

    Did the ancient Pagan Religions get picked up as 'tradition'?

    Nothing like revisionist history and Wikkipedian Christianity... If you ask Native Alaskan Christians about their "original belief system" they will tell you they have always been Christians, and that their Shamanic practices and beliefs prior to their being missionized by the Russian Monks...
  19. Arsenios

    ROMANS 3:28 JUSTIFIED BY FAITH

    Plus Rom 5:20 - Previously already cited... Oh well... Arsenios
  20. Arsenios

    ROMANS 3:28 JUSTIFIED BY FAITH

    The Word of God says that we DO... A.
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