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Doesn't everybody remember the Lord's suffering and death when they receive communion? It's hard to think of any denomination (salvation army maybe excepted) that doesn't teach that Christ lived and died to save his people from their sins, right?
The holy scripture says "you are save by grace ..." I don't know of any passage in the holy scriptures that says "you are saved by making a decision ..."
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and 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 this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured...
The civil laws of the land do not account a child under seven as legally responsible because before that age children are regarded as not knowing right from wrong.
I am cooking the chicken stroganoff that I mentioned before at this moment. The vegetables are cooking in the microwave oven as I type. When they are half way cooked I shall, God willing, add the chicken and some of the small vegetables (peas and corn) and some of the herbs and a few extra...
Nevertheless Jesus was angry and did not sin.
And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand. And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand...
Why do you ask if ingestion is the key? Is it not sufficient to take what Jesus said at face value and proceed from there? "I am the bread of life. ... This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die."
2Tim. 3:14-15 tells the reader that Timothy was trained in the scriptures from infancy onwards. Surely that is a direct answer to the question posted by Snerfle , right? Babies are instructed in the scriptures.
Everything in the old testament was pointing to Christ. Jonah's experience with the "big fish" is not the only reference to Christ's resurrection. Consider Psalm 16
For David speaks concerning him [Christ], I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not...
Didn't Jesus explain the sign of Jonah this way "This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of Jonah. For as Jonah became a sign to the men of Nin'eveh, so will the Son of man be to this generation. The queen of the South will arise...