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    two Sabbaths that week..

    Interesting, and you believe this because of the passage in Matthew?
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    Was the blood moon experience a disappointment?

    Are you fluent in ancient Hebrew? visionary
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    Slain in the spirit

    What causes me to feel concern for those who claim a separate baptism of the spirit and various experiences that they associate with the spirit is that rather than being content with what they believe they've received they go out to evangelise others with the aim of getting them to have the same...
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    Communion - Symbolic or Real?

    Anybody can come and claim this or that about themselves and we will not know if their claims are true or not so we rely on the good conduct of visitors who are not Catholics to refrain from coming forward to receive communion.
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    Slain in the spirit

    Do experiences transcend the holy scriptures? Are experiences so intimate that no words, not even those of the holy scriptures, can convey their meaning? Are experiences more precious than the pearls one finds in the holy scriptures?
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    Communion - Symbolic or Real?

    No, 'is' remains in the apostolic traditions and transubstantiation is the scholastic term used to designate the unique change of the Eucharistic bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ. The change is unique insofar as it occurs in no other sacrament and it not common in nature...
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    Communion - Symbolic or Real?

    Catholics practise close communion by which is meant that only those who share the Catholic Faith and specifically the Catholic teaching on the holy Eucharist ought to partake. Saint Paul explains it thus: Therefore anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily is answerable...
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    boys v girls - Part 2

    394
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    Was the blood moon experience a disappointment?

    The trouble with going to a lexicon is that if you are not fluent in the language you'll probably get all sorts of incorrect ideas about what a word means in a specific context. But if you are fluent in ancient Hebrew then okay ... are you fluent in it?
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    two Sabbaths that week..

    You believe that Jonah was raised from the dead and lived however long after his resurrection?
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    boys v girls - Part 2

    396 ... :squidward:
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    Communion - Symbolic or Real?

    I do not know if this will be read or ignored but it is what the Catholic Church teaches in her Catechism - a reliable source of Catholic Teaching that certainly outranks sketchily remembered first communion classes. TRANSUBSTANTIATION is the scholastic term used to designate the unique change...
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    Communion - Symbolic or Real?

    If the only matter was what "is" means then this thread would be superfluous but you and I both know that to those who see only a metaphor in "this is my body" it is evident that "is" means "means" or "represents" rather than meaning "is". And while you object to the word 'transubstantiation'...
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    Slain in the spirit

    Is being slain in the spirit a doctrine/belief that you hold dear?
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    Communion - Symbolic or Real?

    Even more ignorant humbug. First communion classes usually are taught to children of about eight years of age who would almost certainly be unable to pronounce 'transubstantiation' never mind grasp the philosophical system behind it. Relying on such 'proofs' is sound evidence that your stated...
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    Communion - Symbolic or Real?

    More ignorant humbug. Middle ages Christian theologians are not pagans nor was their use of Aristotle's philosophical framework pagan. It is far more likely that Aristotle was a functional atheist than that he was a pagan and he lived not in the middle ages but in ancient antiquity in the fourth...
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    two Sabbaths that week..

    Because it is a simile that is why he said "just as Jonah ...". He uses the story of Jonah as a simile for his own death and resurrection.
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    Was the blood moon experience a disappointment?

    Yes, the NIV is more accurate in conveying what is said in the Hebrew text using the English language and less like English words strewn across the page in the same order as the Hebrew words but with little attention to their meaning in English. If the NIV offends you then there are many other...
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    Communion - Symbolic or Real?

    What ignorant humbug! While it is true that the word 'transubstantiation' is of middle ages origin and was applied in the philosophical framework that the scholastic scholars built upon Aristotle's distinction between substance and accidents it is not true that alchemy has anything in common...
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    Was the blood moon experience a disappointment?

    You appear to be relying on the KJV rather than on what the text says in its original language. Surely the NIV offers an accurate translation into English yet you've ignored it's wording. Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as...
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