Vacaman wrote:
Nope, never once related it literally to flesh or blood. As far as Lot and his ills, I can not speak of why he offers his daughters, homophobic? Coward? He had issues, many characters in the Old Testament did, not so different than people of today. The Old Testament is a closed book in my eyes, I admit that I have not studied too much though I'm sure there are lessons to be learnt.
BTW, I guess I received a totally different image of why we remember the way our lord and savior died and the symbolic breaking of the bread was to remind us of the nourishment spiritually , not as protein!
Nope, never once related it literally to flesh or ... (
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That would be the cleaned up, antiseptic version. Apologetics.
"I Corinthians 11
27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks
without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself." Italics added.
I find it hypocritical and morally repulsive that some people have a Christian objection to baking a cake for a wedding of homosexual partners, but be totally comfortable with ritual human sacrifice and ritual human cannibalism?
A hymn I recall from childhood regarding baptism. ("For without the shedding of blood, there is no redemption from sin!")
Would you be free from the burden of sin?
There is power in the blood!
Power in the blood!
Come for a cleansing in Calvary's tide.
There is wonderful power in the blood.
There is power, power, wonder working power!
In the blood!
Of the lamb!
Are your garments spotless?
Are they white as snow?
Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?
And:
Rock of ages cleft for me.
Let me hide myself in thee.
Let the water and the blood,
From thy riven side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure.
Save from wrath.
And make me pure.