Bread of life discourse as metaphor

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You’ve been corrected on this guanophore. Why do you continue to sin willfully? Is it the “Roman Catholic” way of doing things? Sinning willfully? 🙂
WCH,
You’ve departed from discussion and debate— and entered the territory of scolding and innuendoes–which does not, in any way, help your position.

Peace,
Anna
 
I’m still awaiting your answer.
Well that’s amusing, since you haven’t answered anyone else’s requests for specific answers. . . .

1 Cor. 11:27 “Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink [this] cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.”

How can you be guilty of the Body and Blood if what you have received unworthily is only a symbolic representation?

1 Cor. 11:29 “For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.”

He is explicitly stating that when we eat and drink we should be discerning the Lord’s Body. How could we be expected to discern the Lord’s Body if it were not there?

What do you think Paul means? (not, of course, that you would claim for yourself the infallible authority that you deny Jesus gave to His Church, but I’m still curious to know what you think. . . .)
 
Because John 6 is not used in connection with the Eucharist, but only the synoptic Gospels.
Those who reject the faith of the Apostles in preference for the new innovations of the Reformation do not connect it. But those who receive the Teachings of the Apostles see the connection. When we read it, we read according to the One Faith that has been passed down to us through the Apostolic Succession. That is why we understand it differently.
 
How could we be expected to discern the Lord’s Body if it were not there?

What do you think Paul means? (not, of course, that you would claim for yourself the infallible authority that you deny Jesus gave to His Church, but I’m still curious to know what you think. . . .)
Don’t hold your breath. This one seems to be afraid to do to much thinking.😦
 
Oh, but I have…over, and over, and over, and over again. The problem is you don’t follow along well.
You are absolutely right. I cannot follow the reasoning behind why you would think an author would quote from a book that had not yet been written.

I can also not follow why you would think Justin Martyr would quote from the Gospel of John, when he was writing to a Pagan.

It would be like me trying to convince you of a religious truth by quoting from the Papal encyclicals. You have no respect for such a source, so why would I use it?
 
Well that’s amusing, since you haven’t answered anyone else’s requests for specific answers. . . .

1 Cor. 11:27 “Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink [this] cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.”

How can you be guilty of the Body and Blood if what you have received unworthily is only a symbolic representation?

1 Cor. 11:29 “For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.”

He is explicitly stating that when we eat and drink we should be discerning the Lord’s Body. How could we be expected to discern the Lord’s Body if it were not there?
Why isn’t Paul concerned with them not discerning both the body, and the blood?

Why is Paul’s concern just the body? In your opinion?
 
You are absolutely right. I cannot follow the reasoning behind why you would think an author would quote from a book that had not yet been written.
I’ve told you four or five times, guanophore. It’s not my fault you can’t remember.
 
I can also not follow why you would think Justin Martyr would quote from the Gospel of John, when he was writing to a Pagan.

It would be like me trying to convince you of a religious truth by quoting from the Papal encyclicals. You have no respect for such a source, so why would I use it?
But you forget, guanophore (as usual), that Justin ***did quote ***from the synoptic Gospels.

(Edited)
 
I’ve told you four or five times, guanophore. It’s not my fault you can’t remember.
You seem to have no experience in how to conduct a dialogue, debate, or even a discussion, WCH. Such dodging is not conducive to any of these. What brings you to CAF? It seems clear you are not here to get Catholic Answers, and you are not here to conduct any mature interaction with any other members. What needs are you getting met?
 
Why isn’t Paul concerned with them not discerning both the body, and the blood?

Why is Paul’s concern just the body? In your opinion?
1 Cor 11:27, 29 NAB *Therefore whoever eats the bread OR drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body AND blood of the Lord.

For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. That’s why so many of you are ill and infirm and a considerable number are dying.*

The death certificate reads: Cause of Death: Eating a symbol:D

The body and blood of the Lord are really, truly, substantially present in BOTH of the sacred species. We receive the resurrected, glorified body and blood, soul and divinity of the Lord when we receive either. He is alive, and His body and blood are not separated. Separation of blood from a body is a sure sign of death.

Jim Dandy
 
WCH,
You’ve departed from discussion and debate— and entered the territory of scolding and innuen does–which does not, in any way, help your position.

Peace,
Anna
Coming from you, that means absolutely nothing. 🙂
 
1 Cor 11:27, 29 NAB Therefore whoever eats the bread OR drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body AND blood of the Lord.

For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. That’s why so many of you are ill and infirm and a considerable number are dying.

The death certificate reads: Cause of Death: Eating a symbol:D

The body and blood of the Lord are really, truly, substantially present in BOTH of the sacred species. We receive the resurrected, glorified body and blood, soul and divinity of the Lord when we receive either. He is alive, and His body and blood are not separated. Separation of blood from a body is a sure sign of death.

Jim Dandy
Luke 22:18-21
19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 20 And likewise the cup after supper, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

I notice they never suggest that Jesus gave his “symbolic” body and blood on the cross!
 
1 Cor 11:27, 29 NAB Therefore whoever eats the bread OR drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body AND blood of the Lord.

For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. That’s why so many of you are ill and infirm and a considerable number are dying.

The death certificate reads: Cause of Death: Eating a symbol:D

The body and blood of the Lord are really, truly, substantially present in BOTH of the sacred species. We receive the resurrected, glorified body and blood, soul and divinity of the Lord when we receive either. He is alive, and His body and blood are not separated. Separation of blood from a body is a sure sign of death.

Jim Dandy
Thanks Jim, but you didn’t answer my question. I don’t why I bother. You folks just can’t follow along, but like politicians, you unconsciously go to your talking points. 😦
 
Luke 22:18-21
19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 20 And likewise the cup after supper, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

I notice they never suggest that Jesus gave his “symbolic” body and blood on the cross!
Right on!

“I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever;* and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.”*

David Currie emphasizes this bread/flesh teaching in his book, Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic.

Peace, Jim Dandy
 
Because John 6 is not used in connection with the Eucharist, but only the synoptic Gospels.
WCH,
It seems that you are playing one Scripture against another in a way that makes it difficult to pin down exactly what you believe.

Would you clarify your beliefs regarding the Lord’s Supper?

Do you believe the Lord’s Supper is purely symbolic?

Do you believe in the “Real Presence”?

Do you believe the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharistic Celebration?

Do you believe any Graces are imparted during the Lord’s Supper?

Peace,
Anna
 
WCH,
It seems that you are playing one Scripture against another in a way that makes it difficult to pin down exactly what you believe.

Would you clarify your beliefs regarding the Lord’s Supper?

Do you believe the Lord’s Supper is purely symbolic?

Do you believe in the “Real Presence”?

Do you believe the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharistic Celebration?

Do you believe any Graces are imparted during the Lord’s Supper?

Peace,
Anna
WCH has been pretty consistently Calvanistic. I think all of these elements of the Aposotlic faith were rejected by Calvin.
 
WCH,
It seems that you are playing one Scripture against another in a way that makes it difficult to pin down exactly what you believe.

Would you clarify your beliefs regarding the Lord’s Supper?

Do you believe the Lord’s Supper is purely symbolic?

Do you believe in the “Real Presence”?

Do you believe the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharistic Celebration?

Do you believe any Graces are imparted during the Lord’s Supper?

Peace,
Anna
WCH has been pretty consistently Calvanistic. I think all of these elements of the Aposotlic faith were rejected by Calvin.
I grew up Calvinist and ostensibly (albeit lackadaisically) “studied” his Institutes of the Christian Religion (although, to this day I assert that it would be better translated from the Latin as The Institution of the Christian Religion) at the first Calvinistic college I attended. I’m not sure it’s safe to say that all those elements of the Apostolic teaching on the Eucharist were rejected by Calvin. While he did reject the Real Presence in the host on earth, he retained a kind of… semi-anamnesis (for lack of a better term) claiming that, during the Lord’s Supper we are taken up into heaven and mystically united with Christ, even though He doesn’t come down to us, so he seemed to conceive of a Christ who was, well, half present. In fact, during his days in Geneva, Calvin vehemently protected the elements during his services with as much fervor as the most devout Catholic would protect Our Eucharistic Lord from sacrilege (despite, of course, the obvious fact that he had absolutely no way of actually consecrating them since, unlike Luther, he wasn’t even a priest). Therefore, I don’t believe he would be willing to say that the Supper is either fully symbolic, nor that Jesus was truly present, but rather somewhere closer to halfway in between. Furthermore, I suspect - though I haven’t researched it - that Calvin did, at the very least, believe that grace was imparted to us during reception of the Supper (again, since he had no authority to consecrate it, I have no idea how much grace could actually subsist there, since it’s not really Jesus’ Body and Blood, but… Calvin didn’t know that), for how could we be taken up into heaven unless the grace of God were operating there to make that happen?

Having said all that, WCH seems much more stringently anti-whatever-we-say to me, so he/she probably would answer with more assertively anti-Sacramental answers a la Zwingli (assuming WCH would ever actually answer such direct questions, which I’ve certainly never seem her/him do…).
 
I. . . .Having said all that, WCH seems much more stringently anti-whatever-we-say to me, so he/she probably would answer with more assertively anti-Sacramental answers a la Zwingli (assuming WCH would ever actually answer such direct questions, which I’ve certainly never seem her/him do…).
Tiberius1701,
I’ve tried and failed to get a straight answer from WCH regarding any specific beliefs. WCH does argue at every opportunity, but I’ve found no substance of beliefs revealed. I’m sorry to say after awhile, it just isn’t worth the effort. Argument for the sake of argument serves no good purpose.

Peace,
Anna
 
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