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Lester
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What does it mean to “receive Christ” according to John 1:12? Is it an allusion to the eucharist, or does it have something else in view?
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Daniel_Marsh
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we protestants take it to mean, entering a personal relationship with Jesus, where the spirit of christ or the Holy Spirit comes to live in our hearts. Matthew 7:22-24 refers to personal relationship in “I never knew you”. Revelation 3:20 speaks to the christian who has locked Jesus out of their heart to let him back in to fellowship with them.
It sounds reasonable that catholics may understand your text as referring to the Lord’s Supper, but that interpretation is foreign to the context.
It sounds reasonable that catholics may understand your text as referring to the Lord’s Supper, but that interpretation is foreign to the context.
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Daniel_Marsh
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Philippians 1:19
Yes, and I will continue to rejoice, for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.
1 Peter 1:11 (New International Version)
11trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
Romans 8:9-11 (New International Version)
9You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
Yes, and I will continue to rejoice, for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.
1 Peter 1:11 (New International Version)
11trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
Romans 8:9-11 (New International Version)
9You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
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guanophore
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They are one and the same, Daniel. Receiving Jesus in the eucharist is where we enter deeply into relationship with him, and He enters our hearts by faith.
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mercygate
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A Catholic would say that all of that is IN the Eucharist. All of Christ. Everything He is, yesterday, today, and forever. When we say “Amen” before receiving the Eucharist it means we accept everything that Jesus IS.
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goodcatholicman
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Thanks for the heads up,Daniel. Although I believe the OP was interested in what “receiving Christ” means from the Catholic perspective not the view point of a non-Catholic religion.
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juliamajor
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Catholic theology works on “both/and” not on “either/or” as most protestants. so therefore it can mean Eucharist but it also can mean entering a personal relationship with Christ:thumbsup:
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