CharleyMane,
While I am SURE you will receive a ...post... from BV answering you, I hope you do not mind if I tell you what I learn from the Scriptures, then I will ask you a question, ok? I will TRY to be brief.
One of the texts you used was MArk 14:
22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
body there is : soma, so'-mah; the body (as a sound whole), used in a very wide application, lit. or fig.:--bodily, body, slave.
It is the same word used in the Corinthian letter when Paul was speaking of the Communion.
1Cor. 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Look at what Paul also said. that we are one bread, and one body....Paul, and those he was writing understood this to be the Church of which Christ is the Head.
So in light of what Jesus told the woman at the well(John 4:23-24) But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
I see that my spiritual worship to the Father also includes partaking in the bread and the cup, REMEMBERING Jesus until He comes again. ( this do in remembrance of me.)
How do you see the scripture of John 4:23-24 as physical?
thanks
dan |
