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It’s symbolic and we love doing communion here! I very much enjoy partaking in communion, the church I was going to did fresh sourdough bread. The church I’m going to now is non-denominational and they use crackers, I don’t mind either way because it is what it symbolizes that is important. Partaking in communion is commanded by God and passover is the time to do this in remembrance of him.Is communion symbolic or literal?
Did Jesus say "This is my body" (Mat 26:26) and "This is my blood" (Mar 26:28) or did he say "this is the SYMBOL of my body and the SYMBOL of my blood."?Is communion symbolic or literal?
That is a modern innovation dating back less the 500 years and arises from those in rebellion against the Roman church. It was over this issue that Luther broke with Zwingli who took a "symbolic" view and wanted to go to war with any and all Catholic kingdoms.The bread is a symbol of the literal flesh of Christ that was torn apart as He broke and the wine being a symbol of the literal of Christ blood.
Now that preaches!no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined.
both the literal is taking it serious in the manner it should be taken .Is communion symbolic or literal?
Then so is eternal life and the resurrection.It is Symbolic.
It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the FLESH profiteth nothing: THE WORDS I SPEAK UNTO YOU, THEY ARE SPIRIT, and they are life. John 6:63. They are symbolicIs communion symbolic or literal?
Well, if you think you are actually drinking warm, thick, gooey blood and cutting up a man's flesh & skin and chewing on it.... more power to you. I know I am drinking juice that a company called Welch's made, and eating a thin doughy wafer manufactured in Tampa Florida and delivered by truck.Then so is eternal life and the resurrection.
That is a modern innovation dating back less the 500 years and arises from those in rebellion against the Roman church. It was over this issue that Luther broke with Zwingli who took a "symbolic" view and wanted to go to war with any and all Catholic kingdoms.
The entire Church, from the first century, taught that the bread was the REAL (not symbolic) body of Christ and the wine was the REAL (not symbolic) blood of Christ.
Jesus said:
Jhn 6:53-57 NKJV
“Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me."
Not once did He suggest that anything he said was symbolic.
And if it is symbolic then so also is having eternal life and being raised up on the last day symbolic.
And one can only "symbolically" abide in Christ and he in you if this whole passage is "symbolic" and Jesus didn't really mean it.
Now that preaches!
Only believers in the truth that have been washed of sins and regenerated and who are living in Christ (already) should partake.
Any idea who came up with the idea that partaking brought men into living in Christ?
Seems they got the order backwards, no?
That is a modern innovation dating back less the 500 years and arises from those in rebellion against the Roman church. It was over this issue that Luther broke with Zwingli who took a "symbolic" view and wanted to go to war with any and all Catholic kingdoms.
The entire Church, from the first century, taught that the bread was the REAL (not symbolic) body of Christ and the wine was the REAL (not symbolic) blood of Christ.
Jesus said:
Jhn 6:53-57 NKJV
“Most assuredly, I say to you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me."
Not once did He suggest that anything he said was symbolic.
And if it is symbolic then so also is having eternal life and being raised up on the last day symbolic.
And one can only "symbolically" abide in Christ and he in you if this whole passage is "symbolic" and Jesus didn't really mean it.