THIS IS MY BODY
TAKE AND EAT
THIS IS MY BLOOD
TAKE AND DRINK
SIMPLE STATEMENTS
BUT SCHOLARS HAVE ARGUED
FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS
AS TO THEIR MEANING
AND HOW
WITNESS THE SCHOLAR’S DEBATE
ROMAN CATHOLIC: SACRIFICE; TRANSUBSTANTIATION
EASTERN CHRISTIANITY: TRUE SACRIFICE AND OBJECTIVE PRESENCE BUT PIOUS SILENCE ON THE PARTICULARS
ANGLICANS/EPISCOPALIANS: REAL PRESENCE WITH OPINION
LUTHERANS - THE SACRAMENTAL UNION: "IN, WITH, AND UNDER THE FORMS"
METHODISM - REAL PRESENCE AS "HOLY MYSTERY"
CALVINIST REFORMED: SPIRITUAL FEEDING, "PNEUMATIC" PRESENCE
ZWINGLIAN REFORMED: NO REAL PRESENCE
ET CETERA ET CETERA ETCETERA
WHY SHOULD IT TAKE A PHD TO UNDERSTAND GOD
GOD HAS SAID IT
I BELIEVE IN GOD
OR OTHERWISE
NOTHING MAKES SENSE
I LEAN MORE TO THE EASTERN CHURCH
TO THE INDWELLING OF GOD WITHIN ME
IN THE JEWISH TRADITIONAL ANIMAL SACRIFICES
PART OF THE ANIMAL WENT TO THE PRIEST
PART WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE
PART WAS GIVEN TO THE DONOR
FOR A FEAST IN HONOR OF THE SACRIFICE
IT WAS THOUGHT
THAT GOD ENTERED
INTO THE SACRIFICE
BECAME ONE WITH THE SACRIFICE
SO THAT WHEN PEOPLE
ATE THE SANCTIFIED GIFT
THEY FELT THEY WERE PARTAKING
OF GOD
NOT A STRANGE IDEA
IN THAT PERIOD OF HISTORY
IT WAS A COMMON THING
THIS GOD MEAL IN ANCIENT TIMES
THAT TAKING GOD
WITHIN THEMSELVES
THEY BECAME GOD-LIKE
SINCE GOD CANNOT BE DIVIDED
THEY BECAME OF GOD
BECAME AS WITH ONE NATURE
ALL THE FELLOW COMMUNICANTS
BECAME AS ONE
WALKING IN THE STRENGTH
OF THAT MEAL
FORTY DAYS
FRANK A VOLLMER
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