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1 | communion: symbolic or something more? | 1 Cor 11:29 | Perceval96 | 84938 | ||
The passage 11.23-32 (which contains your verse) comes between two other passages about disunity in celebrating the Lord's Supper (11.17-22 and 11.33-34), the last of which seems to me to sum up a complete argument. If you read your verse in this wider context, it might lead you to conclude that the body in 11.29 is the ecclesia as the body of Christ. (Paul has already referred to the body in this sense in 6.15, and will use the metaphor extensively in 12.12 onwards.) The above is how I have always read (and preached) the passage. I, too, come from a tradition that regards the Lord's Supper as a symbolic act, a memorial. Against the spirit-infused interpretation you mention (which presumably identifies the body in v29 with the body in v24) I suggest it is relevant that the body is only eaten and not drunk. Of course, Paul does not always argue neatly, but on the whole I find more coherence in taking the body as the ecclesia. Hope this helps. |
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2 | communion: symbolic or something more? | 1 Cor 11:29 | dschaertel | 84943 | ||
Even taking the body as the church doesn't exempt one from understanding the idea of the true presence of Christ in the form of bread and wine. The church according to Paul is the "body of Christ". I accept that as quite literally true. Since the covenant that Jesus instituted is the Lords Supper, that same presence must be manifest in the elements of the covenant. Take for example the writing of a check. Obviously it isn't cash money, yet when authorized by the one who owns the money, it becomes money to the person it is made out to. It is in the form of a check, but it is effectually money. Not merely a symbol. |
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