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1 | communion: symbolic or something more? | 1 Cor 11:29 | Hank | 84968 | ||
Money in any form -- cash, checks, bonds, stocks, treasury notes -- is a symbol. It will not buy anything until it is offered by the buyer and accepted by the vendor. It will not pay any debt until it is offered by the debtor and accepted by the creditor. When a car dealer accepts cash for a car, the cash does not become the car. The cash is merely the medium of exchange, the symbol, as it were, of the valuation placed on the car. When followers of Christ partake of the fruit of the vine and the bread in communion in a worthy manner, Christ accepts these symbols of rembrance of His body and His blood that He shed on the cross. They are in a certain sense "legal tender" but retain their original properties and do not become transubstantial any more than cash becomes a car when it is offered and accepted as a medium of exchange. --Hank | ||||||
2 | communion: symbolic or something more? | 1 Cor 11:29 | dschaertel | 85029 | ||
Money in these forms is not merely a symbol. A symbol has no value. The check and other forms of money have value because they are authorized. There is a promise associated with it. It becomes effectually money. Money takes the form of the check. Just as God took on the form of a man. Jesus was 100 percent human. He was a man like any other man. He had blood and DNA etc... The bread and wine are still bread and wine. The sacrificial body and blood of Christ take on the form of bread and wine just as God took on the form of a man. It is, however, only in the context of Holy Communion that this occurs. All bread and wine are obviously not the body and blood of Christ. |
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