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NASB | 1 Corinthians 10:14 ¶ Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 10:14 ¶ Therefore, my beloved, run [keep far, far away] from [any sort of] idolatry [and that includes loving anything more than God, or participating in anything that leads to sin and enslaves the soul]. |
Subject: The significance of Communion |
Bible Note: Dear Edb, You wrote, "I made no presuppositions I pointed out an analogy made by Paul between a prohibited act and one we are told to partake in. For the analogy to be valid and meaningful there had to be more to the partaking of communion than mere rememberance of Christ." (sic) One cannot think, speak, hear, understand, etc. without presuppositions. Regardless, in a continuing amicable, calming, and placating effort: Paul uses the word koinonos five times. It simply means to share or partner with another. Check the other references and see if there is some kind of "deeper" sense in which he uses it. Protestantism takes a very broad view of communion. Not all protestants hold to the symbolic memorialist position that you are eschewing. That certainly marks one extreme of protestantism; the other extreme, held by our more liturgical brethren, retain a perspective much closer to the Papists. In other words, not every protestant is Zwinglian in their view of communion: Calvinists are not, Lutherans are not, and Anglicans are not, Historic Baptists are not. As I stated in post #225448, I agree that communion is more "than mere rememberance of Christ" (sic). However, 1 Corinthians 10:20, cannot bear the weight of that doctrine on its own; let alone granting the word koinonos some sort of mysterious meaning than the word warrants. I think that we might agree, however, that the 10th and 11th chapters of 1 Corinthians does much more than imply a non-memorialist perspective of communion. 1 Corinthians 11:27-30 really can bear that doctrinal weight, don't you think? In Him, Doc |