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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: You wrote, "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." And yes I think there is a deeper meaning. If I understand the word correctly and especially in this application there is a much deeper meaning. Koinonos also implies Companionship, Fellowship, of being a Partaker, being a Partner. If we explore the words Companion, Partner and Fellowship they speak of a relationship. In other words eating of the bread and drinking of the wine brings us into relationship with Christ that didn't exist before. There is a real analogy between the covenant meal which is participated in when a blood covenant is cut and the Last Supper. If you study Blood Covenants the participants of the covenant meal actually enter into the covenant even though they were not the covenant makers. In this application Jesus and God cut covenant but all that partake in the covenant meal known as the Last Supper became partakers of that covenant. This process became perpetual when Jesus commanded this meal be eating often. Thus we eat of the covenant meal we are becomming covenant people, partners in the covenant, active participants of the covenant. We are establishing a deeper relationship with Christ and God the Father. You are correct there are many different views of communion but most focus on the process of the act itself or the elements and what are their properties but I think this passage I Cor 10:14-22 takes us past men's bickerings to something many don't grasp. |