There is an ongoing debate over the presence of Christ at the Lord's Supper.
The Roman Whore says that Christ comes to us vicariously in the host as we suck on it (mustn't chew it, for then one is chewing Jesus flesh and adding to his suffering).
The Fundamentalist says the bread is a mere symbol of Christ's giving his flesh and blood in death to pay for our sins on the cross.
The Reformed folks say Christ is present more (add your own adverb here) concurrently with the taking of the bread into our mouth.
These all tend to miss the point by being centered on the bread, or "host". The point in the Lord's Supper is that Christ is eternally present in eternity past, present, and future, and the Lord's Supper is a time to remember his past work on the cross, his literal presence as we partake of the supper, and his eternal presence as we repeat the supper "until he come". The remembrance will be redundant in heaven, for we shall "forever be with the Lord".
Why do even Baptists and Fundamentalist have a subtle superstition that, if they miss Sunday services, they MUST be there on Communion Sunday. This stupid superstition is nothing but Catholic superstition that the Lord's Supper is when I am closer to God, when Jesus is closer to me. Why? Answer: I get to eat the cookie. There he is for sure.
If it is all about showing the Lord's death until he come, then is this the only time to show the Lord's death? It is for some people who will not speak of Christ when they are in the market place unless they are out there "on visitation" beating on doors with a deacon of the pastor overshadowing them.
When did you last show the Lord's death in WalMart?
1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
And............. Finish the job please:
Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Being a witness is not only about eating the cookie once a month, or even every week as some do. It is about showing Christ to the world where the sinners are.
Final word to you Catholics-- Jesus will not come to you in the Eucharist, for the Bible tells us how he will come in his physical form in the future.
Acts 1:10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Do you imagine that Jesus will come again in the clouds as a cookie? What stupid nonsense you believe just because some counterfeit child molesting "father" told you so.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
A shouting cookie, right?
THINK, all of you out there.
LINK: Here is a Reformed writer talking to his friends about this problem.
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