I'm not a proponent for OSAS, but I'm also not in agreement with Bill's
interpretation of John 6:47.Amen, amen I say unto you:He that believeth in me,
hath everlasting life. To take this one verse out of a chapter that was talking
about a different line of thought all together is just bad business.
Jesus knew he didn't have much longer on earth and that day he wanted to
talk about the new sacrament, the Eucharist. He told his apostles that many of
his followers would leave because of how hard it will be to understand.
There's nothing symbolic about the Ecuharist and Jesus wouldn't knowing
run off some good disciples for a joke or some symbolic word game.
No, Jesus knew it was time to table this information. After he explained
it, and many did leave him, he asked his apostles if they wanted to also go.
And we know they stayed, they knew this was no joke and not symbolic.
Jesus wanted to leave his presents in the form of his essence with his
church. The apostles were taught how he wanted it done and the final
performance was the last supper.
Jesus did this for his people, the way he did it isn't for me to question or
any other person calling themselves Christian.
One thing I didn't expect was a person with such a calloused attitude toward
a sacrament so important to Jesus and he knowing it was going to be hard
to accept by his people. Jesus was very serious with the sacraments.
Originally Posted by Bill Gray:
"Something to consider. Let's say that the wine and unleavened bread did turn
into the blood and flesh of Jesus Christ every time a priest prayed over them --
and then, the millions and millions of gullible Roman Catholics ate his body and
drank his blood. Do you realize that, over the 1700 or so years the Roman
Catholic church has been in existence -- how many tons of flesh and how many
tanks of blood this would require? I don't think there would be a warehouse big
enough to hold all that flesh -- nor a tanker large enough to hold all that blood.
And, keep in mind that we are talking about Jesus Christ's human body --
maybe 5'8" tall, possibly 150 to 180 pounds. How do we get all those millions of
tons of human flesh and all those millions of gallons of human blood --
from such a human size body?"
What makes your sick mind say this about the very God you think you
believe in?
I don't know how any Christian would condone this.
One last thing, the Church is 2000 years old, you, more than once,
want to say 1700 years old.
Prove it.
Iv