> > Every Protestant Church has the Eucharist as well. With a lot less > > superstition, I dare say. > > -- > > LOL Superstition. > > It is the living Lord in your presence. Not sure that you can kick it > up much higher then that.
The doctrine of "transubstantiation" is one of many in Catechism that are simply not tenable in Scripture (the eternal virginity of Mary being the other, directly refuted in the gospels), and causes non-believers to stumble big time. The idea that you're only in the presence of the Lord when you eat a piece of his actual flesh transformed by a ritual of some priest from a piece of bread is utterly foreign to what Jesus says, and to the tradition from which the symbolism he employed taught. He says nothing more than "Do this in memory of me" -- this being a very symbolic breaking of bread and drinking of wine in memory of his sacrifice, which has deep and profound symbolic roots in the Tanach, related mainly to the Passover. On the other hand, I give Catholicism credit for using real wine, at least, and encouraging frequent fellowship around the Lord's supper. My Baptist friends still insist he used Welsh's Grape Juice and crackers and don't do it enough IMHO... in Acts it talks about them doing it all the time. In my church if we do it once a quarter it's a lot. So much for sola scriptura... ;) As to the original post about sex and sexuality.. there is no question Satan has cleverly used a Spirit of Religiosity in the Church during and since the Dark Ages (which were a kind of heyday for him, not unlike the period we'll be entering soon, and are already in) to invent twisted doctrines about godly sex and sexuality (among other things), from which modernity suffers, both from the doctrines themselves and the counter-reactions to them, which are just as twisted and perverted. All this of course and as usual IMHO. :) - Bob > > -- > Stephen Russell > Sr. Production Systems Programmer > SQL Server DBA > Web and Winform Development > Independent Contractor > Memphis TN > > 901.246-0159 > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
