Musings

MUSINGS THIS IS MY BODY TAKE AND EAT THIS IS MY BLOOD TAKE AND DRINK SIMPLE STATEMENTS BUT SCHOLARS HAVE ARGUED FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS AS TO THEIR MEANING AND HOW WITNESS THE SCHOLAR’S DEBATE ROMAN CATHOLIC: SACRIFICE; TRANSUBSTANTIATION EASTERN CHRISTIANITY: TRUE SACRIFICE AND OBJECTIVE PRESENCE BUT PIOUS SILENCE ON THE PARTICULARS ANGLICANS/EPISCOPALIANS: REAL PRESENCE WITH OPINION LUTHERANS - THE SACRAMENTAL UNION: "IN, WITH, AND UNDER THE FORMS" METHODISM - REAL PRESENCE AS "HOLY MYSTERY" CALVINIST REFORMED: SPIRITUAL FEEDING, "PNEUMATIC" PRESENCE ZWINGLIAN REFORMED: NO REAL PRESENCE ET CETERA ET CETERA ETCETERA WHY SHOULD IT TAKE A PHD TO UNDERSTAND GOD GOD HAS SAID IT I BELIEVE IN GOD OR OTHERWISE NOTHING MAKES SENSE I LEAN MORE TO THE EASTERN CHURCH TO THE INDWELLING OF GOD WITHIN ME IN THE JEWISH TRADITIONAL ANIMAL SACRIFICES PART OF THE ANIMAL WENT TO THE PRIEST PART WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE PART WAS GIVEN TO THE DONOR FOR A FEAST IN HONOR OF THE SACRIFICE IT WAS THOUGHT THAT GOD ENTERED INTO THE SACRIFICE BECAME ONE WITH THE SACRIFICE SO THAT WHEN PEOPLE ATE THE SANCTIFIED GIFT THEY FELT THEY WERE PARTAKING OF GOD NOT A STRANGE IDEA IN THAT PERIOD OF HISTORY IT WAS A COMMON THING THIS GOD MEAL IN ANCIENT TIMES THAT TAKING GOD WITHIN THEMSELVES THEY BECAME GOD-LIKE SINCE GOD CANNOT BE DIVIDED THEY BECAME OF GOD BECAME AS WITH ONE NATURE AND ALL THE FELLOW COMMUNICANTS BECAME AS ONE WALKING IN THE STRENGTH OF THAT MEAL FORTY DAYS FRANK A VOLLMER