http://www.hornes.org/theologia/david-bromlow/what-is-meant-by-the-spiritual-presence-of-christ-in-the-lords-supper Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:39:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.hornes.org/theologia/david-bromlow/what-is-meant-by-the-spiritual-presence-of-christ-in-the-lords-supper/comment-page-1#comment-1835 william campbell Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:48:38 +0000 http://www.hornes.org/theologia/david-bromlow/what-is-meant-by-the-spiritual-presence-of-christ-in-the-lords-supper#comment-1835 All my life i understood that the Lord's Supper was symbolic.To be truthful I never took communion in the Methodist church that i was raised in, because i knew that i was not born again and thus would not eat and drink the elements worthily. Years later,when i was born again in a Pentecostal church, i still assumed that the elements were largley symbolic as this made more sense to me and i had an antipathy to any thought of blood and flesh in the communion due to the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstansatiation. Now i attend a Luthern church and was permitted to take the sacrement of the Lord's Supper by the pastor.However as i read more of Luthern doctrine ,i became uncomfortable at the concept of the elements having effigacy,so i stopped participating in communion.I also had reservations about the Luthern concept of baptism. I would like to postulate a question.When Jesus died rigor mortis would set in meaning that any remaining blood would coagulate in the veins. How,then, would there be any blood to be literally present in the wine? All my life i understood that the Lord’s Supper was symbolic.To be truthful I never took communion in the Methodist church that i was raised in, because i knew that i was not born again and thus would not eat and drink the elements worthily.
Years later,when i was born again in a Pentecostal church, i still assumed that the elements were largley symbolic as this made more sense to me and i had an antipathy to any thought of blood and flesh in the communion due to the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstansatiation.
Now i attend a Luthern church and was permitted to take the sacrement of the Lord’s Supper by the pastor.However as i read more of Luthern doctrine ,i became uncomfortable at the concept of the elements having effigacy,so i stopped participating in communion.I also had reservations about the Luthern concept of baptism.
I would like to postulate a question.When Jesus died rigor mortis would set in meaning that any remaining blood would coagulate in the veins. How,then, would there be any blood to be literally present in the wine?

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