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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I know what you mean about partaking spiritually. But I think if we eat bread and drink wine which signifies blood, spiritually, or symbolically, we are pretending to eat flesh and drink blood. If it's not real, then it's pretend. Baptism also has some pretend things in it. When we go into the water we pretend we are dying and being buried.
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This is real stuff, not pretend.
1 Corinthians 11:27-32
27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. 29 For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. 30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. 31 But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment. 32 Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world.
Romans 6: 3-4
3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.