God's Eternal Purpose

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Originally Posted by awareness

So Lee's church, when it comes to the bread and wine, are like the Baptist church: It's symbolic fer doing the Lord's Table "in remembrance?"

While in the LC I always took the Lord's Table as symbolic. Prolly cuz I was raised that way.

Anybody? Was I wrong?

The note on John 6:54 in the Recovery Version states "Here flesh and blood are mentioned separately. The separation of blood and flesh indicates death. Here the Lord clearly indicated His death, that is, His being slain. He gave His body and shed His blood for us that we may have eternal life. To eat His flesh is to receive by faith all that He did in giving His body for us; and to drink His blood is to receive by faith all that He accomplished in shedding His blood for us. To eat His flesh and drink His blood is to receive Him, in His redemption, as life and the life supply by believing in what He did for us on the cross. By comparing this verse with v. 47 , we see that to eat the Lord’s flesh and drink His blood is to believe in Him, because to believe or to believe into is to receive ( 1: 12 )." That's a figurative interpretation.