I have a genuine question. What do you make of 1 Corinthians 10:16?
"The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?"
What is the nature of the participation of which the cup and the bread are a part?
Rather than a trans/consubstantiation, or a mere memorialization, there is a type of transfiguration that happens to the bread and wine.
When Jesus was transfigured— a symbolic vessel of bread and wine as we see from John 6–it happened on a geographical altar (a mountain). He was still Jesus, still a man that bled, but he was transfigured somehow…
Perhaps something like that happens when the elements that are passed around the sanctuary—like rivers with valuable stones in Genesis, flow down Mount Zion for God’s people to receive and do in remembrance of Christ who supplies the spiritual realities behind them.
Maybe something like that can have EO’s, RC’s and RFM’s come together 🤷🏽♂️
Eh, I don't buy it. I don't think the bread undergoes any physical change, like Christ apparently did.
I think the bread comes to participate in the nature of Christ covenantally. But that doesn't mean it stops participating ontologically in the nature of bread, as RC/EO seem to require.
Extremely intriguing.
I have a genuine question. What do you make of 1 Corinthians 10:16?
"The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?"
What is the nature of the participation of which the cup and the bread are a part?
Hi Yasha, that's a good question that's hard to answer in a short post. I do give some thoughts on it in this sermon: https://redwoodchurch.substack.com/p/liturgy-as-true-magic
Thank you kindly
I appreciate this article brother. May our LORD Jesus Christ bless you.
Rather than a trans/consubstantiation, or a mere memorialization, there is a type of transfiguration that happens to the bread and wine.
When Jesus was transfigured— a symbolic vessel of bread and wine as we see from John 6–it happened on a geographical altar (a mountain). He was still Jesus, still a man that bled, but he was transfigured somehow…
Perhaps something like that happens when the elements that are passed around the sanctuary—like rivers with valuable stones in Genesis, flow down Mount Zion for God’s people to receive and do in remembrance of Christ who supplies the spiritual realities behind them.
Maybe something like that can have EO’s, RC’s and RFM’s come together 🤷🏽♂️
Eh, I don't buy it. I don't think the bread undergoes any physical change, like Christ apparently did.
I think the bread comes to participate in the nature of Christ covenantally. But that doesn't mean it stops participating ontologically in the nature of bread, as RC/EO seem to require.