Happy Easter! I know a thread was made when the new calendar people celebrated Easter but I want to wish my fellow Orthodox a Happy Easter as well!
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Prayers can not become incantations
Praying to God is praying to God.
You don’t get to judge someone’s faith because you have decided their prayer is incantation.
If you do not eat His flesh and drink His blood, you can not be saved.
Did you know many in the early church were martyred because they believed they were eating the body of Christ and were therefore called cannibals by unbelievers?
You don’t have to agree. What I said is correct and you can read about it.
Read the Gospel of John
Jesus himself said it: unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no part in me.
Amin Amin Amin! I couldn't have said it better.
To do the will of God is to believe on Him who He hath sent.
Read the 6th chapter of the book of John and pay attention to the text and context. The context is eating bread, eating manna, and “eating Christ”.
John 6:63 is the punchline. The “flesh” that he earlier said you must “eat” to be saved matters not. The Spirit is what counts. His words are Spirit and they are Life.
Christ also said, “If your eye offends you pull it out. If your hand offends thee cut it off”. Christ taught continuously in parables to teach Spiritual truth.
So the apostles got it wrong?
No, they didn’t.
The Apostles celebrated the Communion, the Divine Liturgy, St. Mark the Evangelist one of the 70 that Christ sent into the world founded the Coptic Orthodox Church. So you're right that they didn't get it wrong as we drink the Holy Blood and eat the Holy Body of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, they agree with what I said. The only surviving writings attest that the apostles believed in the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Paul in Corinthians says that the reason many of the Corinthians were sick and dying was because they did not discern the true presence of Christ.