Lord's supper (was Re: TD: Benny Hinn (was Re: [CS-FSLUG] RFC: Change of Statement of Faith)

[Ed Hurst]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, dmc wrote:

> When we obsess about the minutae we are in direct disobedience
> to one of His clearest themes -- freedom from the hard yoke and
> heavy burden of the Judaisers and legalists.
> 
> The bread and wine (whatever you want to speculate "wine" means,
> and that is all it is, mere speculation) are merely *symbols*.
> When we make them more than mere symbols, either by reading-in
> too much as Roman Catholic doctrine does or become rigid as
> to the form of the symbol, we at-best muddy the real point.

I'd support that analysis. There are some places in the world where the
fruit of any grapevine would be an expensive import. I cannot imagine
how the narrowly taylored laws for that people, in that place, in that
time, would be so binding on those in say, the Arctic today.

Ed Hurst
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