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Then John's image of drinking Jesus' blood sounds like vampirism! The massive commentaries on John disagree with you. John relocates his dicussion of Communion from the Last Supper (John 13) to John 6 and uses the Greek word "trogo" which means "munch on" to describe what it means to eat...

(3a) JESUS' AND PAUL'S FOCUS ON THE EXPERIENCE Of "DRINKING IN THE SPIRIT" "For in one Spirit we were all baptized (immersed) into one body and we were all made to drink of one Spirit (1 Cor. 12:13). Many Christians don't realize how central the image of drinking is for both Jesus and Paul's...

In the 2nd century an anti-Christian Platonist Celsus put together the version of Jesus' life circulated by Jews who opposed Him. One of their claims was that Jesus went to Egypt to study magic and even had his arms tattooed with magical spells! Hey, if it was all right for Jesus, it's all...

II. QUESTIONS PREMINARY TO A DISCUSSION OF THE REAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST IN THE ACT OF PARTAKING OF HOLY COMMUNION: Academic commentaries on John rightly note the shift in focus in John 6:35ff. from believing in Jesus as the bread of life to Eucharistic eating and drinking of Jesus flesh and...

This objective BBC video documents the visions of the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje to 6 peasant children beginning in 1980 and continuing for several years: She appears dressed like the Woman in Rev. 12, complete with starry crown. Millions had visited Medjugorje to experience the Catholic...

Ronald Nolette: "This is incorrect. John was not well verses in pagan symbology or with the machinations of pagan deities. He was very familiar with the wwritten history of a dream had by Joseph which shows this same woman who represents the nation of Israel. You pontificate from ignorance...

But she is persecuted for giving birth to Jesus. Reference Herod's slaughter of male babies. So the reference to Jesus as the author of spiritual Israel still includes Jesus' mother portrayed here in goddess-like imagery.

So you are saying that John's vision of Mary in Rev. 12 expressed in goddess imagery is an act of idolatry.

The precursor of later exalted visions of the Virgin Mary is found in Rev. 12, where she is portrayed as the spiritual mother of True Israel, a status created by her Son. Note the 12 stars in her crown: "A great portent appeared in Heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her...

THE CASE FOR MARY'S LEVIRATE MARRIAGE TO JOSEPH'S BROTHER, CLOPAS (1) In his Commentary on John John Chrysostom, bishop of Antioch, accepts a Jewish Christian tradition that, after Joseph' death, Mary marries Joseph's brother Clopas to fulfill the obligation of levirate marriage (see...

Enoch: "Since you are mischaracterizing evangelicals, looks like you are under some kind of delusion." \ As a longtime evangelical pastor and theology professor, I'm confident that I grasp evangelical attitudes better than you, who insipidly pontificate about the demise of evangelicalism with...

Heart2Soul: "Furthermore your assessment of the 2 mentioned above is based solely on your subjective view.... therefore, it can not be relevant at all." No, it is based on their irrational virulent anti-Catholic posts and consistent refusal, despite my pleas, to at least consider the relevant...

Addy: "Actually the OP is full of ACCUSATORY ASSUMPTIONS about Evangelicals... Catholics do not seem to like them very much...REALLY???? you guys know an awful lot about Evangelicals." That's because I am a lifelong evangelical, who can speak from many decades of encounters with them and who...

No, what is hilarious is your inability to season your failure to recognize that the OP is not about the Catholic Catechism, but about texts in God's Word that pose preliminary questions before we even get to Catholic beliefs. You seem so gob-smacked by these texts that you feel constrained to...

Addy: "Let me be clear... My repulsion is not toward scripture... but rather towards the institution of the Roman Catholic Church." But this thread is not about Catholic institutions; it is about PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS about God's Word BEFORE we even get to Catholic institutions. So why are you...

THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE IMAGE OF BELIEVERS AT THE PROTECTIVE CITY WALL: (1) The Role of the Righteous Standing in the Gap Made in the Wall by Enemies: "And I sought for anyone who would repair the wall and stand in the breach before Me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but...

Well, you could have removed your offensive posts on your own, but tellingly you didn't! And your admitted "repulsion" when asked to consider biblical texts that don't fit your anti-Catholic agenda is even more telling! Hence, the relevance of my judgment that you and Enoch will say...

No, you must learn to read. The OP posed questions about the meaning of particular texts in God's Word that evangelicals like you and Addy find so threatening to your anti-Catholic agenda that you can't even apply God's Word to your faith! The OP does not ask about Catholic dogma, but rather...

Notice how Enoch and fundamentalists of his ilk will say practically anything to divert attention away from critical engagement with foundational biblical texts that inform Catholic understanding of their distinctives. Enoch, season your penchant for irrelevant bluster by actually engaging the...

Enoch: "Those questions are ignored and rightly so." Those questions simply focus on basic biblical texts before which evangelicals typically freeze like Bambi in the headlights. So your comment suggests a myopic focus on just those prooftexts cited to support your narrow theological agenda...