What's the big deal with IFB and the blood of Christ?

[steve95054]

(07-03-2012 01:59 PM)Ricardo Wrote:  

(07-03-2012 12:57 PM)steve95054 Wrote:  Or unless you're Orthodox.

Tell me about it?

Type A? Type B? (Type Alpha and Omega?) High or low in white cells? What anticoagulants?

I'm not trying to make fun of anyone. I'm seriously trying to figure out how a literal interpretation of the Blood of Christ works, as opposed to a symbolic interpretation.

We don't put it under a microscope...we drink it.

Sure, if you put it under a microscope, it would probably still look like grape juice. But the Church affirms, as does the Scripture, that it is the Blood of Christ. How it is...we don't ask. It's the Holy Spirit's doing. However He does it is His business.

Neither Paul nor Christ tell us to examine it. Paul told us to examine ourselves, and to discern it: that is, to recognize it as the blood of the Lord, and to partake of it -- to enter into the mystery, not to dissect the mystery. (This, by the way, is where, in our opinion, the Lutherans and the Romans overstep -- by trying to go intellectually to a place where intellection breaks down and experience takes over.)