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From: barry1@ihlpa.att.com (Barry O Olson)
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Subject: Re: Importance of sacrifice
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Date: 14 Sep 90 03:56:09 GMT
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[Charley Wingate commented on the Real Presence:
>  We name it bread and wine because, as far as we can taste and touch and see,
>  it is bread and wine.
> 
>  We name it the Body and the Blood because scripture and the Spirit name it
>  so.
--clh]

I don't see any problems with that. My problem stems from the insistance
on the bread and wine as the literal flesh and blood at the point of
consecration, implying some power over our God that (imo) is impossible for
me to conceive from scripture. The implication of arrogance is undigestible
for this guy:-).

barry olson