Do you view Holy Communion as Literal or Symbolic?

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Incorrect. I have spent two years investigating every aspect of eating in the New Testament and the facts reveal the following.......

1. To break bread means to eat a meal.
2. Communion is unknown in the New Testament
3. Passover was once a year not every Sunday
4. It was not understood to be communion.
5. The only thing the Jewish church understood was a meal.
6. There is no evidence that they had bread and wine as a separate event.
7. Unleavened bread was always used on the Sabbath.
8. The bread and wine were not his body as the Jews were forbidden to drink blood and eat flesh so there was no way he was going to tell them to do what the law forbade.
9. You may understand it to be communion but the Jewish church did not.
10. The New Testament Jewish church broke bread every evening to ensure everyone had eaten that day and had not gone hungry. To offer a sip of wine and a piece of bread to someone who was hungry would be an insult.

I cor 11 refutes number 2 above

No argument from me. Liturgy almost always gets in the way of relationship. Some practices are for the edifying of the body some are for establishing a person's identity some are for anchoring the soul, etc. These practices should not be seen as liturgical but, rather, common among the people of God. Communion, for example, can be practiced with table wine and bread at almost any meal.

In the New Testament it was once a year at the Passover.

In many cases, the PhD is granted as long as the student "toes the party line" and tells the approvers what they want to hear.

Simply having a PhD is not a guarantee you are correct.

Many professors in universities and seminaries have "agendas" that require the student being mentored to agree with their belief.

Why did Jesus make it a separate event at the Passover meal? Why did he not simply say, "well, now that we've completed our meal, remember that when you eat the bread and drink the wine, you are eating my flesh and drinking my blood..."

Holy Communion is key to sanctification. It is that Daily Bread we ask for in Our Lord's Prayer. St. Paul said we should discern the Lord's Body when we eat. We do this by exercising faith in God's Word. God said "This is My Body", therefore it becomes His Body.

Likewise, when He said, "Let there be Light", there was Light. Even Martin Luther agreed. Only John Calvin disagree. For myself, I stick with what the Holy Scriptures clearly teach, and what the Whole Church unanimously believed for 1500 years -3/4ths of Church History. Holy Communion is clearly literal.

John 6 is probably the most evident proof.

God Bless.

There is no scriptural reference for "..once a year at Passover"?

Instead, we read in 1 Corinthians 11

Jesus said (regarding the cup) "This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” Paul went on to write: "For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup (the Lord's Supper), you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes."

"Once a year at Passover" is a liturgical standard of some denomination. The Lord's Supper is not the Passover. Besides, we (as believers) may not celebrate the Passover (and why would you except for tradition?) so the standard is nonsensical.

And it was not referred to as the Lord's Supper.

No scriptural reference? haven't you read the telling of the Passover meal where Jesus changed it from a Jewish experience to a Christian one?

And the NT Church was made up primarily of Jews who would have no notion of a Sunday morning, (They met on the Sabbath) or drinking a sip of wine or piece of bread.

Having studied the background to the NT Church they met daily for fellowship, prayer, the apostles teaching and for the breaking of bread which means to eat a meal. And when I say studied the background I mean reading 60 books on the subject from writers of all different persuasions and eras so I think I have got it pretty well covered.

And we read in 1 Corinthians 11 that it was done in the context of a MEAL. Not a religious ritual involving a sip of wine and a piece of bread. And it was not referred to as the Lord's Supper. And the passage makes it very clear they had gathered for a meal, not a sip of wine and piece of bread.

Hey, I've got the original chalice from the Lord's supper. Do you guys need it or do you already have enough of these?

So, according to your conclusion, Paul taught the gentile believers in Corinth to celebrate Jewish holidays, like Passover, and then to add Christian liturgy to the days?

I think you understand how that is not correct.

I DO agree that communion, as celebrated in boxes on Sunday, is also not the pattern Paul wrote about.

And yet the Bible calls it the Lord's Supper. So you are just making up your own false narrative.

Hi Must. Here is one passage, among many, showing Sunday Communion was already common in the Early Church.

"On the first day of the week we came together to break bread" (Acts 20:7)

In fact, if we read Luke 24 carefully, we see the First Sunday Communion Service was given by the Lord on Resurrection Sunday itself.

"On the Road to Emmaus
13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a] from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing him.

17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

19 “What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

What is that "same day". Luk 24 makes clear it was Resurrection Sunday, the Lord's Day, the Day that He rose from the dead. God Bless.

in Corinthians it is a MEAL