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Images of Jesus and the Lord's Supper

Discussion in 'Baptist Theology & Bible Study' started by Reformed, Sep 24, 2019.

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  1. Reformed

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    A recently closed thread began (IMHO) with a misleading agenda to present the Baptist view of the Lord's Supper as idolatrous. Many posters adequately refuted that assertion. Because I believe the topic is important, I want to provide insight on how the Reformers (including our 16th and 17th century Particular Baptist brethren) viewed this.

    They believed images of Christ to be a popish invention and a violation of the 2nd commandment. They believed the Roman Catholic mass was heretical because of transubstantiation. They did not believe that observing the Lord's Supper as a memorial was idolatry because the elements in the Lord's Supper were never to be viewed as an image of God. The elements are used for remembrance (Luke 22:19).

    For more detail visit the following link to the appropriate chapter in the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith: 1689 LBC: Chapter 30: "Of the Lord's Supper"

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    On the local news within the last xcouple of days, was a report that Jonathan Aitken, who was a local member of parliament and was jailed for perjory, is now a Anglican priest, was preparing for his first mass. However the C of E's 39 articles say this about the mass:

    ARTICLE XXXI. OF THE ONE OBLATION OF CHRIST FINISHED UPON THE CROSS

    THE Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.
     
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    Jesus called the bread & drink His flesh & His blood. This was plainly symbolic, as He was sitting in fronta the disciples, in one piece & not bleeding. And he said to perform this rite in remembrance of Him; that is, when one prepared to eat the bread & quaff the drink, to remember he gave His flesh & blood for them. That's what WE should do today, in remembeance of Jesus' great suffering & sacrifice on OUR behalves.
     
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