The Forgotten Sunday-Scripture

I think you think you're very good at logic - and I much too slow for you. Well, it seems true.

Now what's your point?

 

GE:

Dear Bob, you certainly have read Acts 2 a thousand times yet not once have noticed it in different places there speaks of two different kinds of breaking bread, as i have shown in a previous post . . . which you obviously bothered not to read.

 

My stance is not, 'to break bread' does not mean worship. It sometimes does, and other times doesn't. My stance is it should be decided case by case. Then in fact we are left with two instances in Acts where 'to break bread', factually means that the believers 'worshipped'. Those instances are, one, the first mention in Acts 2 of bread being broken, and, two, Acts 20:7, where it undoubtedly means Holy Communion.

 

GE:

All you care about is to cross swords with everybody else -- not to hear their argument!

Where do you get the idea from I "have them doing it (breaking bread=worshipping) daily"? I say they did NOT, 'daily' in the sense of every day, congregate for (official) worship; but that the text means to say they every day of worship (which first meant every Sabbath, then every 'day' of worship like Passover), 'worshipped' in the sense i.a. of Holy Communion or preaching/proclamation.

 

GE:

You have not begun paying attention to this text. It does not say "these things" 'POINTED' forward - NOT, Past Tense. It says they "(now) are pointing forward to things-in-the-process-of-coming", Continuous Present Tense.

 

Verse 17 points forward to verse 19, which explains in unmistakable language just what, the "things-a-coming" are.

But your SDA ostified dogmatism blinds you so totally, I realise I'm writing in vain. You're so all-wise, but in not a sinlge particular are able to answer me.

Now a days I no longer even attempt to speak to the SDAs here in South Africa. They are Laodecea in truest sense. But the good many Calvinists here pay much better attention; things are a coming here, for sure!