re: Milo on Jehovah’s Witness, Christian Scientists, Mormons, etc

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You boil the entire 4000 year story of salvation history down to John 3:16

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I don't, and I can't help but consider the irony in you claiming Protestants are all doing this.

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It's about the only thing that holds Protestantism together, once you go outside of it, you have to form another "Denomination", which is what we see happening over the last 500 years.

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It's about the only thing that holds Protestantism together, once you go outside of it, you have to form another "Denomination", which is what we see happening over the last 500 years.

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I'd say most of Protestantism is held together by a combination of the historical creeds (Apostles' Creed and Nicene Creed in particular) and the five sola's of the Reformation.

As "Protestant" churches apostatize and deny these basic things, they no longer should be considered "Protestant" because they are no longer even Christian.

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e I believe the only thing I contribute to it is the sin

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Well, at least you got that right

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1. The Blessed Mother is honored and venerated. Apparently, you are not knowledgeable on the subject or you would clearly know the definitive lines that differentiate your ignorant remark.

2. The Blessed Mother only had Jesus.

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Its baffling people want to downgrade TBM in a time when womens rights are so important.

You would think every single woman would be singing her praises as someone who is respected and loved but naw.

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do not. I participate in the Eucharist (we just called it the Lord's Supper or Communion). I partake of His body spiritually but believe He is truly and really present in the sacrament, but spiritually rather than bodily/physically.

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So you admit that you deny scripture in your very first statement.
You reject the clear words that we must eat his body. You admit it
End of discussion

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You boil the entire 4000 year story of salvation history down to John 3:16
You are lazy and dishonest with yourself

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Salvation has to be as simple as John 3:16, or else it involves works (see Catholicism).

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Ephesians 2:8-9
New International Version
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

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Well he is correct in many aspects but he does miss the KEY connection with these cults. Anyone care to chime in on this?

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I don't care what doctrine says. All the proof you need is how people are acting in this thread.

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So you question when I post the doctrine of the Catholic Church, but then say you don't care what the doctrine says, the makes no sense and neither do you.

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So you admit that you deny scripture in your very first statement.
You reject the clear words that we must eat his body. You admit it
End of discussion

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That's a dishonest conclusion. It's as if you didn't actually read my statement.

The issue is not whether or not I partake of Christ, but whether I do so physically or spiritually.

Jesus used metaphors for truthful teachings all throughout the Gospel of John. Jesus said He is the bread of life (John 6:35), but clearly you don't think that Jesus is bread. In fact, you think that after consecration, the bread of the Eucharist isn't even bread, but it's Jesus' own physical/literal flesh-body. You differentiate between bread and Jesus' body, and yet Jesus said He is the bread of life. Obviously Jesus wasn't saying He was literal bread in that statement, but that He is to us spiritually what bread is to us physically: He sustains us spiritually and gives us spiritual life.

Jesus also said that He is light (John 8:12), a shepherd (John 10:11), a gate/door (John 10:7), and a vine (John 15:1). He said He gives living water (4:10).

Jesus wasn't a literal shepherd by profession but was a leader, protector, and caregiver of His "sheep" (we are not literal farm animals but people).

He isn't a gate door, but the gate-keeper to eternal life as the only means to salvation.

He doesn't give literal water to His people but is the life-giving spring of eternal life.

You don't argue that when He says those things that He's talking about literal, physical objects, right? Jesus used word pictures to describe spiritual realities and He did the same thing with giving bread and wine to represent His body and blood really and truly being broken and poured out on the cross for the forgiveness of sins.

You look at the sign instead of the thing signified. You look at the bread and think you have forgiveness by merely eating of it while I look to the one that the bread points to: Jesus Christ, the real and true bread of life who really and truly died on the cross for the sins of His people and who is really present in the sacrament, though present spiritually.

So no, I don't deny Scripture in my observance of the Eucharist any more than you deny Scripture when you don't believe that Jesus' body is comprised of physical bread.