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JillD
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| Location: | Visalia, California USA |
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| First Name: | Jill | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | heathen, EvFree, Messianic, LC-MS, Catholic 2007 |
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Posted: Wed Jun 27th, 2007 12:52 pm |
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Today's reading is from Genesis 15 and describes the sign of the covenant God made with Abram where he set out the animals and a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between the animal pieces. It occurred to me that, depending on how this verse is interpreted, God is present in/as the pot and the torch, right? So... If God can come to Abram as those two things, surely Christ can come to us as/in bread and wine.
I just thought this might be a good verse to help a non-Catholic understand the idea of the infinite God appearing as a finite thing - including as a man! (Funny how we have much less trouble believing a man can be God, but balk at bread being God. If we only understood that, in the infinite view of things, humans are much more like bread than we are like God, aren't we?)
Jill
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"I praise you, for I am wondrously made. Wonderful are our works! My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret." Ps 139
"Guard me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men." Ps 140
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Annie
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| Joined: | Wed Feb 14th, 2007 |
| Location: | Columbus, Ohio USA |
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| First Name: | Annie | | Gender: | Female | | Faith History: | nothing, Quaker, Mennonite, Presbyterian, Methodist, Anglican, Catholic |
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Posted: Wed Jun 27th, 2007 02:37 pm |
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I like that very much!
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Ora et labora
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