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Originally Posted by Amanah
I attempted to work through it on my own. We are being taught that communion is for remission of sins, and only leadership ordained ministry can administer it.
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I have heard the teaching that healing is provided for in communion (Dr Gene Scott used to teach that) but I have never heard about remission of sins being in communion except by the Roman Catholic Church and its offshoots.
The initial remission of sins is applied to the individual in baptism. After that, if they sin, they need to repent, at which point they are forgiven. I cannot find anything in scripture to indicate that the Lord's supper is designed for the remission of sins, the way baptism or confession and forsaking sin is. The only way I can see communion being associated with remission of sins would be to argue thus: Saints partake of the Lord's Supper as an act of communion with Christ and his Body, failing to do so indicates a lack of communion with Christ and his Body, which in turn means one is simply outside the faith and still in their sins. But to claim the Lord's Supper is itself a means for providing remission of sins to Christians who sin after baptism is not found in Scripture, at least it hasn't been found by me.
The RCC claims the requirement to "eat My flesh and drink My blood, or else you have no life in you" as the basis for "the sacrament of communion which provides remission of sins". They take eating His flesh literally, since they believe the words of the priest literally changes the bread into the actual flesh of Christ. What's weird is they refuse to give the cup to the faithful, so it seems as if none of the faithful catholics "have any life in them" per their own doctrine. At least the Eastern Orthodox give the faithful both bread and wine.
