The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum 2 questions: Trinity, Incarnation

Ben,

VERY briefly,

Calvin considered the Lord's Supper to be an instrument of God's grace, through which believers commune in the body and blood of Christ. Bullinger explicitly rejected such "instrumentalism" and considered the Supper to be a testimony to or an analogy of God's grace, whereby God testified to the believers, through the analogy of bread and wine nourishing an invigorating our bodies, concerning the salvation and nourishment won in Christ's body and blood received in faith.

It is my contention that Christ communicates and communes with believers THROUGH His "advocate", the Holy Spirit, who He sent. The Spirit, Who is not restricted spatially, He being without a body as does Christ, i.e., He can freely function in His Omnipresence. It was the Lord's purpose in sending the Spirit that He would be "another Comforter" to believers because He would not be able to do so as would the Spirit Who could and would dwell within them and minister to them individually and corporately. Thus, it is the Spirit of God as the representative of Christ Who is actually present in the Supper.

In His Grace,