Faith healing, communion and foot washing

Christian ethics and theology with an Anabaptist perspective
Josh

Re: Faith healing, communion and foot washing

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Ernie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 7:34 pm
Josh wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:09 pm The Bible speaks highly of widows who have "washed the apostles' feet".
All the translations I know of say "saints", not apostles.
You're right, but the word used is a gender neutral word. In any case, we know that servants back then washed the feet of either sex. (One rather notable woman washed Jesus' feet, and the Pharisees protested her doing such.) I'm not opposed to Anabaptist segreated footwashing, but it does not have a solid biblical basis.
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Pelerin

Re: Faith healing, communion and foot washing

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steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:30 amThe Lovefeast meal is a simple rice and broth soup along with lamb, bread and butter. Typically we would butter the bread and add the meat, fold it over and eat it like a sandwich.
Am I understanding right that the sandwich bread is The Bread—i.e. the “This-is-my-Body” bread?
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steve-in-kville

Re: Faith healing, communion and foot washing

Post by steve-in-kville »

Pelerin wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 10:17 pm
steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:30 amThe Lovefeast meal is a simple rice and broth soup along with lamb, bread and butter. Typically we would butter the bread and add the meat, fold it over and eat it like a sandwich.
Am I understanding right that the sandwich bread is The Bread—i.e. the “This-is-my-Body” bread?
Nope. Just regular bread from the grocery store. The bread we use for the "breaking bread" part is typically homemade. Its pierced with a 5-pronged fork for some symbolic reasons that escape me at nearly 5am and barely no coffee 8-)
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