Sam Stephens
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Sam Stephens
@samstephens91
Growing Christian, Anglican, advocate of good preaching, lifelong student and educator. Time is too short to keep asking the wrong questions.




Another Protestant* flaw is that they only have two categories: 1) Literal - Jesus meant it 2) Figurative - He didn't really mean it Example: John 3, "You must be born again." • Nicodemus takes it literally (How do I go back in the womb?) • Protestants take it figuratively (Baptism is just a nice metaphor) • Catholics take it spiritually (Baptism is a true, spiritual regeneration) If Christ's words are "figurative" we can basically ignore them because they don't describe reality But Christ's words are spiritual. They describe invisible realities that have concrete effects in the visible world. The Church is spiritually the Body of Christ. That's not a "figure of speech" it REALLY IS His Body























