
Originally Posted by
Idolater
This is clearly the Church.
Or, that Apostle to the Gentiles is fulfilling Isaiah. But also, the Lord did command the Eleven thusly: Matthew 28:19 KJV 'all nations'
The Church; go on...
That's unnecessary to postulate. We can just say that the Church was the plan.
So where you Dispensationalists separate them, the Church has always seen them as a single thing, especially in the sacraments, which are a unique blend of heaven and earth, more so than other examples where heaven and earth meet---and the most significant unity between heaven and earth is the Body of Christ herself, the Church, and especially when she worships her Husband, Prophet, Priest, and King, the Lord Jesus Christ, especially in the Mass, and especially in the celebration of Holy Communion, the Eucharist, eating His body, and drinking His blood, just as He instructed, and as's recorded three times in the Gospels, and once in 1st Corinthians, and then in John 6, we get a thorough lesson on what Christ meant when He said, "This is My body," and, "This is My blood."
Ironic. I'm not being mean here, but observing the irony, not pointing it at you, but relating what yours and my view entails about the other---that you're blinded in your thinking; that that's why we disagree, because one of us is blinded. That's what we each have concluded about the other.
That seems on its face dysfunctional. And repeating, I'm not pointing it at you. It seems dysfunctional that this is my conclusion about you and yours, also. I'm going to have to think more on this.
Unless the Church is the one thing, that you and yours keep separating into two.
I understand this as the crux of all Dispensationalisms.
Every Mass, it is typical to read three passages from Sacred Scripture. There's usually one Old Testament reading, and there is always one Gospel reading (the third and final reading is always from a Gospel), and there is always one Pauline passage also. Additionally, when Paul wrote that he 'preaches Christ, and Him crucified,' I can personally think of no better way to do this, visually, than to hang up crucifixes everywhere. fwiw.