As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In the act of Communion, how is it that Christ forgives you for your sins?
That forgiveness or remission is literal, but how does Christ accomplish it?
St. Paul in his discourse to the Hebrews which is the finest theological dissertations on the Law, Paul makes the first legal point that the shedding of blood completes or purges the penalty of the law. A criminal sentenced to death over murdering someone, can not bring the dead to life again, but only by their forfeiture of their life can they pay for the life they stole.
In Hebrew Law from God as given to Moses, the blood of animals covers what is defined as sin or debt in breaking God's Law. The life of an animal temporarily covers that debt, because sin's penalty is the death of a person eventually, as God warned Adam and Eve that they would die the moment they disobeyed God and ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God has been Faithful in all die because of that breach, and because of that breach a far worse penalty awaits in eternal death.
Hebrews 9:22
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Jesus promised in contact or Covenant, that His Blood was a New Testament or Covenant being instituted, and when He bled on the Cross, His Blood was the offering for sin or debt for the cancelling of the penalty of those sins in eternal death.
Adam believed God that a payment would be made and was saved. The disciples believed that payment was Christ and were saved. We the Faithful believe Christ paid for our sins and are saved.
Matthew 26:
For this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Anyone who believes that Jesus blood pays for their sins, has their sins wiped out, as long as they are not deliberately sinning again in defiance of God, and from that moment on discipline themselves in observing the Law and knowing that Salvation only come from the Gift of Christ which is Grace, something we can never earn.
Romans 3:25
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
St. Luke confirms by the Holy Ghost in what St. Paul in the above was moved by the Holy Ghost to teach in each of us must repent or change our actions to stop deliberately sinning and in carrying that out, our Faith in Christ's payment and our trusting in Jesus as our Savior, our sins are wiped out forever.
Luke 24: 47
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His Name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
It is by Faith that we are justified before God, and by Faith in Christ our sins are forgiven, for by Faith we accept Communion as our Confession in our actions of what we profess is Jesus is our only Savior.
How can bodily eating and drinking do such great things?
Certainly not just eating and drinking do these things, but the words written here: “Given and shed for you for the forgiveness of sins.” These words, along with the bodily eating and drinking, are the main thing in the Sacrament. Whoever believes these words has exactly what they say: “forgiveness of sins.”
Once our sins are wiped out, we are cleansed by the Blood of Christ from the penalty of enmity with the Father, and once that enmity is ended, our souls are now ready to have sown into them the Holy Ghost, to complete our transformation from physical beings to Spiritual beings who are now in the family of God.
Acts 2:38
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
The Christian no more offers animals in blood, for we have Christ in the final Offering in the complete payment, for where there is Remission of sins, there is no more need to slay inferior animals on the Altar before God.
Hebrews 10:18
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Our partaking of Communion is our legal confession and profession, that we are inheritors of Life in the Resurrection of Jesus the Christ in the Life to come.
John 11:25
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
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