"Christ was real specific on the issue of marriage, but otherwise silent on the issue of homosexuality -- to the extent that we know anything that he said".
Luther and Zwingli had met at Marburg in 1529 in an attempt to iron out differences, but they could not agree on the question of Christ's real presence in the Eucharist.
Both recognized the centrality of the Eucharist to Christian life, yet they broke not only with Roman Catholic teaching but also with fellow reformer Martin Luther, who maintained belief in Christ's real presence.
We affirm boldly and with great joy our belief in Christ's real, historical resurrection from the dead, which is the basis for our faith and hope.
The "authenticity" or otherwise of the Shroud of Turin does not have any implications for whether or not Christ was real, or whether He was divine.
"Do you want to come upstairs for coffee?" Eight little words that – thank Christ – no real human has ever actually used to usher in coitus, at least not outside of George Clooney Nespresso ads or romcoms for no-sex mums.
A reserved host -- the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ consecrated from leavened bread and wine -- is prepared at this service and is preserved on the altar the whole year as a sign of Christ's real and living presence in His temple.
Though grounded in theatrical illusion, the puppet Petrouchka, who has "died" for love as a type of Christ, is more real than the Charlatan wants to think.
Why I was so taken by this is slightly beyond me now – true, I had just started at grammar school myself, and even 60-odd years later there were, I now appreciate, remarkable continuities between the fictional Colham School and my own grottily real Christ's College Finchley; but unlike Willie I never felt that secondary education made any great claims on me at all.
Welles gives a pithy interview to a visiting journalist in which he delivers Pasolini's own creed as a Marxist and a Catholic; and Stracci, the real Christ among men, suffers an intimate scourging of Biblical proportions when he is mocked by the crew as he lies on the Cross and awaits his scene.
