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To: terycarl; Mark17; imardmd1; MHGinTN; metmom; boatbums
Of course it looks like and tastes like bread and wine.....but it is exactly what Christ said it was.....

Not if you take it purely literal, for "he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you," (Lk. 22:19) does not say it still looked like and tastes like bread, nor does "This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you," say that the contents looked like and tastes like wine. And what He does say is that what He have them was His body and shed blood, and which body and blood certainly was not some metaphysical entity that would not look, taste and scientifically test as real flesh and blood.

Such a crucified Christ is more Gnostic than Christian, and denies that Christ manifestly came in the flesh. Thus if "This is my body which is given for you," "my blood, which is shed for you" is to be taken purely literal, then it would have to be the very tangible, manifestly incarnated Christ "which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life." (1 John 1:1)

But instead, Catholicism construes the "my body which is given for you," my blood, which is shed for you" into some mysterious metaphysical form that is nowhere seen in Scripture but instead takes Greek philosophy to explain.

Even the Lord's resurrected body manifestly was flesh, as Thomas found, which was before false teaching made Christ into an entity that would not look, taste and scientifically test as real flesh and blood, and which entity is to be physically literally consumed in order to obtain spiritual life. And which is utterly foreign in the totality of Scripture interpretive of the gospels.

665 posted on 08/15/2016 6:54:09 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212
1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Galatians 1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: But Whom did Saul/Paul confer with? The Glorified Jesus, Who is no longer inhabiting a corruption body. Yet Catholic Mass claims to feed corruption, to transfer spiritual Life! It is the most obvious lie yet so deeply believed by those proud of how well they are striving to obtain salvation.

666 posted on 08/15/2016 7:17:06 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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