I'm a Southern Baptist (or at least I used to be) and unless something has changed radically since my youth, Baptists don't see it as the Body of Christ.
I'm a Southern Baptist (or at least I used to be) and unless something has changed radically since my youth, Baptists don't see it as the Body of Christ.
And Baptists never will. They believe once you are "Saved" you will go to heaven. After a Baptist is "saved" that person can still fall from grace though his own fault. Baptists don't get that part. IMO
kms61 said: "I'm a Southern Baptist (or at least I used to be) and unless something has changed radically since my youth, Baptists don't see it as the Body of Christ."
KMS, not all Evangelical Christians are Southern Baptist. In fact the definition of the word evangelical in Webster's 1913 edition includes reference to the Episcopal church.
Therefore Evangelicals can, and some do believe in the transubstantiation of the Holy Eucharist.
evangelical - definition from gcide Evangelical \E`van*gel"ic*al\, a.
1. Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history. [1913 Webster]
2. Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion. [1913 Webster]
3. Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; pre["e]minently orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of "Justification by Faith alone;" the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religious bodies not regarded as orthodox. [1913 Webster]
Southern Baptists do partake in the Lord's Supper. And the wafer or cracker is representative of the Body of Christ. While we may differ on transubstatiation (and please, I really don't want to get in a debate with anyone), the fact remains that it is representative of the Body of Christ, and the wine or juice represents His Blood.
In my book, to use such things for cheap laughs is blasphemy, pure and simple.