No, it’s blasphemous to twist the holy word of God to mean what you want it to mean, to support centuries of spiritual whoredom.
Transubstantiation is simply wrong. If you can’t discern by the Holy Spirit and by a study of Scripture, contextually, what is metaphoric, what is literal, what is hyperbolic, what is symbolic, and what is poetic without consulting the Mystical Magical Magisterium or blindly following history, then you will remain in spiritual darkness.
Again, please don’t ping me to this garbage.
Wagglebee and NYer were just opening a discussion of the article. ItsOurTime, you seem very upset and hostile for no clear reason. I’m sure your strong response will be respected and no one will ping you on matters of faith if you ask. You seem somehow quite angry over a benign doctrine which has been an integral part of one of the world’s largest and greatest religions for over 2000 years. If you can only express how angry you are, why not just drop out of the conversation? I’m sure no one meant to offend you.
John 6 is pretty specific last time I checked.
**it’s blasphemous to twist the holy word of God to mean what you want it to mean**
But Protestants do this all the time. We call it YOPIOS.
So, your view of blasphemy is that it's wrong to follow what the Bible says because you happen to disagree with it. The FACT that you belong to some religious group that was formed some fifteen centuries after the Resurrection, which believes things that the majority of Christians in the world have NEVER believed, would seem to indicate that the "spiritual whoredom" has occurred sometime within the past five centuries.
Transubstantiation is simply wrong.
The fact that YOU don't believe something doesn't make it right or wrong. However, the fact that it is clearly demonstrated in Scripture makes it true.
If you can’t discern by the Holy Spirit and by a study of Scripture, contextually, what is metaphoric, what is literal, what is hyperbolic, what is symbolic, and what is poetic without consulting the Mystical Magical Magisterium or blindly following history, then you will remain in spiritual darkness.
When the Lord says, "Do THIS," there is not much left to discern.
Again, please don’t ping me to this garbage.
I never pinged you, I am simply responding to your posts.
Show me anywhere at all in the church father’s writing where the real prescence is denied. Just one example in the first 3,4, or 500 hundred years after our Lord’s crucifixion. Just one little teensy example.
I can show you many, many examples (including Jesus’ own words) where it IS His body and blood.