RM, would you please delete the previous article/thread. Thanks.
This is an old topic. Biblical support does not exist for the communion being the body and blood of Christ. To make that stretch, you have to claim Catholic writings are equalto Christ’s words, which they aren’t. Reference older threads. Nothing new under the sun, except Catholics trying to get themselves in the position of “required” for someone else to get to heaven. Bunk...
His body is not located in the elements themselves, nor in thousands of churches at the same time, as Luther understood, but rather his body remains in heaven where Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father. Nevertheless, we understand that the true, physical, glorified body and blood of our savior, while located in heaven at the Father’s right hand, are truly distributed to us and we feed on them to our spiritual nourishment by the mysterious and powerful working of the Holy Spirit.
So, I'm confused. Your belief is that the Bread and Wine do not become the Body and Blood until it is consumed? And one of the issues you have with the Orthodox, Catholics, and Lutherans is that Christ's body is in Heaven and cannot be present on Earth in the myraid of different Churches?