[Theo]

See, you quote Scripture too, and the truth is right in front of your very eyes:

"For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes."

Those of us who are not Roman Catholics prefer to use the term Scripture uses: wait for it ... wait for it ... here it is: "bread."

[MrB]

Seems to me a simple medical test of the Host after the transub occurs would reveal if it was indeed hemoglobin and flesh.

[MrB]

Never mind scripture, though...

it’s what MEN (priests, pope, etc) say that has the authority.

[Romulus]

Who authorized you to interpret Scripture? Seriously — who? Where does your authority come from, that anyone should listen to you?

[rzman21]

I guess St. Ignatius of Antioch fell asleep in class when St. Peter was teaching him the faith.

I’ll take what a second century Christian teacher had to say over somebody like John Calvin who lived 16 centuries later any day.

[one Lord one faith one baptism]

read 1 Corinthians 10:17

is there one loaf? only in the sense there is One Lord.

it is amazing that there are those that attack a doctrine that was universally believed by the Church for 16 centuries before heresies arose.

read what Ignatius wrote about the Eucharist, do you think St John did not teach him properly what the Eucharist is?

why do you think Jesus didn’t say “this REPRESENTS my body”?

[Cronos]

And see, your post does its excerpt instead of reading the whole -- those of us who believe in the Bible as the Word of God and not in excerpts read it and understand it in its entirety -- so it is "The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread." --> and as our Lutheran Protestant friends say --> we also partake of and "participate in" the true body of Christ.

And then, if you happened to read in entirety instead of in excerpts you would see that in 1 Cor. 11:26, Paul says: "For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes." Paul expressly states here ........................that those who eat this bread and drink this cup are also partaking of the true body and blood of Christ.

And, to continue with what our Protestant Lutheran brethren say: So "real" is this participation in Christ's body and blood, in fact, that (according to Paul) those who partake of the bread and wine "in an unworthy manner" are actually guilty of "profaning the body and blood of the Lord" (1 Cor. 11:27). (Partaking of the Lord's Supper "in a worthy manner," of course, is not something that we "do" or "accomplish" on the basis of our "personal holiness" or "good works.

Stop reading in excerpts -- that is what leads to your faulty theology.