There are numerous metaphors in Scripture. Surely you don’t think God really has wings, for example, do you? It is clear by its context that the bread used in Communion is meant to show Jesus as the fulfillment of the Passover. Anything more is unbiblical, and results in perverse doctrines.
Again, I stand with Paul, who wrote (and I quote):
“For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”
Paul said “BREAD,” and so do I. Among other things, he understood the partaking of the BREAD to be a proclamation of Christ’s completed (COMPLETED, as in FINISHED) work on the Cross. If you have a problem with that, take it up with Paul.
Or are you saying that Scripture is wrong? That maybe there was a typo? Or maybe Paul used the word “bread,” but didn’t really mean “bread”? Paul used the word “proclaim,” but maybe he really meant “perform.”
I’m concerned that you are so sold on this unbiblical doctrine, that you won’t accept the clear teaching of Scripture.
And that you call me a non-Christian shows your disregard for Christ, my Savior, and unhealthy regard for your Roman Catholic tradition.
So you are now saying that the New Earth version of Creation is metaphoric?
Jesus said “This is My Body”
do you imagine He could have said “This REPRESENTS My Body”?
if He meant that it only “represented” His Body?
but we have no need to have any doubt what He meant, the Apostles taught the Real Presence and the Catholic Church received it’s doctrine from them as evidenced by Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, etc. etc.
we need to go to the 16th century to have this “represents” heresy arrive on the world scene.
This is My Body seems clear to me, who is rejecting the clear teaching of Scripture??
Christians don’t attack the Church, the Body of Christ on earth. do they?
He does not understand ...