“Post #35 does not refute, it confirms that the Eucharist is the True Presence of the Christ: Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.”
You didn’t even address anything I wrote. What do I care if you just parrot what your church believes, when you don’t even attempt to defend it? Either address my post or don’t, but don’t just blandly repeat what caused the post in the first place. This robotic “defense” of doctrine (really, it’s more like a mantra of repetition) by the RCC is very revealing.
No parroting here. We simply cite Christ’s own words and the practice of early Christian Churches, and received tradition. This you are unwilling to confront. This is something that “low-information” Christian followers are unwilling to examine. Just ask the “pastors” of the tens of thousands of mushroom Christians sects from Rev. David Koresh to Rev. Jim Jones to the Joel Osteens, Schullers, and Rev. Jeremiah Wright to current day televangelist hucksters and mega-church rock n’ roll hillbilly congregants. The early Christian belief in the Eucharist is conclusive. Here’s one example.
St. Ignatius became the third bishop of Antioch, succeeding St. Evodius, who was the immediate successor of St. Peter. He heard St. John preach when he was a boy and knew St. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. Seven of his letters written to various Christian communities have been preserved. Eventually, he received the martyr’s crown as he was thrown to wild beasts in the arena. Below is one of his letters.
“Consider how contrary to the mind of God are the heterodox in regard to the grace of God which has come to us. They have no regard for charity, none for the widow, the orphan, the oppressed, none for the man in prison, the hungry or the thirsty. They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not admit that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, the flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in His graciousness, raised from the dead.” (”Letter to the Smyrnaeans”, paragraph 6. circa 80-110 A.D.)