I find it odd that you never contemplated this before. Are you thinking about coming back? ;-)
The idea of God being physically present in our Tabernacles is a fulfillment of the time in the desert, when God traveled with the Israelites. God had a physical presence in the world then. He does now, but He is not limited to just one location.
The Eucharistic theology we have is the one thing that so totally seperates us from all other Western churches. It is the reason for the accusations of us being the Great Harlot, etc.
If the Catholic Church is not right about God being Physicaly Present in the Eucharist, then we are nothing but devious idolators, lost forever in our crazy theology.
If it is God, then bow down. If it is not, then you are violating the 2nd commandment.
SD
Quite the contrary, it makes me even more certain that I made the right decision. No offense intended, but to me, what the Catechism refers to as the "Worship of the Eucharist"(#1378) has the uneasy feeling of idolatry. I don't of course accept even the notion of God being incarnated in a man. But the notion that God is really present in the consecrated bread and wine in such a way as to make an inanimate object worthy of latria is antipathetic to me. God is both immanent and transcendant. He is omnipresent. He is, therefore, present in the large oak tree in the park. I do not, however, worship the tree.
but He is not limited to just one location.
Do you really think He ever was?
Correction - it is one of the Manifold reasons that title hangs over the Catholic Church.
If the Catholic Church is not right about God being Physicaly Present in the Eucharist, then we are nothing but devious idolators, lost forever in our crazy theology. If it is God, then bow down. If it is not, then you are violating the 2nd commandment.
And the catholic church is wrong about it.