I’ve already sent a private message to the Religion Moderator. He/She probably just hasn’t gotten to it yet.
Please be patient.
I can pull post #2 or open the thread, but it cannot remain a Catholic Caucus when it contains commentary about what Protestants believe and/or say.
In expectation of what? Hopefully, that the caucus designation will be lifted, and/or that your post #2 will get pulled.
Why do Fundamentalists and Evangelicals reject the plain, literal interpretation of John 6? For them, Catholic sacraments are out because they imply a spiritual reality—grace—being conveyed by means of matter. This seems to them to be a violation of the divine plan. For many Protestants, matter is not to be used, but overcome or avoided.
One suspects, had they been asked by the Creator their opinion of how to bring about mankind’s salvation, Fundamentalists would have advised him to adopt a different approach. How much cleaner things would be if spirit never dirtied itself with matter! But God approves of matter—he approves of it because he created it—and he approves of it so much that he comes to us under the appearances of bread and wine, just as he does in the physical form of the Incarnate Christ.