“Calling that wafer a “host” crosses the line for me - and others who bow not to the pope or the RCC. Unless one accepts what we consider a heretical interpretation of the text, that wafer is nothing more than a wafer. Unless it is a host to microscopic vermin.”
When you call the host a wafer, you are exercising your freedom to accept or deny Jesus’s exact words - or the interpretation given to them by the RC church. However, please do not refer to the communion host (or wafer, as you call it) as possibly “containing microscopic vermin.” I realize you are probably being sarcastic, and do not mean to insult. Never-the-less, are you 100% certain that your interpretation is correct. What if you are not correct? Perhaps a bit of caution in your written words might be in order. Not for me of course, but in respect for Jesus.
Have a good day!
I appreciate your civility.
You are correct and I thank you for assuming that I was not meaning to insult by my comments.
The communion wafer can only be a host if something lives in it. From a Reformed perspective, Christ is not in that wafer, so it would have to harbor some other form of life to rightly be called a host. The only thing I could think of was microscopic vermin (not a technical term, I realize).
I respect the Lord Jesus - just not aberrant doctrine.