Because earlier someone asserted that I hate the RCC. I was responding to that person. I don't "hate" the RCC. Neither do I venerate it. But the notion that Jesus is a wafer, the theft of which is punishable by eternal damnation seems to go beyond what the scriptures teach, in my estimation.
In my view, Jesus Christ is God, The Son, and therefore omnipotent. That wafer isn't omnipotent, else it would get itself out of that ziploc bag and present itself as alive from the dead.... like the real Jesus did from the tomb.
LOL. Amen!
I'm sorry I missed so much of this thread. The alchemy of transubstantiation errs in so many ways, not the least of all Scripturally...
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin." -- Hebrews 10:12-18"But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
To threaten violence over the theft of some congealed flour and water is satanic.