I live my life in the presence of Christ as He is in me and I in His in me.. there is not one moment that He and I are not in spiritual union..
I see Catholics live a spiritual life that revolves around a 20 second encounter with what they believe is Christ and then their lives move on in he same direction..they do not know him more or understand him more, communion is like a lucky charm that puts them in touch with god so they do not have to put forth any time in really spending time to know God better.
I have a question..what if the RC church is wrong and the bread is NOT the actual body of Christ, but it is actually a memorial ..you are guilty of idolatry, kneeling before a false god
The answer to that is actually quite simple:
It would mean that the Apostles John and Paul and quite possibly our Lord, Jesus Christ were LIARS. A single lie in the New Testament means that ALL of Christianity is based on lies.
The faith that Christianity requires is that the New Testament IS TRUE, but it is not surprising that Protestantism has systematically explained away the more difficult aspects of faith in order to enlarge membership. True faith sometimes REQUIRES the suspension of reason and goes far beyond the remedial intellectual exercises that defines many Protestants.
Then your understanding and knowledge of Catholics and Catholicism is woefully inadequate. I would encourage you to actually study the Catechism before you criticize what you don't understand.
Catholics share your constant and continual relationship with God AND take that relationship to a higher plane by establishing a tangible, physical, and intimate contact with the body and blood of Christ through the Eucharist. If you believe in transubstantiation you will find receiving the Eucharist exhilarating and spiritually intoxicating. If you don't and have never experienced it you cannot honestly discuss or describe it.
Okay. What's the question?
INDEED.
Therein, probably lies some of the fierceness . . .
doggedly insisting on their daffynitions, mangled history, mangled Bibles etc.
RM7-””I see Catholics live a spiritual life that revolves around a 20 second encounter with what they believe is Christ and then their lives move on in he same direction..they do not know him more or understand him more,””
I see this statement coming from someone ignorant of Catholicism who waste’s their life posting an anti-Catholic agenda on FR and live their lives hoping that someone on their long ping list will puff them up and agree with them-meanwhile you have no idea how many devout Catholic’s understand Christ,pray fervently and serve others in humble charity in a Christlike life.
RM7””there is not one moment that He and I are not in spiritual union.. “”
That would make you sinless if there is not one moment you’re not in union with Christ.
Do you think Christ is in union with you during sins you commit?In the act of sin you’re separated,not united
RM-7””I have a question..what if the RC church is wrong and the bread is NOT the actual body of Christ, but it is actually a memorial ..””
Every single early Church father without a single exception believed Eucharist to be the actual Body of Christ present and I have been blessed enough to witness miracles associated with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament,so it is impossible that the Catholic Church is wrong.Sadly, it is you who is wrong.
There are many well documented Eucharistic miracle’s through the ages ,even a Video of the Sacred Host that bled beating like a human heart on December 8, 1991 during the celebration of midnight Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Betania, Venezula
video link http://www.dsanford.com/miraclehost/hostvideo.wmv
The miraculous bleeding Sacred Host is reserved in the Augustinian Nuns Chapel, Los Teques for all to see
Eucharistic miracles around the world
http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/a3.html