[Deo volente]

It seems the Scripture’s PLAIN wording isn’t enough. How hard can it be to read what the word says? Unless you don’t LIKE what it says. Then what to do? I guess one can always start a religion, based not on what God’s Word says but traditions that say something very different...

Wow, you just described Protestants' rejection of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist to a tee!

[26] And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke: and gave to his disciples, and said: Take ye, and eat. This is my body. [27] And taking the chalice, he gave thanks, and gave to them, saying: Drink ye all of this. [28] For this is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins.

http://www.drbo.org/chapter/47026.htm

The "reformers" did not like what the plain wording of the text said, so they started a new religion and made their own tradition which held something very different than what had been believed by Christians for 1500 years.

[Jvette]

Well, the disciples who heard these words from Jesus but rejected them as too hard to accept had to go somewhere.

[wagglebee]

In fairness, many Protestants (traditional Anglicans and Lutherans) DO accept the Real Presence (though their beliefs are somewhat different from ours). However, the fringe Protestant groups that are only significant in their own minds think they somehow speak for all Protestants.

[MarkBsnr]

The "reformers" did not like what the plain wording of the text said, so they started a new religion and made their own tradition which held something very different than what had been believed by Christians for 1500 years.

Actually, there was Luther, then Zwingli and Calvin, and then the floodgates opened to the manmade creation of anything and everything that they could think of. The Restoration movement raised the number of these novel religions exponentially, and their numbers continue today. Look in your local phone book for evidence, especially in any large metropolitan area.