I do need to ask though, what about the many millions of Protestants whose belief in the Real Presence is nearly indistinguishable from Catholic beliefs? Are they not "born again" enough for you?
Historically, The closest prots get is Luthers consubstantiation.
The majority of prots believe in a spiritual presence, not a literal.
"Do this in rememberance of Me", the text tells us it is meant as a memorial of Lord's Sacrifice, AND a proclamation, 1 cor 11:26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
The RCC did not declare the bread and wine to be literal until the 10th or 11th century. Both symbolic an literal understandings existed until then. Augustine understood them to be symbols.
Which is a far cry from dismissing it as a "metaphor" and what of the High Church Anglicans whose belief is nearly identical to the Catholic Church's.
"Do this in rememberance of Me", the text tells us it is meant as a memorial of Lord's Sacrifice, AND a proclamation, 1 cor 11:26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
That makes no sense in light of St. Paul's use of the words unworthily and guilt in the subsequent verses.
The RCC did not declare the bread and wine to be literal until the 10th or 11th century. Both symbolic an literal understandings existed until then. Augustine understood them to be symbols.
Have you actually got writings by Saint Augustine where he dismisses the Eucharist as merely symbolic?