Hebrews 6:4-6
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. Crucifying Christ afresh is subjecting him to public disgrace.
The Catholic church just doesn't get *once for all*, does it?
I wonder what about that is too hard for them to understand.
Trying to take that square peg of bread turning into flesh and wine turning into blood but retaining all the characteristics of bread and wine, taking that square peg and trying to drive it into the round shape of Scripture doesn't work except by the sophistry we've seen enunciated herein.
The Greek “estin” of Luke 22:19, “This is (estin) the body of me” may properly be translated “means” so in line with the rest of the Scriptures Jesus words would be,
“This means my body”.
“I wonder what about that is too hard for them to understand.”
It's the impossibility of fitting much of Catholic doctrine into the confines of Biblical teachings.