You wrote:
“What might the difference be?”
You don’t see the difference between a divine Person and a feeling? THE Spirit is the Holy Spirit. The word spirit can also mean a part of a person. The word “spiritual” has a wide range of meanings nowadays. It can even mean just a feeling or sentiment. You don’t see a wide difference between those things? If you can’t, then you are seriously missing the obvious.
“A spiritual presence is the real presence in this age.”
No. THE Real Presence is the real presence in this age.
“He said that he would send the spirit, not a package from the celestial butcher shop!”
The Spirit He sent is the Holy Ghost. He gives of Himself in the Eucharist.
“You sound just like the nutty unbelievers that try to ‘debate’ Bob Dutco on his radio program!”
I have no idea who that is and you might want to reconsider how you spend your free time. What I sound like is an orthodox Christian. I sound just like all the orthodox Christians of the last 2,000 years.
Why must you constantly do battle with a flimsey strawman, rather than addressing what I wrote in my post?
I said nothing about a “feeling,” that is where your Godless unbelieving mind has taken you.
You paganism requires a pagan ‘priest,’ and that ‘priest’ has to have powers created by the men that created the belief. That is Papism.
God’s word says plainly that Christ’s presence here in this age is his spirit. That is not a ‘feeling,’ he speaks to his own. If he speaks not to you, then you are obviously not his.
Please do not diminish my Lord to a ‘feeling.’
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But nothing at all like any of the Christians of God's inerrant word!