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To: Cronos

Sorry, transubstantiation is strictly Rome’s gig, and a recent one at that. It’s terribly misleading to blur it with “real” or “spiritual” presence. Early “real presence” is indistinguishable from “spiritual presence,” which you must know Rome does not teach. I think Rome would like people to conflate “real” with “corporeal,” but that’s not required by logic, language, or Scripture. God is quite real, and He is a spirit. Said so himself.

As for Luther, he did consubstantiation, which is not transubstantiation and therefore anathema per Trent. There’s no Aristotelian substance swapping. Zip. Nada. As for spiritual presence, the Service of the Didache could work in any Reformed church in the world, and in most Baptist churches. Adoring the host? Not so much.


363 posted on 07/04/2012 8:31:46 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Springfield Reformer; Cronos
As for Luther, he did consubstantiation

No he didn't. But you are correct that transubstatiation is not the way Lutherans perceive the Real Presence in communion. Cronos, I see later you change and point that out, but you already knew better.

398 posted on 07/04/2012 1:37:07 PM PDT by xone
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