“Nevertheless, given the choices you presented, I would take any of them over transubstatiation, which has no grounding in Scripture or reason, but tends rather to encourage idolatry.”
It is, nevertheless, quite true, as you could find out for yourself—albeit only with great effort.
Oh, and there is scriptural grounding for it; please spare me whatever mental contortions you go through to deny that.
LOL! So just grovel and accept the fallible dictates of an anonymous poster? Like Any Griffith used to say, “you’re somethin’ else, you know that?” But no, I have looked at it very closely. Transubstantiation is sophistry on steroids, a late development unheard of in the apostolic age. No physical miracle of God was ever beyond sensory verification. What would be the point? But no, rather than acquiesce to the blaziingly clear use of metaphor in John 6 to describe faith in the crucified Christ, instead transubstantiation prepares the mind to live in a state of perpetual deception. This is antithetical to God’s own holy nature, Who cannot lie, and does not EVER invite us to believe a lie, not even in the name of faith.