geezz, where do Catholics get these ideas? not from Scripture. The bread and wine are symbolic. We are tasked with partaking whenever we meet with other Believers, as a way to remember Christ sacrifice. That’s all - we are not eating Christ, He is not “Inside” the cracker, we are not given spiritual super powers. Eating and Drinking it is a sign of communion with Him and other Believers, of rememberence. That’s all.
protestants don’t know what they are missing, too bad for you.
you must not believe Scripture then
When Christ said in John 6: “take you all and eat of it, for This is My Body” do you think it looked differently to the apostles?
If the bread that Christ broke and bless and distributed to the apostles didn’t change some way in appearance to those present - did that mean Christ was lying? or that it didn’t actually occur as He said?
He said “Do this in remembrance of Me”.
We Catholics do as He commands us in the Scripture - do you?
We do it For the Greater Glory of God
Read John 6. Jesus says he is going to give his body and blood as “food” and “drink,” to be “eaten.” He allowed a large number of people to abandon him, rather than call them back to explain that it was all “symbolic.”
geezz, where do Catholics get these ideas? not from Scripture. The bread and wine are symbolic.
And that is in scripture? I don't recall Christ saying "Take ye and eat. This is a symbol of my body . . ." But he did say "This is my body." Is. I don't see anything symbolic there. God says it IS and it IS. Either you take him at His word, or you do not. I never will understand why Protestants look for literal applications of six days in creation but then reject Christ's actual literal words. Either they do not believe that Christ is God (or maybe that God cannot do what He says) or they are taking a page from Bill Clinton and trying to argue about what "is" means. In either case, it is a rather absurd position.