The documented history of Passover Seder meals also highlights the symbolic nature of the matzo and wine used therein. This context, too, calls for a symbolic meaning of the Lord’s Supper elements. There’s so much Judaiphobia in the church that it has forgotten its roots.
I wouldn’t call this “illogic.” All the signs are screaming, symbol! symbol! symbol!
At best the R.C. take is confused. At worst it’s idolatry.
“There’s so much Judaiphobia in the church that it has forgotten its roots.”
You comment is completely wrong.
1) Your comment would only make sense if none of the early Christians were Jews.
2) Luke, who was Greek and not a Jew, still gives no hint of a merely symbolic understanding of the Last Supper.
3)The tactic you’re using is intellectually dishonest. To claim that those who hold a more ancient and more orthodox view than yours must somehow be tainted by “Judaiphobia” is beyond asanine.
“I wouldn’t call this “illogic.” All the signs are screaming, symbol! symbol! symbol!”
And they are also shouting “fulfillment of Jesus’ own words in John 6” and that’s exactly how ancient Christians took them.
“At best the R.C. take is confused. At worst it’s idolatry.”
It’s neither. At best the Protestant take is intellectually dishonest. At worst it is a rejection of Christ and His very own words.