Yeahhhhh,, he also said “I am the door”. You think he was a 6 panel wooden door?
a door is something to go through...doesn't have to be a physical closure at all...a doorway is merely an opening through which you can pass.
but "THIS IS MY BODY" seems to me to mean.....this is my body!!
Of course, anyone who isn't desperately trying to deny the words of Christ Himself without admitting they're calling Christ a liar by doing so sees the difference between "this is" and "I am" as used in Scripture.
“Yeahhhh, he also said ‘I am the door’. You think he was a 6 panel wooden door?”
Must we mock and be sarcastic to our fellow Christians?
Revelations 4:1 - Christ’s body became a literal door when he opened heaven.
Christians have always celebrated the literal eucharist, the flesh and blood of our Lord as he instructed. St. Justin Marty, an early bishop, writing in the famous passage from The First Apology of Justin Martyr only 55 years after the New Testament was written, writes that “so also the food that our flesh and blood assimilates for its nourishment becomes the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus by the power of his own words contained in the prayer of thanksgiving.”
The eucharistic prayer of Hippolytus was written in 215 A.D. The literal eucharist has always been part of the ancient Christian worship.
Why did it take 1,500 years to determine that this way of worship is wrwong? Luther’s opinion?