Regarding transubstantiation, note that Jesus referred to the wine as the “fruit of the vine” in Matthew 26:29 after he had symbolically referred to it as “my blood of the covenant” [emphasis added].
It’s not surprising that many Christians evidently also don’t know the Constitution well enough to protect themselves from political attacks by state and federal governments.
Saul/Paul was quite a man. Luke in Acts writes about Saul and his being blinded for 3-4 days from a vision and Paul went on to do wonderful things after accepting Jesus. Paul wrote many books in the New Testament.