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Five Reasons I Reject the Doctrine of Transubstantiation
Reclaiming the Mind Credo House ^ | March 8, 2013 | C Michael Patton

Posted on 07/09/2015 9:33:36 AM PDT by RnMomof7

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To: Springfield Reformer
John 6:57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."

There is zero indication in the Bible that Jesus ingest The Father into His mortal body. To twist this scene at Passover time the year before the Passover (where a year later Jesus instituted the Remembrance of His Death for our sins) is to fabricate a different Gospel.

In the actual Passover before His death the next day, Jesus called the cup wine in all three Gospel accounts. He never called the wine His actual blood, in Aquinian accident or esse. He LIKENED it, this cup of wine (actually four cups for Passover, with the last poured out by Him) to the covenant He was about to seal with His blood. He did not at Passover say to drink His blood. He did say drink this cup of wine in Remembrance of His blood about to be shed for many. He also re-clarified by saying He would not again drink THE FRUIT OF THE VINE until He did so with them in His Father's Kingdom. I seriously reject any thought that Jesus will be serving a cup of His blood in Heaven for those present to drink His blood.

The ways ctholicism apologists try to get around this blatant violation of the Levitical Law in Lev 3:17 that their Eucharist abuses is almost, ALMOST, amusing. Mostly it is disgusting that such sincere people are so sincerely insulting The Jesus Christ, the Word of God.

181 posted on 07/11/2015 10:18:16 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Mad Dawg; MHGinTN; Springfield Reformer; HossB86; CynicalBear
The word “substance” as used by Scholastic Realists has little if anything to do with “physicality.”

Canon 1.If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist are contained truly, really and substantially the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ, but says that He is in it only as in a sign, or figure or force, let him be anathema.

Synonyms

Synonyms for substantially
adv to a large extent

considerably essentially extensively

heavily largely materially

really in essence in fact


in reality in substance in the main

mainly much

This is nothing but word games ..... MD...

238. Q. What is the Holy Eucharist?

A. The Holy Eucharist is the Sacrament which contains the body and blood, soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ under the appearances of bread and wine.

182 posted on 07/11/2015 10:26:28 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: MHGinTN
Why are you avoiding it?

I'll get to it as soon as I stop beating my wife.

Please treat me like a Martian who may not notice all the things you want me to notice.

183 posted on 07/11/2015 10:37:28 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
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To: Mad Dawg
>>But PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, believe me: transubstantiation is NOT about a PHYSICAL change.<<

There is physical and there is spiritual. There is nothing else.

184 posted on 07/11/2015 10:39:28 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear

Amen


185 posted on 07/11/2015 10:43:31 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7; Mad Dawg; MHGinTN; Springfield Reformer; HossB86

It’s amazing the attempts Catholics go through to explain the nonsense of “transubstantiation”. It’s apparent that at some level they realize that what the Catholic Church says is wrong.


186 posted on 07/11/2015 10:48:22 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: RnMomof7; MHGinTN
I think you don't know the language. If you want to attack the dogma, you should probably attack the dogma, and not something else. WHY don't you all read the relevant portion of the Summa? This is a waste of time. You're insisting that you know the dogma without reading its foremost expositor.

RnMomof7, did you read my development of the body of the zygote, without liver or limbs? "Why are you avoiding it?" as MHGinTN might say?

I don't mind if you disagree -- free country and all that. But, you know, I have actually spent some time on this, got good grades on more than one paper on different theories of the Eucharist all that. But you are telling me what we teach.

You may know the truth better than I, but I'll need some persuading that you know Aquinas better than I.

187 posted on 07/11/2015 10:51:48 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
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To: Mad Dawg
I would guess that since Rome stamped his book with nihil obstat that John O'Brien knows the dogma better than even you. Here's another of his gems from the same edition of his book:

“' No act is greater than the consecration of the body of Christ'. ... The power of the priest is not surpassed by that of the bishop, the archbishop,the cardinal or the pope. Indeed it is eqaul to that of Jesus Christ. For in this role the priest speaks with the voice and the authority of God Himself.” John O'brien, Faith of Millions

188 posted on 07/11/2015 10:55:55 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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The first sentence in that quote is from your Thomas; the rest is just O’Brien ... reflecting the blasphemy of ctholicism. I wonder how impressed God is with ‘good grades’ from church schools? Got wrath?


189 posted on 07/11/2015 10:59:22 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Mad Dawg; RnMomof7; MHGinTN
>>RnMomof7, did you read my development of the body of the zygote, without liver or limbs?<<

Is the zygote spiritual or physical?

190 posted on 07/11/2015 11:00:38 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: MHGinTN

Aw, Jeez.

Stay on topic.

Honestly. Are we talking about a dogma or what?


191 posted on 07/11/2015 11:03:38 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
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To: Mad Dawg
1376 The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation."[204]
192 posted on 07/11/2015 11:08:06 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: CynicalBear
Is the zygote spiritual or physical?

Bingo

193 posted on 07/11/2015 11:09:07 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: CynicalBear
Are those the only two choices?

The post referring to a zygote was written in response to a post assuming that to eat the “substance” of Christ's body implied that that some limb or organ, some part, must have been eaten.

It follows from our referring both to the zygote and the 30 year old things as a human body that the substance of the body is not what you call “physical.”

194 posted on 07/11/2015 11:09:45 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
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To: Mad Dawg; RnMomof7; MHGinTN
>>Are those the only two choices?<<

Yes, there are only two choices.

>>the substance of the body is not what you call “physical.”<<

Then what is it.

1 Corinthians 15:44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

Which do you eat? Jesus natural body or His spiritual body?

195 posted on 07/11/2015 11:17:41 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: Mad Dawg
The topic is this false assertion from Catholicism that the priest brings Christ from Heaven to sacrifice The Christ continually on the catholic altar via magical transubstantiation.

When Jesus instituted the Remembrance communion He called the liquid in the cup wait for it ... wine. He poured out the last of four cups of the Passover REMEMBRANCE wine telling those present that it, the cup of Passover wine, represents the new covenant in His blood poured out for many. [The three recorded memories of the scene are found in Matthew 26:29-30; Mark 14:22-26; Luke 22:14-23; there is also Paul's description of the event in 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 where Paul speaks of the bread and wine showing the death of Jesus, which could be problematic for those defending the catholic Eucharist, but that is grist for another mill.]

196 posted on 07/11/2015 11:24:30 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: CynicalBear

They claim to eat his DIVINITY and soul! The arrogance of heresy does not confine itself to just the body and blood, it leaps even further mocking the behavior mechanism and DIVINITY as portioned in the catholic Eucharist for sacrificial ingestion.


197 posted on 07/11/2015 11:26:53 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: cuban leaf
Everything in the OT that foreshadowed the Messiah was symbolic.

Outward religious rituals do not indicate or make a changed heart.

Matthew 15:7-20 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”

Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

But Peter said to him, “Explain the parable to us.” And he said, “Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled? But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

198 posted on 07/11/2015 11:29:38 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: impimp

Because of John 6:63 where He said that the Spirit gives life and the flesh is no help at all.


199 posted on 07/11/2015 11:30:37 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: agere_contra
His commands forbidding the eating of blood are here.

Don't eat the blood, the life is in the blood

Genesis 9:4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life , that is, its blood.

Leviticus 3:17 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”

Leviticus 7:26-27 Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”

Leviticus 17:10-14 “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.

“Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.

Leviticus 19:26 “You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.

Deuteronomy 12:16 Only you shall not eat the blood ; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

Deuteronomy 12:23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life , and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

Deuteronomy 15:23 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.

Acts 15:12-29 And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me. Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,

“‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things known from of old.’

Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood. For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers, with the following letter:

“The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Matthew 26:29 I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

Mark 14:25 Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

Luke 22:18 For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

200 posted on 07/11/2015 11:33:21 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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