[boatbums]

Well, they were all there, physically at the last supper , sitting around a physical table...there was bread and wine there...and JESUS PROCLAIMED ...TAKE AND EAT OF THIS....THIS IS MY BODY.... what the heck more do you want Him to do?????...you were Catholic educated and are trying your very best to justify your very questionable decision to leave Christ's church....you cannot POSSIBLY deny the truth.....can't be dome.

Well, yes they WERE all there physically in that room with the pre-crucified, pre-resurrected, pre-glorified Jesus Christ. That's why when he held up the bread and broke it he said it represented (because they saw he was holding real bread and not a hunk of his flesh) his body which WOULD BE broken for them the very next day. The same with the cup of wine representing his precious blood WHICH WOULD BE shed for them and all the world as payment for sin that very next day.

They understood perfectly what he was teaching them and is why this same reenactment is done in Christian churches throughout the world as a REMEMBRANCE of Him - as he said it should be. Nobody even thought about philosophical arguments concerning substance and accidents and transubstance until many centuries later. If it was good enough for the Apostles back then, it should be good enough for us today. Why deny that???

[Elsie]

Why deny that???

Because Rome says...!

[MHGinTN]

That is one of the finest explanations I've ever seen for the origins of Communion. Perhaps I should thank terycarl for asking/stating such an inanity that it took your succinct and truth-filled explanation so plainly exposited to eradicate the error-filled terycarl assertion!

God bless you for your witness.

[MHGinTN]

I just re=read your excellent post. It still regales my soul as one of the finest and most succinct explanations I’ve seen.

[terycarl]

They understood perfectly what he was teaching them and is why this same reenactment is done in Christian churches throughout the world as a REMEMBRANCE of Him - as he said it should be. Nobody even thought about philosophical arguments concerning substance and accidents and transubstance until many centuries later. If it was good enough for the Apostles back then, it should be good enough for us today. Why deny that??? m

So, then, for the next 1,600 years they misinterpreted what He said until the revolution set them straight??????????please.