Not in Scripture. Anywhere.
‘Take, all of you eat of this; which My word has made holy. Do not now regard as bread that which I have given you; but take, eat this Bread, and do not scatter the crumbs; for what I have called My Body, that it is indeed. One particle from its crumbs is able to sanctify thousands and thousands, and is sufficient to afford life to those who eat of it. Take, eat, entertaining no doubt of faith, because this is My Body, and whoever eats it in belief eats in it Fire and Spirit. But if any doubter eat of it, for him it will be only bread. And whoever eats in belief the Bread made holy in My name, if he be pure, he will be preserved in his purity; and if he be a sinner, he will be forgiven.’ But if anyone despise it or reject it or treat it with ignominy, it may be taken as certainty that he treats with ignominy the Son, who called it and actually made it to be His Body.”,
Not found anywhere in Scripture. I can only guess you are unfamiliar with Scripture, since you posted this falsehood. Even worse, he made this up in 350AD - yes, +300 years after Christ.
“After the disciples had eaten the new and holy Bread, and when they understood by faith that they had eaten of Christ’s body, Christ went on to explain and to give them the whole Sacrament. He took and mixed a cup of wine. The He blessed it, and signed it, and made it holy, declaring that it was His own Blood, which was about to be poured out….Christ commanded them to drink, and He explained to them that the cup which they were drinking was His own Blood: ‘This is truly My Blood, which is shed for all of you. Take, all of you, drink of this, because it is a new covenant in My Blood, As you have seen Me do, do you also in My memory. Whenever you are gathered together in My name in Churches everywhere, do what I have done, in memory of Me. Eat My Body, and drink My Blood, a covenant new and old.”,
Again, never appears anywhere in Scripture. Made up out of whole cloth, +300 years after Christ.As you mentioned, though, you are free to examine the Word of God in your own way.
You haven't posted the Word of God - nor shown evidence you examined it.You posted some things a guy made up 3 centuries after Christ, while ignoring Scripture.
Why?? What phobia of truth would lead a person who claims the name of Christ, to ignore God's Word and substitute things made up centuries later??
Guys/Gal,
Do you remember back when you didn’t know Christ and believed whatever the Catholic Church told you?
Do you remember when you came to know Christ and His Word opened up to your heart?
I was just remembering that moment in my own life, based on the conversation above with someone unfamiliar with the Scriptures.
“Thanks be to God, for His Indescribable Gift!”
While Ephraim used flowery language, the substance of what he wrote is in Scripture:
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. Matthew 26:26
Whatever else you may want to say about the Last Supper discourse, there is no denying that in this verse, Jesus took bread, blessed it, and said that it was His body.
Some aver that He was merely being symbolic; others say that He was instructing that, in some mysterious way beyond our understanding, He literally transforms bread into His body.
You choose to believe what you want, I believe that there is no limit to what God can do. If He says that He can transform bread into His body, I believe Him.
Peace,
Rich