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Thanks for that post. All good.

I was trying to ask this question much earlier in this thread:
* Do Protestants believe that receiving the Catholic Eucharist is an evil act?

Why not allow us think of it as a “helper” (if non-distracting from the goal), and not attack us for it.

I admit I haven’t had the time yet to read all the answers. Some apparently think we’re evil for drinking human blood, despite the plausible and literal Scripture such as John 6, and the fact they themselves don’t even believe it’s blood.

Catholiciism is not Christianity. So to your query, “* Do Protestants believe that receiving the Catholic Eucharist is an evil act?”, one can reply that the catholic mythos of eating the body, blood, soul, and spirit of Jesus in cathol;ic ritual is no more evil than any other pagan rite, just more of an insult to Jesus The Christ.

I was trying to ask this question much earlier in this thread: * Do Protestants believe that receiving the Catholic Eucharist is an evil act? Why not allow us think of it as a “helper” (if non-distracting from the goal), and not attack us for it. I admit I haven’t had the time yet to read all the answers. Some apparently think we’re evil for drinking human blood, despite the plausible and literal Scripture such as John 6, and the fact they themselves don’t even believe it’s blood.

I defend your right to think whatever you want. Where I think you will find the most push back from "Protestants" (the reason I use "Protestant" is because that is a word used by many Catholics for every Christian who isn't a Catholic. I prefer Christian or Evangelical Christian.) is when Catholics INSIST that only the Catholic Eucharist can impart salvific grace - such as on this thread. We're happy to discuss why we don't believe that and, if it comes to it, we will have to agree to disagree. There's no point in beating someone over the head with it and/or condemning them to hell because we disagree.

My point has been that what matters most is what we believe about Jesus. Disagreement over intricacies on the Eucharist goes back all the way to the start of the Christian faith and ALL will have to admit it is a mystery.

Have a blessed Sunday.

Why not allow us think of it as a “helper” (if non-distracting from the goal), and not attack us for it.

Catholics attack us for not believing in their so-called Real Presence, being what looks, tastes, feels, behaves, and would test as actual bread and wine, but which actually does not exist, but assert this is the real body and blood of Christ, until the non-existent bread or wine begins to decay.

And since they make this a matter of salvation, invoking Jn. 6:53,54 as a literal requirement, then we can not think of this as a helper, but instead it is a false gospel, leaving those who preach it accursed.

As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:9)

And Paul nor any other NT church teacher preached the Lord's supper as the means of obtaining spiritual life, nor is the Lord's supper manifest as the central main event officiated by Catholic priests offering the elements up as a sacrifice for sin, as shown , by God's grace.