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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.

...Catholics INSIST that only the Catholic Eucharist can impart salvific grace...

HMMMmmm...

"One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours."

--Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)