By the way, this isn't a "Roman Catholic" [sic] distinctive. All non-Protestant Christians accept it. Nobody within the church even questioned it for the first 800 years of Christian history.
The distinctive use of the term "Roman" in identifying your "Roman church" preceded the Reformation and was used by her after it to refer to the one (all 24 rites) "holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church."
All non-Protestant Christians accept it. Nobody within the church even questioned it for the first 800 years of Christian history.
No they did not! The RC metaphysical contrivance of the Lord's supper is just one the distinctive Catholic teachings that are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).
I could make a list, by the grace of God, of what you can only wish that record showed NT church believed concerning this.
Yes they did...And for that they were burned at the stake, pregnant mothers were stabbed in the stomach, little kids had their arms and legs ripped off while they were alive, all to get them to confess that your religion was the one, true, religion...