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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re: Transubstantiation--This is clearly Biblical and any view that the sacrifice is symbolic is not.

The words of Christ are plain:  "This is my body." This is my blood." "Unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you do not have life in you." "My flesh is real food, my blood is real drink."

Christ did not say:  "This symbolizes my body, this represents my blood."

I always have found it puzzling that Protestants like the PP who consistently prefer a literal reading of the Bible find do not do so for these particular words of Christ. [/quote]
Christ didn't say, "This symbolizes my body, this represents my blood," because it would have been apparent to the disciples at the Last Supper that he wasn't saying the bread and wine were literally his body and blood. They were celebrating Passover. He was telling his disciples that the bread and wine they had always partaken of when they celebrated Passover was a foreshadowing of his coming in the flesh and pouring out his blood on the cross. He was saying that this is why they had always celebrated Passover. It was a confirmation that He was the Messiah who had been foretold long before. Otherwise, he would have had to cut off chunks of his body and drain his blood into a cup for them to drink, which he clearly did not. If it was clearly symbolic then, why wouldn't it be now? And there's another massive problem with this teaching, and that is that Christ was crucified once for the sins of all mankind, and that He rose again BODILY and ascended to Heaven. He remains in Heaven until His Second Coming. He does not come back over and over and over and over again in the form of pieces of His body. He is a forever risen savior bodily and did not remain in the grave. If the Catholic teaching on transubstantiation were true, you would be crucifying Christ every time you partook of it. And that is something the Bible teaches against.[/quote]

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