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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the Catholic  belief in transubstantiation bothers me.

It's so crazy that so many otherwise thinking intelligent people could accept this - and go nuts when they hear about a consecrated host being taken from a church.

They think the living Christ has been kidnapped.[/quote]

You should carefully read the sixth chapter of the Gospel Of John.  The Bread of Life Discourse pertains to this precise belief.  Jesus was very explicit in telling his followers that his flesh was the "bread of life".  The scripture indicates this teaching was hard for many to understand and accept, so Jesus carefully repeated what he was saying.  Though I am no hermaneutics expert, those who are point out that the original Greek does NOT use metaphorical language here.  It is literal.  The text describes how some of his followers, who were apparently true believers, ultimately could not accept this teaching and they "went away".  This is the first recorded schism.  In Acts of the Apostles, the language is clear that the early church leaders, Peter mostly, were quite adamant about continuing the teaching of Jesus on this precise message.

It is a choice not to believe this.  But it makes it difficult to say you "believe in the bible" if you want to throw out pretty much an entire chapter of one of the Gospels just because the point discussed by Jesus is a difficult one for a person to accept.  [/quote]

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