Do you find it odd that all religious people don't believe in the "real presence"?

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Do you find it odd that all religious people don’t believe in the “real presence”??
 
Not necessarily all religious people. I do find it odd that those who take scripture seriously do not accept Jesus’ words on this.
 
Not at all, in fact I would find it odd if you ever had unanimous belief in any religious doctrine.
 
It’s indeed very sad! The moment I first believed in the Real Presence I ceased to be a Protestant.
It’s the very core of the Catholic Faith.
 
I find it odd that all the holy and devout religious people believe in the true presence.
 
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Many Catholics are ignorant of it, or treat it lightly, or are well-informed of it and deny it completely.

This is sad, though unsurprising; Jesus says in Matthew 7:13 that the gate is wide and the road to destruction is broad; Judas himself was an Apostle and yet he betrayed Christ; in 1 John 2:19 we read that even then the Church was producing antichrists, who were in the church but not of the Church; the Reformers were all baptized Catholic, but they turned on the Church.
 
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I said believe. Not don’t believe. Did I mistype something?
 
And Jesus himself said ‘When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?’ These are trying times as most people are indeed faithless.
 
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Many Catholics are ignorant of it,
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Exactly, not every Catholic is as well informed as they could be, or should be, not just about this doctrine, but with a lot of the teachings. 50 years ago, most Catholics attended the parish grade school and the parish high school for 12 years. A lot more opportunity to have knowledge rub off.

Nowadays, maybe half of all parishes have a grade school and none at all I know of, have a high school.
 
It was a question of trust, and this, as well as other teachings became an issue with many who found that “this teaching is hard; who can accept it?”. After having made the personal choice, they decided that others should have the option to choose what they could trust from our Lord, and so they formed man made churches. The final insult to Him came when they called their churches Christian Churches.
 
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Exactly, not every Catholic is as well informed as they could be, or should be, not just about this doctrine, but with a lot of the teachings
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Let’s not forget that hearing something and believing it are two very different things. A lot of people may even really want to believe, but just aren’t able to.
 
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Seriously Evangelical? This is a Catholic forum. I certainly would not find Catholicism nearly as attractive if it not were for the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Most here would say the same.

Go back and read John 6 once more very carefully but without a filtering lense that is evangelical or protestant.

It is also what the Early Church believed, from the beginning, search it out for yourself honestly and you will see.

God Bless you!
 
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I understand your question better now as I looked more at your profile.

I would not so much say disbelief is odd but is a product of the protestant reformation. It takes a great amount of Faith to believe in something that your senses tells you is otherwise.

I don’t know if I would call it odd, but it is unfortunate. All early Christians believed that it was the real presence.
 
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Not necessarily all religious people. I do find it odd that those who take scripture seriously do not accept Jesus’ words on this.
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I’ve argued the Real Presence with Sola Scripture adherents. Based on Scripture alone, some believe in the RP, while others do not. So much for Sola Scriptura.
 
I don’t find it odd that many non-Catholics do not believe in the real presence. Most have never been exposed to the concept or have been in such away that would make them us Catholic are crazy.
 
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