How do Protestants still deny the Eucharist?

[NotWorthy]

How much do you honestly think that God honors them disobeying His Son’s commands to eat His Flesh and drink His Blood? I never said they are “cut off from Christ”. But what they are doing is just sharing a meal together - that is all. It may make them feel all good and warm and fuzzy inside, but the FACT remains that Christ is NOT there. And as a Catholic you should be aware of this and believe this. To believe something else is heretical.

They are receiving grape juice and crackers. Christ may be “in their hearts and minds” - but He is absolutely NOT present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity in their “supper”.

They lack the fullness of Truth - and part of what they lack is sacramental grace that can never be obtained from grape juice and crackers, no matter how hard someone thinks it is. I can concentrate really really hard on my car and try to turn it into a helicopter, but it’s not going to happen, no matter how much I desire it.

~Liza

Ahhhh, but you may be thinking one-dimensionally, liza.

Christ may be in there giving the person the desire to yearn for this communion. Then, when their Church loses a preacher for one reason or another, and the replacement no longer holds their attention like the previous one, this desire may build into a need to return to the One True Church.

 

[mangy_dog]

Not all Protestants deny the eucharist. Episcopalians/Anglicans and Lutherans believe in the Real Presence. In fact, Luther criticized as heretics the Reformed churches for their teaching that the bread and wine are merely symbols of the Body and Blood of Christ.

By the way, I’m aware that the Catholic Church considers the eucharist as celebrated by these groups to be invalid. That doesn’t affect their belief and teaching about the eucharist as they celebrate it, however.

Yes all protestants deny the Transubstantiation.

Episcopalians; Anglicans and Lutherans believe in consubstantiation…hence the point of protest among others.

 

[mackbrislawn]

I am not an apologetics expert, but from my experience, the doctrine of the Eucharist is one of the most clear-cut and heavily supported doctrines that the Catholic Church has. I look at all the Scriptural and historical evidence supporting it, and what little flimsy evidence against it there is, and I wonder: How can Protestants seriously still believe that the bread is not Christ’s Body?

Lack of knowledge of all the supportive evidence surely plays a large part, but there are Protestants, one of which I know, who have seen a majority of the expansive support for the Eucharist, and still do not believe. The friend to which I refer is a rather intelligent person, so surely he should be able to deduce the truth!

Let’s clear this up once and for all. Thanks and God bless.

I never have understood a reason not to believe in the real presence.

A reason some disbelievers give is that Jesus was simply speaking metaphorically, symbolically, when he said, “This is my body, this is my blood.” The problem is, it does not make sense metaphorically. For a statement to be a metaphor, it must make sense as one, convey some metaphorical meaning! But “This is my body” simply doesn’t work as metaphor–therefore, it must be literal.

Heck, if one believes in the Incarnation, the Son of God becoming flesh, why is it difficult to accept the Son of God becoming bread and wine?

My opinion is that those who deny the Eucharist as Catholics believe it, are in the flesh, that is, they are too much “natural man” as scripture calls it. The flesh, natural man, finds it hard to believe in miracles, so it disbelieves. Yes, I know, from the world’s viewpoint it is foolish to believe as Catholics do. Indeed, worldly wisdom would say that the bread and wine cannot be God. To the wise, fleshly, world it is foolishness. But, “Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?” 1Cor 1:20. And, “The foolishness of God is wiser than men.” 1Cor 1:25. “…to those who are perishing, foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1Cor 1:18.

I have to admit, I don’t see how the bread and wine are the body and blood of Christ. But, we “walk by faith and not by sight.”

 

[dnar]

You will never experience this outside the Catholic Church - beware of imitations. Only the REAL and TRUE presence of Christ is in the Eucharist on the altar of the Catholic Church.

~Liza

The Orthodox Church has valid sacraments as well. Just so you know

 

[lizaanne]

The Orthodox Church has valid sacraments as well. Just so you know

Of course they do. We are talking about Protestants in this discussion. I did not feel the need to point out the obvious.

~Liza