Question on the real presence in the Eucharist

[KevinK]

There is no scientific definition of a “bread” atom;

Then why did you use that concept in your reply?

 

[runningdude]

It is a metaphor for the “substance” of bread.

 

[mdcpensive1]

God through His Covenants continually reveals Himself by pointing to an ever greater appearance. In scripture, we can go all the way back to Genesis where Abraham after his victory offered ten percent to Melchisadek in thanksgiving. In Exodus, the Passover lamb must be entirely eaten or death would happen. It is funny that the Apostle John calls Jesus the Lamb of God. Again in Exodus manna from heaven is given for them to eat which is a type of bread. Abraham again is mentioned when he was told to kill his son Isaac but instead killed a lamb (Ram) for the offering to God. In Isaiah, the blood of the grape is mentioned a number of times. For Jews the bread on the altar in the temple was called the “bread of presence”. When Jesus was born it was in Bethlehem which means the “city of bread”. In the Gospels the multiplication of fish and “loaves” pointed to the coming of the Eucharist. Jesus then tells us He is the “Bread of Life”. It all works out. We are being led through the scriptures to the real presence of Jesus in His Glorified form.

 

[Roguish]

All that being said. I have recently learned that many Catholics believe in the litteral pressence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. As in the bread is physically transformed into Jesus’s flesh.

No. Catholics believe in the Real Presence. That is certainly not the same as the physical presence. The point is simply that Christ is truly there in/as the consecrated host, and that it is not just make-belief, imagination, or symbolism. But the host still has the physical properties of bread and wine obviously.

 

[ProudPapa1988]

Bishop Barron does a fair job of explaining it in biblical terms