Why do some protestants not believe in the Body and Blood of Christ?

[mirandajb]

I have a question for my protestant brothers and sisters.
Do your communion wafers ever bleed in the Protestant churches; have you ever heard of this happening in a protestant church?
I am not saying that this is a proof, or if it is a sign from God or anything like that, I am just curious if this is just a Catholic phenomenon, or if it also happens in churches that believe the bread is only a symbol?
I have never seen it, but I had a priest at my parish that said that when he was in seminary, it happened to one of his fellow Eucharistic ministers, he did see it and said that it did appear to be blood and I have no reason to doubt him.

Here is a web site about Eucharist miracles in case you have not heard of any of this.
Eucharist Miracles

The Protestants have no evidence of any such Eucharistic miracle simply because they do not believe in the Real Presence. Since there is no faith, surely no miracle will follow (Mat13:58 - And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.)

 

[exiled]

The Protestants have no evidence of any such Eucharistic miracle simply because they do not believe in the Real Presence. Since there is no faith, surely no miracle will follow (Mat13:58 - And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.)

Didn’t those miracles primarily occur to those who were doubting?

 

[rr1213]

The Protestants have no evidence of any such Eucharistic miracle simply because they do not believe in the Real Presence. Since there is no faith, surely no miracle will follow (Mat13:58 - And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.)

Sure. Right. You got it.

 

[happygal]

Not all protestants don’t believe the real presence.

 

[runandsew]

The Protestants have no evidence of any such Eucharistic miracle simply because they do not believe in the Real Presence. Since there is no faith, surely no miracle will follow (Mat13:58 - And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.)

But what about the healing of the Centurion’s daughter, it was the fathers faith not the daughters that healed her, and what about the paralytic that is dropped through the roof of Peter, where it was the faith of the friends that Jesus healed the Paralytic.

I know what you are talking about in regards to that passage, but I think that sometimes God does miracles for unbelievers so that they will come to faith.

At Fatima, there were several atheist newspaper reports were there to show the whole thing a fake, who came to belief when the saw the sun spin in the sky.

 

[Cat]

My husband pointed out something interesting from the Bible.

Yes, Jesus often spoke figuratively: “I am the Door, I am the Light of the World, I am the Good Shepherd, I am the Bread of Life.”

But–

He never pointed to a door and said, “This door is Me.”

He never pointed to the sun, moon, stars, or a candle, and said, “This light is Me.”

He never pointed to a shepherd and said, “That shepherd is Me.”

But He DID take up bread and say, “This bread IS my Body,” and He took up wine and said, “This wine IS my Blood.”

Big difference. Meaningful difference.

This was an eye-opener for my husband, the Biblical “proof” that Christ is truly present in the Bread and Wine.

 

[mirandajb]

But what about the healing of the Centurion’s daughter, it was the fathers faith not the daughters that healed her, and what about the paralytic that is dropped through the roof of Peter, where it was the faith of the friends that Jesus healed the Paralytic.

I know what you are talking about in regards to that passage, but I think that sometimes God does miracles for unbelievers so that they will come to faith.

At Fatima, there were several atheist newspaper reports were there to show the whole thing a fake, who came to belief when the saw the sun spin in the sky.

Sure, but here we are talking, in this Thread, about believers i.e. Christians and as a result of the Protestants’ disbelief, God cannot move - as was the case in His own hometown - a Prophet is not recognised in his own home - how sad.

 

[paradoxy]

Looks like and taste like bread and wine.

There are numerous witnesses over the centuries who have been priviledged to taste the specimen in their REAL form. Even the totally unworthy sin soaking, wretch like myself included…

Sixtus, can you please clarify what you mean by that? It sure sounds interesting

Thank you.

 

[mirandajb]

Didn’t those miracles primarily occur to those who were doubting?

God works mighty miracles to ‘Non Christians’ (yet some are believers as in the case of the Centurion who was a Roman too) and they accept Him in return. In Mat13:53-58 however, Jesus is in his own country - village if you like - and they look at Him as if He was an ordinary person - not the Messiah or the Christ and He could not work any miracles for lack of faith in the people of Nazareth. Similarly the Protestants look at the Eucharist as if it is ordinary bread…because for them it is merely symbolic and not the Real Presence - therefore there is no recorded miracle for them of the Eucharist becoming Real Flesh and Real Blood. What is really fascinating is that on all lab tests done - the miraculously transformed Blood - is of AB Group - a type of Blood Group that can accept blood from anyone - Universal as Christ really is - He can accept anyone!!! Wow!!!