Today over 2 billion people believe in the teaching of transubstantiation -- that Christ's actual body and blood are present in the bread and wine offered at church on Sunday. I grew up with these beliefs as well, but what if tradition has made a great error? Either Protestantism is wrong and those who reject this teaching are rejecting a key command from Christ, or Catholicism and Orthodoxy are wrong and they have espoused a teaching with blasphemous implications and outcomes. The stakes are high on either side, so regardless of our position we must be sure and convicted of our beliefs using objective evidence and history, as well as the perfect testimony of God's word.
Tudor, This was a beautiful study. It has touched my heart. Thank you so very much. Your Bible studies are incredible. God has Blessed you. I can't thank you enough. Please know your teaching is not in vain.
Thank you for your kind words. It is for these moments that I do what I do. Most will stumble against these things but it is what it is. God brings it to who needs to hear!
Nice study! It is true that we have a hunger and thirst for truth according to the Christ we trust. The metaphor is that it is offered to us, not to be "taken." It is a free gift. It is love. We are meant to contemplate the vehicle of our salvation.
I think it takes time to break free of the habit of thinking in concrete forms, or hoping there are human institutions that hold the wisdom. We have never been more steeped in layers of gatekeepers. It may be that it really is the simple, the distressed, the outsider who is left, holding the life preserver at this point. These are traps that can, temporarily, deceive the very elect.
Tudor, This was a beautiful study. It has touched my heart. Thank you so very much. Your Bible studies are incredible. God has Blessed you. I can't thank you enough. Please know your teaching is not in vain.
Kind Regards, Shelie R.
Thank you for your kind words. It is for these moments that I do what I do. Most will stumble against these things but it is what it is. God brings it to who needs to hear!
Nice study! It is true that we have a hunger and thirst for truth according to the Christ we trust. The metaphor is that it is offered to us, not to be "taken." It is a free gift. It is love. We are meant to contemplate the vehicle of our salvation.
If only more of those 2 billion would wake up and realize the same!
I think it takes time to break free of the habit of thinking in concrete forms, or hoping there are human institutions that hold the wisdom. We have never been more steeped in layers of gatekeepers. It may be that it really is the simple, the distressed, the outsider who is left, holding the life preserver at this point. These are traps that can, temporarily, deceive the very elect.