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!
Jesus, as resurrected, now has a resurrected body and as God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent - that is now in His resurrected body as God. To deny that is to deny that He is God and fall into ancient heresies. We are yet to see Him in His resurrected form. Though we will have a body like His in the new creation we will not be God - and therefore we will not be omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, just as the angels are not any of these.
A literal understanding of the “cup” is as the sign of the new covenant. A literalistic reading would take the cup as the real thing that we must hard
Lutherans are distinguished from RCs because they reject transubstantiaton. Luther held to the words of Scripture not to Catholicism. They believe in the real presence of the body and blood of Christ according to Jesus’ own words. Pick the fight with Jesus and His words to be consistent. The partaking of the Lord’s Supper will be fulfilled when we partake in the final wedding feast of the Bride and the Lamb.
Have fun deleting more sound teaching.
Liturgy is God’s Work, not ours. People can twist words. Just as evangelism is the call to worship, worship is the call of evangelism. Both are the work of God.
Not all Lutherans accept the joint agreement with Roman Catholics. Not all churches in one denomination agree with each other. I don’t recommend following one person or agreeing with everything in one denomination, but I do agree with humility and teaching the truth in love not from a posture of knowing better than everyone else. So, I was taught to read the Bible and think for myself, and listen to the best expositors and reformers. Pray for the one Body of Christ (John 17; 1 Cor 12; Eph 6) in humility.
Get out of the world system, do not start your own church which is to start your own denomination. Do not be part of a group that cannot say what it believes. Learn what Scriptures says such as what it means for us to be partakers of Jesus’ gifts that can only be received by faith.
One man stood against the world. That man was the God-man, Jesus. Others learned to stand with him, His apostles. Among them was the Apostle St Paul. Others stood against him and the apostles to lead a church astray. That man was St Paul. St Paul had the courage to correct the other apostles. Soon others followed and all started their own churches (read 1 & 2 Corinthians). The story goes on. No one can be non-denominational, that is have no denominator or believe nothing. It is easy to boil faith down to first things. If you read the doctrinal statements of Presbyterian, Anglican, Lutharism, they attempt to begin with doctirnes of first importance: for example - God, sin, Jesus, Justification, the Ministry, Sanctification/Discipleship/ the Church, Baptism, the Lord’s Supper
It is not easy to build up the Church of which there I only ONE true Church (! Corinthians 12; Eph 6), but it is easy to tear it apart (! Corinthians 1-3).
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!
Jesus, as resurrected, now has a resurrected body and as God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent - that is now in His resurrected body as God. To deny that is to deny that He is God and fall into ancient heresies. We are yet to see Him in His resurrected form. Though we will have a body like His in the new creation we will not be God - and therefore we will not be omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, just as the angels are not any of these.
A literal understanding of the “cup” is as the sign of the new covenant. A literalistic reading would take the cup as the real thing that we must hard
Lutherans are distinguished from RCs because they reject transubstantiaton. Luther held to the words of Scripture not to Catholicism. They believe in the real presence of the body and blood of Christ according to Jesus’ own words. Pick the fight with Jesus and His words to be consistent. The partaking of the Lord’s Supper will be fulfilled when we partake in the final wedding feast of the Bride and the Lamb.
Have fun deleting more sound teaching.
Liturgy is God’s Work, not ours. People can twist words. Just as evangelism is the call to worship, worship is the call of evangelism. Both are the work of God.
Not all Lutherans accept the joint agreement with Roman Catholics. Not all churches in one denomination agree with each other. I don’t recommend following one person or agreeing with everything in one denomination, but I do agree with humility and teaching the truth in love not from a posture of knowing better than everyone else. So, I was taught to read the Bible and think for myself, and listen to the best expositors and reformers. Pray for the one Body of Christ (John 17; 1 Cor 12; Eph 6) in humility.
Get out of the world system, do not start your own church which is to start your own denomination. Do not be part of a group that cannot say what it believes. Learn what Scriptures says such as what it means for us to be partakers of Jesus’ gifts that can only be received by faith.
One man stood against the world. That man was the God-man, Jesus. Others learned to stand with him, His apostles. Among them was the Apostle St Paul. Others stood against him and the apostles to lead a church astray. That man was St Paul. St Paul had the courage to correct the other apostles. Soon others followed and all started their own churches (read 1 & 2 Corinthians). The story goes on. No one can be non-denominational, that is have no denominator or believe nothing. It is easy to boil faith down to first things. If you read the doctrinal statements of Presbyterian, Anglican, Lutharism, they attempt to begin with doctirnes of first importance: for example - God, sin, Jesus, Justification, the Ministry, Sanctification/Discipleship/ the Church, Baptism, the Lord’s Supper
It is not easy to build up the Church of which there I only ONE true Church (! Corinthians 12; Eph 6), but it is easy to tear it apart (! Corinthians 1-3).
If only more of those 2 billion would wake up and realize the same!