Imputation > infusion Stay Protestant, my friends.

Teaching moment. Gather ‘round internet friends: I noticed Roman Catholics often cherry-pick history out of context to help bolster their narrative about the church or what people believed years ago. Let’s examine this, shall we? 1. Ignatius does use strong language about the Eucharist being the “flesh” of Christ. But look at his context. He’s writing against Docetists, a group of false teachers, who denied that Jesus had a real physical body. His emphasis is theological, NOT metaphysical. He’s saying, in effect: Christ really came in the flesh, and the Eucharist testifies to that reality. This is not at all the same thing as defining transubstantiation as the Roman Catholic Church teaches today or teaching that it literally changes in substance. 2. Justin Martyr says the food is not “common bread and drink,” but is received as Christ’s body and blood. Again, that’s “sacramental” realism, not necessarily literal transformation in the later Catholic sense. Justin also describes the Eucharist in ways that don’t match the later Mass. No altar-sacrifice language in the developed sense, no Aristotelian categories, no priestly “re-offering” for the remission of sins. You’re quite literally reading a 13th-century framework back into a 2nd-century text. Again CONTEXT MATTERS. 3. As far as I’m aware, Clement of Rome is the weakest citation here. He doesn’t clearly articulate anything like the later RC doctrine of the Eucharist being physically transformed into Christ’s body and blood. His focus is church order, humility, and obedience, not Eucharistic metaphysics. If you showed a side-by-side comparison of the theology of these people mentioned here, for starters, with the theology of the Roman Catholic Church today, very little would be similar. Enough with the historical revisionism.

This is superstitious, pagan nonsense, not Christian prayer. This is exactly how Jesus taught us NOT to pray.

Roman Catholics should stick to Roman Catholic history... they'll have a better chance of getting their facts right that way... this is worse than the biography of Luther by Eric Metaxis...

🤣🤣🤣 You don’t get it. I don’t care about arguing for my faith. I only care about sharing my faith, testifying for what I believe to be true, and inviting others to partake of the same fruits of the gospel I enjoy.

Christ NEVER established the Roman "Church."

The DNA of every Eucharistic miracle shows only X chromosome. No, Y means no earthly Father 📹 parousiamedia