False. First of all, John’s gospel wasn’t even written down for half a century, and in that time they had been celebrating the Eucharist and teaching the doctrine that later came to be known as transubstantiation. This bears out in the writings of John’s successors such as his immediate successor, Ignatius of Antioch.
The interpretation you put forth of those words of Christ is an interpretation that did not exist until so long after the fact of their being spoken, that you should be scratching your head at why it took the Church so long to “finally understand” what Christ meant. The truth is simpler: the newer interpretation is bunk.
The Eucharist is truly Christ. He didn’t chase after those who left saying, “no no I mean it’s just spiritual, guys come back seriously guys” He instead turned to His disciples and said “will you leave also?” They responded, “where will we go?” Meaning they also did not understand but were willing to submit even so.
The fact that the early church wrote about the Eucharist in exactly the same terms of unchanging doctrine (and by early I mean direct successors of the Apostles) should really make you think a little deeper about the bunk theology that didn’t even exist until after Luther apostatized.
False. First of all, John’s gospel wasn’t even written down for half a century, and in that time they had been celebrating the Eucharist and teaching the doctrine that later came to be known as transubstantiation. This bears out in the writings of John’s successors such as his immediate successor, Ignatius of Antioch.
The interpretation you put forth of those words of Christ is an interpretation that did not exist until so long after the fact of their being spoken, that you should be scratching your head at why it took the Church so long to “finally understand” what Christ meant. The truth is simpler: the newer interpretation is bunk.
The Eucharist is truly Christ. He didn’t chase after those who left saying, “no no I mean it’s just spiritual, guys come back seriously guys” He instead turned to His disciples and said “will you leave also?” They responded, “where will we go?” Meaning they also did not understand but were willing to submit even so.
The fact that the early church wrote about the Eucharist in exactly the same terms of unchanging doctrine (and by early I mean direct successors of the Apostles) should really make you think a little deeper about the bunk theology that didn’t even exist until after Luther apostatized.
So, you reject that the whole Bible is divinely inspired? You pick and choose which books are authoritative to fit your doctrine? We're done.
Nope. You have to be deliberately and maliciously misconstruing what I explicitly stated to come to that conclusion. YOU are done.