Aaronaeus
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You think Gentile converts “paganized” Christianity, but the Eucharist predates them. Ignatius called it the flesh of Christ in 107 AD, long before Constantine, Rome, or Christmas trees. Pagans didn’t invent the Eucharist. They imitated it because truth always echoes louder.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
You think Gentile converts “paganized” Christianity, but the Eucharist predates them. Ignatius called it the flesh of Christ in 107 AD, long before Constantine, Rome, or Christmas trees. Pagans didn’t invent the Eucharist. They imitated it because truth always echoes louder.
You keep saying Christ changes us, not the bread. But He changes us through the bread because it’s truly Him. “He who eats My flesh abides in Me.” You can’t abide in an idea. You abide in a living Person who gives Himself as food to make you part of His Body.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
You keep saying Christ changes us, not the bread. But He changes us through the bread because it’s truly Him. “He who eats My flesh abides in Me.” You can’t abide in an idea. You abide in a living Person who gives Himself as food to make you part of His Body.
Paul warned, “Whoever eats and drinks unworthily is guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord” (1 Cor 11:27). You can’t be guilty of murder against a metaphor. That only makes sense if the Eucharist is truly the Body and Blood of Christ. Symbols don’t bring judgment.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Paul warned, “Whoever eats and drinks unworthily is guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord” (1 Cor 11:27). You can’t be guilty of murder against a metaphor. That only makes sense if the Eucharist is truly the Body and Blood of Christ. Symbols don’t bring judgment.
You say it was “still wine” after He blessed it. Yes, to taste, texture, and chemistry, but not in substance. The same way the Word became flesh without ceasing to look human. Faith sees what reason can’t. Sight saw wine. Faith saw the Blood of the covenant.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
You say it was “still wine” after He blessed it. Yes, to taste, texture, and chemistry, but not in substance. The same way the Word became flesh without ceasing to look human. Faith sees what reason can’t. Sight saw wine. Faith saw the Blood of the covenant.
No Catholic thinks Jesus chewed on Himself. His glorified Body transcends time and space. He can be truly present under sacramental signs without being physically chewed like a steak. That’s not cannibalism, it’s communion with the living God who makes Himself our food.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
No Catholic thinks Jesus chewed on Himself. His glorified Body transcends time and space. He can be truly present under sacramental signs without being physically chewed like a steak. That’s not cannibalism, it’s communion with the living God who makes Himself our food.
If Jesus wanted symbolism, He could’ve said, “This represents My Body.” Instead, He said, “This is My Body.” When His followers left in John 6, He didn’t chase them yelling “Wait, it’s a parable!” He let them go because He meant it literally. They got it. You don’t.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If Jesus wanted symbolism, He could’ve said, “This represents My Body.” Instead, He said, “This is My Body.” When His followers left in John 6, He didn’t chase them yelling “Wait, it’s a parable!” He let them go because He meant it literally. They got it. You don’t.
You say Jews spoke in metaphors, but their faith was built on real actions with real power. The Passover lamb was symbolic, yes, but you still had to eat it. God’s covenants always involve physical signs that communicate grace, not empty gestures or poetic symbolism.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
You say Jews spoke in metaphors, but their faith was built on real actions with real power. The Passover lamb was symbolic, yes, but you still had to eat it. God’s covenants always involve physical signs that communicate grace, not empty gestures or poetic symbolism.
Transubstantiation isn’t a chemical shift, it’s a substantial change. What it is becomes Christ, what it appears as remains bread and wine. Just like the burning bush, it stayed a bush, yet God was fully present. The miracle wasn’t visible fire, it was divine presence.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Transubstantiation isn’t a chemical shift, it’s a substantial change. What it is becomes Christ, what it appears as remains bread and wine. Just like the burning bush, it stayed a bush, yet God was fully present. The miracle wasn’t visible fire, it was divine presence.
If God’s power stops at the atomic level, He’s not God, He’s a chemistry teacher. Miracles aren’t bound by molecules. Jesus walked on water, multiplied loaves, and rose from the dead. But sure, the molecular stability of bread is where omnipotence calls it quits.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If God’s power stops at the atomic level, He’s not God, He’s a chemistry teacher. Miracles aren’t bound by molecules. Jesus walked on water, multiplied loaves, and rose from the dead. But sure, the molecular stability of bread is where omnipotence calls it quits.
You keep talking chemistry like God is bound by a lab manual. The Eucharist isn’t about molecular rearrangement. It’s about divine authority. The same God who said “Let there be light” doesn’t need your MSDS sheet to say “This is My Body” and make it happen.
October 24, 2025 at 2:01 AM
You keep talking chemistry like God is bound by a lab manual. The Eucharist isn’t about molecular rearrangement. It’s about divine authority. The same God who said “Let there be light” doesn’t need your MSDS sheet to say “This is My Body” and make it happen.
It’s not bread or wine that change instead of us, we’re changed through them. Grace flows from His Real Presence. “He who eats My flesh abides in Me” (John 6:56). You can’t abide in a symbol. The early Church didn’t worship symbols, they worshiped the God truly present.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
It’s not bread or wine that change instead of us, we’re changed through them. Grace flows from His Real Presence. “He who eats My flesh abides in Me” (John 6:56). You can’t abide in a symbol. The early Church didn’t worship symbols, they worshiped the God truly present.
The focus isn’t off the Cross, it’s through the Eucharist that we touch the Cross. Jesus said, “Do this in memory of Me,” not “Think about Me symbolically.” The Eucharist doesn’t replace His sacrifice; it lets us enter it. The symbols change nothing, but Christ truly does.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The focus isn’t off the Cross, it’s through the Eucharist that we touch the Cross. Jesus said, “Do this in memory of Me,” not “Think about Me symbolically.” The Eucharist doesn’t replace His sacrifice; it lets us enter it. The symbols change nothing, but Christ truly does.
Nicaea didn’t invent the Eucharist. The term “transubstantiation” was defined later to clarify what the Church had always believed: the substance changes, not the taste or appearance. Doctrine wasn’t created, it was defended, just like “Trinity” centuries earlier
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Nicaea didn’t invent the Eucharist. The term “transubstantiation” was defined later to clarify what the Church had always believed: the substance changes, not the taste or appearance. Doctrine wasn’t created, it was defended, just like “Trinity” centuries earlier
Calling the Eucharist “magic” misunderstands divine power. It’s not human conjuring, it’s God’s creative word. The same “Let there be light” now says “This is My Body.” If God can make galaxies from nothing, He can make Himself present under bread and wine while they appear unchanged.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Calling the Eucharist “magic” misunderstands divine power. It’s not human conjuring, it’s God’s creative word. The same “Let there be light” now says “This is My Body.” If God can make galaxies from nothing, He can make Himself present under bread and wine while they appear unchanged.
Christ’s sacrifice is “once for all” (Heb 10:10), but the Eucharist isn’t a new crucifixion, it’s the one sacrifice made present through time. Just as Israel’s Passover re-presented their deliverance yearly, the Mass brings Calvary into every generation without repeating
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Christ’s sacrifice is “once for all” (Heb 10:10), but the Eucharist isn’t a new crucifixion, it’s the one sacrifice made present through time. Just as Israel’s Passover re-presented their deliverance yearly, the Mass brings Calvary into every generation without repeating
No Christian for 1,500 years taught “symbol only.” From Ignatius to Augustine, all affirmed Christ’s Real Presence. Justin Martyr (155 AD): “We do not receive this as common bread, but as Jesus Christ’s flesh and blood.” That’s history, not a medieval invention.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
No Christian for 1,500 years taught “symbol only.” From Ignatius to Augustine, all affirmed Christ’s Real Presence. Justin Martyr (155 AD): “We do not receive this as common bread, but as Jesus Christ’s flesh and blood.” That’s history, not a medieval invention.
Jesus said, “My flesh is true food and My blood is true drink” (John 6:55). In Greek, “alēthēs” means real, genuine, not figurative. Many walked away because He didn’t soften it. He didn’t chase them saying, “Wait, it’s only symbolic!” He doubled down: “Eat My flesh.”
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Jesus said, “My flesh is true food and My blood is true drink” (John 6:55). In Greek, “alēthēs” means real, genuine, not figurative. Many walked away because He didn’t soften it. He didn’t chase them saying, “Wait, it’s only symbolic!” He doubled down: “Eat My flesh.”
The Hebrews never thought the lamb was God, no one says that. The lamb was the means by which they participated in God’s saving act. In the same way, the Eucharist isn’t another sacrifice, but our participation in the one eternal sacrifice of the true Lamb, Jesus Christ.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The Hebrews never thought the lamb was God, no one says that. The lamb was the means by which they participated in God’s saving act. In the same way, the Eucharist isn’t another sacrifice, but our participation in the one eternal sacrifice of the true Lamb, Jesus Christ.
In Exodus 12, the lamb wasn’t symbolic, they had to eat it. If Jesus is the true Passover Lamb (1 Cor 5:7), then the New Covenant meal likewise requires us to partake. The Cross is the sacrifice; the Eucharist is its participation. You can’t separate the meal from the Lamb.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
In Exodus 12, the lamb wasn’t symbolic, they had to eat it. If Jesus is the true Passover Lamb (1 Cor 5:7), then the New Covenant meal likewise requires us to partake. The Cross is the sacrifice; the Eucharist is its participation. You can’t separate the meal from the Lamb.
Calling the Eucharist “pagan” confuses imitation with origin. Pagans mimicked sacred meals because Christianity spread fast. God often transforms pagan imagery: incense, temples, altars, even sacrifice. He doesn’t reject what’s pagan, He redeems and fulfills it in Himself.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Calling the Eucharist “pagan” confuses imitation with origin. Pagans mimicked sacred meals because Christianity spread fast. God often transforms pagan imagery: incense, temples, altars, even sacrifice. He doesn’t reject what’s pagan, He redeems and fulfills it in Himself.
Ignatius of Antioch, a disciple of John, wrote that heretics “abstain from the Eucharist because they do not confess it to be the flesh of our Savior.” That’s 1st century. The Gnostics denied the Real Presence, not the apostles. Symbol-only theology began in the 1500s, not 30 AD.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Ignatius of Antioch, a disciple of John, wrote that heretics “abstain from the Eucharist because they do not confess it to be the flesh of our Savior.” That’s 1st century. The Gnostics denied the Real Presence, not the apostles. Symbol-only theology began in the 1500s, not 30 AD.
“Eucharist” literally comes from eucharisteō, the Greek verb meaning “to give thanks” used by Jesus at the Last Supper (Luke 22:19). The earliest Christians didn’t invent the word; they used Christ’s own term. Ignatius, 107 AD, already called the meal “the Eucharist, the flesh of Christ.”
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“Eucharist” literally comes from eucharisteō, the Greek verb meaning “to give thanks” used by Jesus at the Last Supper (Luke 22:19). The earliest Christians didn’t invent the word; they used Christ’s own term. Ignatius, 107 AD, already called the meal “the Eucharist, the flesh of Christ.”
Faith doesn’t mean full comprehension. We “walk by faith, not by sight.” The miracle isn’t biology, it’s grace: Christ giving Himself wholly to us so that His life becomes ours (John 6:51–58).
October 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Faith doesn’t mean full comprehension. We “walk by faith, not by sight.” The miracle isn’t biology, it’s grace: Christ giving Himself wholly to us so that His life becomes ours (John 6:51–58).