A Real and Significant Biblical Contradiction?

[spockrates]

spockrates Wrote: I was threatened with being banned from catholic.com after asking, "Is God a loaf of bread?"

Quiet right too,ignorant heathen.


Any Catholic will tell you he is a small, white circular wafer of unleavened bread. (the last supper was at Passover,hence the unleavened bread) Of course he may also be a loaf of Wonder Bread or a MacDonald's sesame seed bun if there is nothing else.

This miraculous transformation takes place at each and every mass,which is a literal re enactment of the Last Supper. The process is called 'transubstantiation'

In Roman Catholic theology, transubstantiation (in Latin, transsubstantiatio, in Greek μετουσίωσις metousiosis) is the doctrine that, in the Eucharist, the substance of wheat bread and grape wine changes into the substance of the Body and the Blood of Jesus,[1] while all that is accessible to the senses (the appearances - species in Latin) remains as before.[2][3][4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation

The Catholics on that forum probably thought you were a troll. It would not occur to them that non Catholics tend to have little if any interest in the sophistry of Catholic theology.

Troll--yeah, I get a lot of that! Funny, every time I look in the mirror expecting to see pointy ears and fangs, all I see is me. I don't even like gruff billy goat meat!



Actually, they explained that the bread is not Jesus, but Jesus is the bread. That is, it looks like bread and smells like bread and tastes like bread, but it is really the body, soul and divinity of Christ. The discussion that this started lasted well over 1,000 posts with me asking simple questions and several of them answering. Turns out they believe the atoms of the bread are the accidents, but not the real essence of the bread. Jesus, they say, is the essence of what the Eucharist is. I found it all fascinating.