Why Would Christians Know More About Religion?

Why Would Christians Know More About Religion? Jul 26, 2019 11:22:58 GMT clusium likes this

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Post by mslo79 on Jul 26, 2019 11:22:58 GMT

Jul 25, 2019 11:17:50 GMT Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh said:

Also surprising is how only 50% of Catholics understand their own religion’s belief that consecrated communion wafers are literally the body of Christ. Almost everyone else thought it was a metaphor… which would make a lot more sense, but it’s not what the religion teaches.

I would think most Catholics would know this, but have at least rejected that ludicrous teaching.

Except that teaching is the truth (it's Christ physically present in the Eucharist, it's not symbolic). but since you don't even believe in God, it's just going to be that much more difficult for a non-believer to believe.

but it seems even back in the day many left Jesus over that teaching. so it's not surprising many today reject it even though it's the truth... catholicstrength.com/tag/many-of-jesus-disciples-left-him-after-he-preached-on-the-eucharist/

but for those who doubt it's real search for 'Eucharistic Miracles' online for further evidence of this truth. sure, you won't see miracles like that much from a priest consecrating the Eucharist at Mass, but it does not matter, as the Eucharist is still the Eucharist, as it does not matter if a average priest does it or the Pope, it's exactly the same. the truth remains like it says in CCC #1374...

The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend." In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained." "This presence is called 'real' - by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be 'real' too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present.

source = www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm ; straight from Vatican's website. basically it's from The Catechism of the Catholic church which is official church teaching. in #1376 etc it talks about 'transubstantiation' which is the process that occurs when ordinary wafers transform into Christ basically.

p.s. if one still denies that the Eucharist is what it shows above, especially after looking up 'Eucharistic Miracles' online above (which defy nature/science), I think it can be summed up by my usual St. Thomas Aquinas quote... "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." ; because for some, no matter what evidence they see etc, they will simply refuse to believe. maybe some don't want to because then they would have to change the way they live etc.