It is impossible for me to believe any man, certainly no mortal, regardless of how many hands have been laid upon his head since Peter, has the power to turn bread and wine into the literal Body and Blood of Jesus The Christ.
Dear Catholic brothers and Sisters, there is no cause to argue this point. Christ reveals Himself in many different ways. How we worship, and why we believe is not as important as the actual worshiping and believing.
Christ commands that Christians love one another as we love Him.
He will sort it all out and judge.
Hope to see you in Heaven, if this sinful soul ever arrives.
My kindest regards and affection to you all.
**It is impossible for me to believe any man**
Did you forget that Jesus Christ is true man and true God?
Fully man and fully God?
You will be there, Kitten, if you are born again and filled with the Holy Spirit.
“It is impossible for me to believe any man, certainly no mortal, regardless of how many hands have been laid upon his head since Peter, has the power to turn bread and wine into the literal Body and Blood of Jesus The Christ.”
The power is God’s; the priest is merely His instrument—as with all miracles delivered through an agent of God.
I agree:
God loves to use figures of speech, types and shadows, etc. Taking the Bible “literally” - as we read it today in English, which is a language totally different than the very creative and expressive Hebrew or the very technically strident Greek, is to be lost in details of pharisaical self righteousness.
I take the Bible VERY seriously. It is not just a book of stories or allegories, but God uses many many hundreds of figures of speech.