No. The Spirit of Christ dwells in me. If you want to believe you are chewing a piece of literal human flesh and drinking literal human blood during Mass, that is up to you. I am content to receive the benefits of Christ’s suffering by faith, through the symbolic act of communion.
If you think you are saved by externals, that is your choice.
It is the very definition of walking "by faith and not by sight." So many of Protestant brethren refuse to see with the eyes of faith what they can not perceive in their flesh.
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No. The Spirit of Christ dwells in me. If you want to believe you are chewing a piece of literal human flesh and drinking literal human blood during Mass, that is up to you. I am content to receive the benefits of Christ’s suffering by faith, through the symbolic act of communion.
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So you deny Christ’s divinity?
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If you think you are saved by externals, that is your choice
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It’s funny that you consider a sacrament an external, and then criticise it because you simply don’t understand what is going on in front of your eyes.
Look, it’s Christ’s words, not mine or yours. If you do not eat of his flesh or drink of his blood, you do not have life in you. I don’t seen any difference between denying his presence in the Eucharist from denying his sacrifice on the cross.