“Now: What must the cup and the bread be to make possible this participation in the blood and body of Christ? The most obvious and logical answer is that the bread and cup of wine must really be the body and blood of Christ.”
This is the most ludicrous bilge I’ve seen written — it is so rife with illogic it isn’t even funny. ‘The most obvious and logical answer....’ is neither....
“Participate” does not equal your magical “real presence” in the bread and wine. I participate in government; that doesn’t make me governor... Football players “participate” in playing football; that doesn’t make them footballs. We participate in Christ’s body and blood in that we are saved by his shed blood, death and resurrection which we *commemorate* by the Lords’ Supper.
Once again, words are twisted, stretched and garbled in vain attempt to prove the unprovable.
And the two things your statement are not, and could never be are ‘obvious’ and ‘logical.’
Hoss
if you are correct, we must be able to find in history groups of Christians in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd centuries that believe what you believe, right? if so, who believed this?