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Originally Posted by awareness
That's because the claim that the bread and wine actually in reality become the essence of Christ can only be believed by abandoning all reason and rationality. It's corny as all get-out.
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It's the same mystery like baptism. Nothing happens visibly, in our material world. We don't see the Holy Spirit, light or smoke. We don't hear a thunderstorm. Nevertheless, we believe that something happens there, mysteriously and spiritually.
It may look weird for a rational mind, but we keep the Lord's commandment:
John 6:53-54
"Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day."
First Christians did the same thing. Even the apostle Paul mentioned it:
1 Corinthians 11:29-30: "For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep."
Hebrews 10:29: "How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?"