The Catholic Verses: 95 Bible Passages That Confound Protestants by Dave Armstrong

Author:Dave Armstrong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-04-28T12:39:00+00:00

It is enough for me that Christ's blood is present; let it be with the wine as God wills. Before I would drink mere wine with the Enthusiasts, I would rather have pure blood with the Pope (early 1520s; in Althaus, 376; LW, 37, 317).

The glory of our God is precisely that for our sakes he comes down to the very depths, into human flesh, into the bread, into our mouth, our heart, our body (in Althaus, 398; LW, 37, 71 ff.).

In the Last Supper passages (Luke 22:19-20; cf. Matt. 26:26-28, Mark 14:22-24), nothing in the actual text supports a metaphorical interpretation. Elsewhere in Scripture, where the word is meant to be figurative, it is readily apparent (Matt. 13:38; John 10:7, 15:1; 1 Cor. 10:4), whereas here it is not. The Last Supper was the Jewish feast of Passover, which involved eating a sacrificial lamb. The disciples could hardly have missed the significance of what Jesus was saying. Before and after this passage, he spoke of his imminent suffering (Luke 22:15-16, 18, 21-22). John the Baptist had already referred to him as the Lamb of God (John 1:29).

Protestantism's founders vary in their interpretation of this verse and in their eucharistic theology. John Calvin's "mystical" view of the Eucharist is complex and not quickly summarized or refuted. Ulrich Zwingli (the Protestant "Reformer" of Zurich) held to a symbolic view, on the other hand, which seems to have prevailed among many Evangelical Protestants today. We shall concentrate on the exegetical and logical weakness of Zwingli's arguments in this chapter. He wrote about this passage:

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