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From: cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Correction on transsubstantiation
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 13:30:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 13:30:43 1985
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>> I will leave it to a Catholic 
>> to explain why they do not practice open Communion.
.....
>From: wfi@unc.UUCP (William F. Ingogly)
>It's because of the doctrine of transubstantiation, which states that
>the consecrated bread or wine represents the body and blood of the
>living Christ, eternally giving his life for our salvation.
.....
As I understand it, transsubstantiation means that the bread and wine
ARE ACTUALLY the body and blood of Christ.  Churches that do not
subscribe to the doctrine of transsubstantiation believe that the
bread and wine REPRESENT (but are not one in substance with) the
body and blood of Christ.
I believe the reason many protestant denominations do not
subscribe to transsubstantiation is that Jesus said he would not
be on earth bodily between the time he ascended into heaven and
his second coming.  Therefore the host cannot be his body.
However, when the host representing Christ's body is partaken as
directed in the sacrament, Christ is present spiritually with the partaker
and the congregation.

Carl Blesch