Welcome back to James Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And I think that two of the Protestants doing the most interesting things online right now are Dr. William Lane Craig and Dr. Gavin Ortland.

So I've been very interested in their recent sort of sparring over the doctrine of the Eucharist.

The biggest area of contention is Gavin's claim that Baptists actually believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

Lots of people are surprised to discover that as a Baptist, oh, as a Baptist, you really believe in

real presence. Yes, actually, real presence is the historic Baptist view. Nobody knows this.

It's amazing. Now, as for his claim that Baptists have always believed in the real presence, I'm very skeptical

of that.

I just finished an excellent book by Baptist theologians, Thomas Schreiner and Matthew Crawford

entitled The Lord's Supper, published in 2010.

And if Gavin is right, these Baptist theologians don't know their own tradition

because they clearly do not believe that in the Eucharist, we eat the physical body and drink the physical blood of Jesus.

I'm not a Baptist, and I'm not going to weigh in on that particular debate.

I'm much more interested in the question of what Scripture teaches.

And to that end, the two sides have helpfully focused on three biblical passages on the Eucharist that I don't think get enough love.

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dot com and become one today. Okay, there are three passages, as I said, that they focused on

beginning with 1 Corinthians

chapter 10.

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