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The Jewishness of Passover Refutes Transubstantiation

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

After this interview I was thinking about the possibility of other examples where Jesus uses a present physical object in a purely symbolic sense and I think we do have some. When Jesus spoke to the woman at the well He told her that she should ask Him for water, and while there was physical water present the real point Jesus is making is that she needs non-physical water which is representative of new life in the Holy Spirit. Jesus also manifested bread for the crowd but told them that this was food that perishes and they need food that gives everlasting life. He goes on to show that this food is belief in Jesus. Even in the favorite passage for those who promote transubstantiation (John 6) Jesus adds the clarity/commentary that the flesh profits nothing and the Spirit gives life. This is not merely saying the word "spirit" means "symbolism"; rather it is saying that "spirit" is not "flesh" and cannot be interpreted to mean "my physical body being eaten by you". A whole lot more can and should be said about all this but I hope that the above answer will be seen as offering strong support simply for the fact that the Jewish context of the Last Supper is such that we should conclude symbolic meaning in the act and not transubstantiation. This is just one question from a long interview I did for the moderators of the r/Bible subreddit. They asked their subreddit to send me a bunch of questions and I spent a lot of time preparing so that I would be able to offer the best answers I could. I'll be posting these answers as individual videos so keep an eye out for the rest in the set. I'm Mike Winger and my goal is to help you learn to think biblically about everything!

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0:00.0

So our next question comes from Carolina X Rose and they say hi Mike question

0:06.4

regarding the Lord's Supper. I was discussing Lord's Supper with a Catholic

0:09.9

friend following Easter and hadn't realized how differently reviewed it.

0:13.1

Protestants believe communion is symbolic while Catholics believe Christ is

0:16.9

physically and spiritually present in the Eucharist. My understanding is that

0:20.5

this stems from a disagreement about whether Jesus was speaking literally or

0:23.6

metaphorically at the last supper. Jesus used a lot of metaphors but his

0:27.4

comparison of bread to his body and wine to his blood was immediately followed

0:31.4

by prayer and participation in the act described in that metaphor. I know that

0:36.0

when Jesus said I'm the vine you are the branches he didn't subsequently go

0:39.5

literally prune a tree and when he said he was the light of the world he didn't

0:42.9

invite everyone into the dark room with and light a candle. So this may be

0:46.4

curious besides the Lord's Supper or any of Jesus' other metaphors immediately

0:50.5

followed by the physical representation and participation of those

0:54.4

metaphors. Thank you so much. I'm trying to think about the metaphors

0:59.6

followed by physical. I don't know if we could say there's a parallel there

1:03.9

but but let me explain a couple things that might help us answer why I don't

1:07.9

think that this is literal. That the initial Passover was not meant to be

1:16.2

understood by Jesus or the disciples as a literal transformation of the bread

1:22.2

into the body of Christ physically and the wine into the blood of Christ at

1:26.8

least the substance versus the accident if you want to borrow from Catholic

1:31.4

philosophy and understanding of metaphysics and stuff. All right here's some

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