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According to the Catechism of
the Catholic Church, the actual body (flesh), blood, and divinity of
Jesus Christ is called down from heaven and miraculously
transubstantiated into the Eucharistic wafers. The Holy Bible, however,
is explicit concerning the return of Jesus Christ to this world.
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Para 1357 … bread
and wine which, by the power of the Holy Spirit and by the words of
Christ, have become the body and blood of Christ. Christ is thus really
and mysteriously made present.
Para 1374 … In the
most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist ‘the body and blood, together
with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore,
the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained, ‘This
presence is called 'real'…
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Hebrews 10:
10-14 ... we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and
offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat
down on the right hand of God From henceforth expecting till
his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath
perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Mathew 24:27 For as
the lightning cometh out of the east, and
shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be.
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Para 1376 … that by the consecration of
the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of
the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the
whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This
change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called
transubstantiation.
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Acts 1:9 And
when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up;
and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked
stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them
in white apparel. Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye
gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into
heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go
into heaven.
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Para
1380 It is highly fitting that Christ should have wanted to remain
present to his Church in this unique way. Since Christ was about to
take his departure from his own in his visible form, he wanted to give
us his sacramental presence…
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John
14:16-18 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you
another Comforter (the Holy Spirit), that he may abide with you for
ever Even the Spirit
of truth whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not,
neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and
shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
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According to the Bible
Jesus was offered up on the cross for the sins
of His people. After His death and resurrection, He was taken up into
the clouds and is perpetually seated at the right hand of God the
Father.
Before His departure from this world, Jesus had many conversations in
which He foretold the manner of His return. The Bible is clear that
Jesus Christ will return in the same manner that He was taken up and
that it will be just as obvious. Matthew 24:27 states, “For as the
lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” To
put it in more simplistic terms, Jesus said that He would come back in
bodily form just as when He departed, He in no way every mentions in
His Word, that He would return in the from of a piece of bread.
Before He
left, Jesus promised His followers to send the Holy Spirit to comfort
and guide them, so they would not be as orphans. God has
given us a spiritual presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy
Spirit, “… And it is the Spirit that
beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that
bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and
these three are one.” 1 John 5:6-7. “…And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with
you forever; Even the Spirit of truth, …ye know him; for he dwelleth
with you, and shall be in you,"
John 14:16-17.
It is
imperative to know Jesus Christ spiritually by faith. For the written
Word of God will bear witness to the real Messiah. And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is
Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not: For false Christs and
false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce,
if it were possible, even the elect. Mark 13:21-22. Have
you come to know Jesus spiritually, are you trusting by faith in Him
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