What saith the Scripture Tradition must give way to the clear statements of the Scripture

  DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT SUPPORT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC VIEW OF COMMUNION? By Norman L. Geisler Introduction In the first three Gospels Jesus is represented as saying “this is my body” and “this is my blood” (Mt. 26:26, 28; Mark 14:21, 24; Lk. 22:19, 21) about the bread and wine at the Lord’s Supper.  This is repeated in 1 Corinthians 15:24.  On another occasion Jesus exhorted his disciples to “eat” his “flesh” and “drink” his blood” (John 6:52-58).  Roman Catholics base their doctrine of transubstantiation on these passages, affirming that bread and wine of the Communion are literally transformed into the physical body and blood of Christ, while retaining the outward appearance and characteristics of ordinary bread and wine.  

To you, O king, as you lay in bed, came thoughts of what would be hereafter, and the revealer of mysteries disclosed to you what is to be. Da 2:29 just as you saw that a stone was cut from the mountain not by hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold.  The great God has informed the king what shall be hereafter. The dream is certain and its interpretation trustworthy.” Da 2:45. As I watched in the night visions, I saw one like a human being coming with the clouds of heaven. And he came to the Ancient One and was presented before him. To him was given dominion and glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed. Dan. 7:13–14 “Seventy sevens are determined for your people and your holy city, to end wrongdoing, and to finish with sin, and to atone f...

 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood self-condemned, for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the gentiles. But after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction. And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. Gal. 2:11–13   But if I build up again the very things that I once tore down, then I demonstrate that I am a transgressor. Gal. 2:18   What Peter has first pulled down is the wall of partition between Jews and Gentiles. With his yielding to the party of James he is now building this up again and characterizing his previous attitude as παράβασις transgression, and himself as παραβάτης transgressor, violator.  The contrast between “destroy” (καταλύω, katalyō) and “rebuild” (πάλιν οἰκοδομέω, palin oikodomeō) refers most naturally to the law: if Peter, as a Jewish Christian, should try to reinst...