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What good is a temporal justification? What does that get you? I don't believe in a secret knowledge given to certain people. That's Gnosticism.

Of the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity (love), St. Paul tells us the greatest is charity (love). (cf. 1 Cor 13:13). In EVERY last judgement account referenced in the New Testament, man is judged by how much he has loved. The most explicit account, which you and the other...

To further demonstrate how sadistic the God of Calvinism is, the progenitor taught that God will actually deceive people into thinking they are elect, illumining their minds into thinking they are saved, only to pull the rug out from under them at the end... “Nor do I even deny that God...

Thankfully we have the example of Cornelius to refute this Calvinist concept.

You clearly missed my point about Zwingli and his spiritual progeny.

Constantine became emperor in the year 306 A.D. If there was no Catholic Church before him, what Church were these men pope of? St. Peter (32-67) St. Linus (67-76) St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88) St. Clement I (88-97) St. Evaristus (97-105) St. Alexander I (105-115) St. Sixtus I (115-125) --...

The liturgy preceded the Scriptures. We know this because the Apostles were offering the Eucharist before many of the New Testament books books of the Bible were even written, let alone compiled. For example, St. Luke describes... Acts 2:46: "...they continued, daily, to be of one accord in...

If only today's Reformed adherents knew what their progenitor taught, they might be in for quite the surprise as Calvin actually taught a proper understanding of the Lord's Supper was a "requisite for our salvation." Many today don't even believe communion it is necessary, let alone a proper...

Christianity isn't in any way related to Mithraism. Post the name and work of the RCC "scholar" who you referenced. So little is known about the cult that I would be surprised to see a RCC scholar arguing against second century primary source evidence. Mithras was the ancient Persian god of...

I have no idea if you are saved and neither do you. (Unless you think you have usurped Christ’s rightful judgement of all men.) You clearly are an unbeliever in the Eucharist.

The RCC “scholar” you speak of is clearly in error. Here is St. Justin Martyr, writing in about 155 A.D., describing to the Roman Emperor Antoninus how the pagans were copying the Christian Eucharist. "For the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called Gospels, have thus...

Jesus doubles down and affirms he is speaking literally. "Truly, truly..."

Exactly. It was a response to the unbelievers, who like you, ask "This is intolerable language. Who can accept it?" (John 6:60) This is thinking with the flesh, that is, merely human reasoning / their senses. It requires not human flesh to understand, but rather faith. Again, it's like...

Save for the fact that Jesus doubles down and says, "TRULY, TRULY I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true...

The "flesh profits nothing" refers to those rejecting Jesus' teaching because they were using their human reasoning, their senses, instead of faith. It's like people today saying what Jesus did was institute a symbol. That is the flesh speaking. Here's an early Doctor of the Church...

We do not dismiss "fleshy things" in Christianity because God became man IN THE FLESH. It was by this flesh which He redeemed the world. I find it odd that you would think his flesh could somehow be separated from Him. The Son of God entered into His creation in the city named the House of...

By mystery we do not mean secret. Rather, in Christianity, mystery refers to participation in divine grace. Everything which is and of the Church's sacraments are referred to as mystery. Their purpose is to sanctify. Additionally, 1 Cor 11:22 dispels the concept that the Eucharist is simply...

Transubstantiation is merely the use of metaphysics to rationally explain the mystery of the Eucharist. Much like the explanation of gravity did not create gravity, it merely explained what we already experienced. Like the example of St. Paul, arguably the first Christian philosopher...