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When Christ instituted the Eucharist in the Upper Room, He gave the Apostles communion under both species (bread and wine). Every bishop and priest, when offering the Eucharist, is required to communicate under both species. So the men to whom Christ instituted the Eucharist, and their...

Indeed. I've always wondered what exactly are they memorializing in their mock eucharist service? By their own admission, nothing was even offered so as to be commemorated until the next day.

Exactly! And if you continue past verse 48, Jesus explicitly states He is the bread which cometh down from heave and this bread he gives is his very flesh! John 6:51: "I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I...

What does Jesus explicitly call the bread of life? John 6:49-56: I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven...

The Orthodox Church most assuredly has valid orders because they have valid Apostolic succession. And no, not every believer automatically has Apostolic succession. One has to receive it validly. Here is Scripture demonstrating it in practice: Acts 6:6 Acts 13:3 Acts 14:23 1 Tim 4:14 1...

Incorrect. In fact the New Testament Scriptures actually calls one sacrament explicitly a sacrament. It calls the Eucharist the New Testament (or New Covenant): Matthew 26:26-28 Mark 14:22-24 Luke 22:19-20 1 Corinthians 11:23-25 (Paul quoting Jesus) Hence the books read during the...

Brilliant rebuttal. You convinced me historical Christianity is wrong and you are right.

The New Testament documents cannot administer the Sacraments. In fact what does the New Testament documents call the “New Testament”?

Let me help you out here. Here are Christian writers before the end of the 2nd century affirming and defending Apostolic succession... Clement in 80 A.D.: “Through countryside and city [the apostles] preached, and they appointed their earliest converts, testing them by the Spirit, to be the...

Odd reply given that Scripture itself testifies it was written...from tradition. (Luke 1)

Oh boy, Apostolic succession ensures right doctrine and valid Sacraments. It is therefore tge antidote to pagan rites and unscriptural doctrine. 2 Timothy 2:2 ---> "And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach...

One has Apostolic succession and therefore valid sacraments and the other does not. Thus one was founded by Christ and the other by someone who lived over a millennium later.

Calvinism sees God's sovereignty as determining human will, whereas Christianity sees God's sovereignty as incorporating human will (through infallible foreknowledge). God's predestination incorporates His foreknowledge of people's choices. God foresees all who will be saved, and these are the...

Unfortunately they do see it. Westboro Baptist is Calvinism perfectly practiced. “God hates you!” is the truth in Calvinism.

As opposed to a symbolic cannibal? If you believe he instructed his followers to eat something that symbolizes a body, then you are advocating symbolic cannibalism.

Calvinist answer to that question...

Yes. And Jesus used both in relation to Judas. Simile: "Behold, I am sending you [the twelve] out as sheep in the midst of wolves." (Mt. 10:16) Metaphor: "And Jesus said to them [the twelve], 'You will all fall away, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be...

And the simile is the SHEEP, the same sheep which appear in the parable of the last judgement, where the SHEEP appear as a metaphor for the SAVED. And Calvinism ONLY is true if Judas, once explicitly called a SHEEP by Jesus, is now in heaven looking down and smiling on you.

No, the keyword is SHEEP. Jesus is using a metaphor, unless you believe Jesus thought his disciples were actual sheep; that is ovis aries. Again, Jesus explicitly calls Judas a SHEEP. Calvinism can only be true if Judas is sitting in heaven right now smiling down on you.

It should come as a comfort to know that God still considers his followers friends, even when he knows they will eventually fall away.