"soul" and "divinity"? Now where did that come from? Is the soul and divinity mentioned in Christ's last supper statement, and Paul's reiteration of it? (wouldn't it require two more elements, even?) I don't even see that in the ECF's. Was that another secret teaching the apostles taught, and everyone kept it hidden until centuries later?Real Presence means the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist: Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
And you still insist nothing developed; it was all taught in its complete detailed form from the beginning?
No, sin is only against GOD (Christ), not inanimate objects. Again, the sin is in dishonoring Him, and the context was gluttony. You have turned the elements themselves into deity, and by implication, objects of worship, where even dropping crumbes or spilling it is "dishonoring the body and blood of Christ". Tell, me, were those things they use to catch the "accidents" in the NT Church and ECF's as well? They would be if your assertion were true.Paul...says we can sin against the Eucharist (1 Cor 11:23).
Now you admit a development! Well, that is what happened with the Real Presence doctrine as well, when you make the move from Ignatius to Justin and Irenaeus, and beyond. The Western Church simply took it further, and the East drew a line and said no more development in the doctrine.Transubstantiation is a developed view of Real Presence, by which the nature of the transformation of the elements of bread and wine is explained, according to more philosophical categories. There were many traces of such a view early on. The Greek Fathers before the sixth century, for example, used the term metaousiosis, which meant "change of being," quite similar to "change of substance."
Also, forgot to reiterate, that many other Church historians testify to these developments in Church doctrine. It is not just some Baptist brainstorm.