Uh… I’m pretty sure the catholics believe strongly in the principle of transubstantiation. It’s still taught at the teenage level before confirmation. That is the exact opposite of what you’re claiming the lutherans believe, which, seeing as I remember my ‘lessons’ in one of the synods’ influence, lutherans don’t even really claim the transubstantiation is a real thing.
From what I understand Luther doesn’t believe in transubstantiation, he/they believe Christ’s blood and body are just naturally occuring in the Eucharist. It doesn’t have to become it, but you have to believe you are actually eating the body and blood of Christ. How would that be opposite if I never even mentioned transubstantiation? I just mentioned the Eucharist, which both Catholics and Lutheran’s eat, believing it physically is/contains Jesus.
In my experience, most Christians don’t study their beliefs, so many people who claim they are Catholic, like my mother when she sent both my brother and I as kids to Catholic stuff, doesn’t know/believe that to be Catholic she must really believe she is doing so.
So she may really believe in Jesus, and not go to church in the last 15-20 years, but she in reality isn’t a Catholic, she’s another form of Christian and doesn’t know it.
My brother and I both got dragged through the whole communion and he did his confirmation thing back in the 90s. Whole thing was stupid. I was rejected by the Church to be baptized as a baby because my father worked weekends and only my brother and mother went. So my grandparents lived next to a priest from another church and they just had me baptized there and brought me to the church that refused me anyways. I’ll never understand the things people do just to fit in.
Uh… I’m pretty sure the catholics believe strongly in the principle of transubstantiation. It’s still taught at the teenage level before confirmation. That is the exact opposite of what you’re claiming the lutherans believe, which, seeing as I remember my ‘lessons’ in one of the synods’ influence, lutherans don’t even really claim the transubstantiation is a real thing.
From what I understand Luther doesn’t believe in transubstantiation, he/they believe Christ’s blood and body are just naturally occuring in the Eucharist. It doesn’t have to become it, but you have to believe you are actually eating the body and blood of Christ. How would that be opposite if I never even mentioned transubstantiation? I just mentioned the Eucharist, which both Catholics and Lutheran’s eat, believing it physically is/contains Jesus.
In my experience, most Christians don’t study their beliefs, so many people who claim they are Catholic, like my mother when she sent both my brother and I as kids to Catholic stuff, doesn’t know/believe that to be Catholic she must really believe she is doing so.
So she may really believe in Jesus, and not go to church in the last 15-20 years, but she in reality isn’t a Catholic, she’s another form of Christian and doesn’t know it.
My brother and I both got dragged through the whole communion and he did his confirmation thing back in the 90s. Whole thing was stupid. I was rejected by the Church to be baptized as a baby because my father worked weekends and only my brother and mother went. So my grandparents lived next to a priest from another church and they just had me baptized there and brought me to the church that refused me anyways. I’ll never understand the things people do just to fit in.