Glenn’s Sole Stated Objection to Christ’s Presence in the Eucharist (Jesse! Pay Attention)

Glenn: “If it was really his body he couldn't be holding it and he'd be ordering cannibalism. THINK man.”

There are several failures in this one line. 1. Does Glenn think Christ is confined to an earthly body in heaven with “he cannot hold it? Earthly bodies end in decay. Does Glenn think heavenly life is no different from earthly life? Better put bandaids in the your casket. Is Glenn canceling the omnipresent character of god. God sits on a throne that hurts his back from time to time. 2. If Glenn denies the capacity of Christ to actually be in bread… then he cannot actually be in any of us. Glenn cancels the omnipotence of god’s character. 3. Or is Glenn limiting the capacities of god in the other direction? Is he actually forcing Christ to a solely spiritual disembodied existence, again canceling omnipresence? Is Christ’s “presence” everywhere just a symbolic presence? Is Glenn confusing earthly limitations as absolute eternal realities?Jesus said, without qualifications, “This is my body.” We Christians keep the sacrament of Communion for no other reason. That it is his body and blood is the only basis for it to BE communion. 4. Which leads to  the facetious cannibalism one: does Glenn think that Christ really hasn’t conquered death. If he has, then “eat my flesh and drink my blood” is no more scandalous than “put your finger in my side.” But for our spiritual nourishment, far far more vital.

St Paul has a direct answer for Glenn. More evidence that Glenn is ignorant of the very thing he worships:

“So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body. 

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall[b] also bear the image of the man of heaven. I tell you this, brethren: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.”