What saith the Scripture Tradition must give way to the clear statements of the Scripture

  DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT SUPPORT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC VIEW OF COMMUNION? By Norman L. Geisler Introduction In the first three Gospels Jesus is represented as saying “this is my body” and “this is my blood” (Mt. 26:26, 28; Mark 14:21, 24; Lk. 22:19, 21) about the bread and wine at the Lord’s Supper.  This is repeated in 1 Corinthians 15:24.  On another occasion Jesus exhorted his disciples to “eat” his “flesh” and “drink” his blood” (John 6:52-58).  Roman Catholics base their doctrine of transubstantiation on these passages, affirming that bread and wine of the Communion are literally transformed into the physical body and blood of Christ, while retaining the outward appearance and characteristics of ordinary bread and wine.  

Sixth Vision: The Flying Scroll Zechariah 5:1–4  Covenant Curse: By identifying the scroll Zechariah saw as a “curse” (Zech. 5:3), the angel tells us it is a covenant document, the Lord’s treaty given through Moses. It is the execution of this curse sanction of the old covenant that is portrayed in Zechariah 5:1-4 (see Deut. 28:1–68; 29:16–28; cf. 27:11–26; Lev 26:3–39) Meredith G. Kline, Glory in Our Midst: A Biblical-Theological Reading of Zechariah’s Night Visions (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2001), 178.    I looked up again, and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll! 2 And he asked me, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.” 3 And he said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it. 4 ‘I have sent it out,’ declares Yahweh of hosts, ‘a...

 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood self-condemned, for until certain people came from James, he used to eat with the gentiles. But after they came, he drew back and kept himself separate for fear of the circumcision faction. And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. Gal. 2:11–13   But if I build up again the very things that I once tore down, then I demonstrate that I am a transgressor. Gal. 2:18   What Peter has first pulled down is the wall of partition between Jews and Gentiles. With his yielding to the party of James he is now building this up again and characterising his previous attitude as παράβασις transgression, and himself as παραβάτης transgressor, violator.  The contrast between “destroy” (καταλύω, katalyō) and “rebuild” (πάλιν οἰκοδομέω, palin oikodomeō) refers most naturally to the law: if Peter, as a Jewish Christian, should try to reinst...