WilyCoyote,

Metaphysics is a philosophy. It is "man's wisdom" and it is foolishness with God. Yet you find it necessary to turn to this vain philosophy rather than to God's word to explain the Roman "faith".

Are the worlds philosophers, the metaphysicists, the last resort when all other means of justifying Rome's many false doctrines and blasphemies fail?

If you don't believe that Jesus Christ IS physically present, and if the "infallible" Pope Gregory VII were still in power, you would be in a heap of trouble as the "priest" Berengarius found himself to be. He was ordered to subscribe to the following:

"I believe in my heart and openly profess that the bread and wine placed upon the altar are, by the mystery of the sacred prayer and the words of the Redeemer, substantially changed into the true and life-giving flesh and blood of Jesus Christ our Lord, and that after the Consecration there is present the true body of Christ which was born of the Virgin and offered up for the salvation of the world, hung on the cross and now sits at the right hand of the Father, and that there is present the true blood of Christ which flowed from his side. They are present not only by means of a sign and of the efficacy of the sacrament, but also in the very reality and truth of their nature and substance."

What of your beloved Augustine who says: "It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation."?

Your "infallible" pope Paul VI declares that Mary "from whom Christ Our Lord took the flesh which under the species of bread and wine 'is contained, offered and consumed'".

From the link you posted, this:
Quote:
We therefore confess that the Sacrifice of the Mass is and ought to be considered one and the same Sacrifice as that of the cross, for the victim is one and the same, namely, Christ our Lord, who offered Himself, once only, a bloody Sacrifice on the altar of the cross. The bloody and unbloody victim are not two, but one victim only, whose Sacrifice is daily renewed in the Eucharist


It is found at the same link, and others as well, that in your eucharist the "victim is immolated". To "immolate" is to offer as a sacrifice by killing.

Now you want us to believe that all of these "infallible" pronouncements are nothing more than "metaphysical" dissertations?

I guess you want to have your cookie and eat it too.

KJB Only