Sure Daniel,

I don't believe in Transubstantiation biblically because I go into logic-mode. Since Jesus was standing in front of the disciples, the bread and wine could not literally be his body and blood because they were separate at that very moment.

If Jesus said "This will become my body and blood" I would believe in transubstantiation.

Now it is spiritual in its effect in me where it counts in my spirit when I consider what my Lord did for me. Namely, I take in for myself his broken body for my spiritual food which gives eternal life. The act of eating communion represents what really happened, I took Jesus' sacrifice for eternal life. The blood is less clear to me though I know I take in to my innermost being the blood of the new covenant which banishes the law for grace and appeases God as compared to the animal sacrifices.

The giving of the Spirit is similar. Jesus blows on them ( the air was nothing in and of itself) and it was symbolic of the coming of the Spirit later (the real thing)

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Bryan Wiley
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Reformed Baptist Church
Louisville, Kentucky