Bernard_Marx
Puritan Board Freshman
I have a friend who recently has become quite enamoured with Lutheran Theology. We talk much about the Lutheran view of the Lord's Supper, which I find not only unscriptural but also patently illogical. It seems as though the Lutheran theologians I've read (admittedly I've only been studying this topic for about two weeks) that they're more than willing to accept total contadictions in their beliefs (and I'm talking about the major theologians here).
However it seems as though these theologians are willing to use logic to defeat Reformed theology, the same logic they so readily decry. One such piece of logic they use is when they claim Reformed theology wringly divides Christ in its insistance that Christ is spiritually present in the Lord's Supper, not bodily.
In thinking about this it occured to me that perhaps the Lutherans are committing a bit of a Red Herring here...if Christ's presence in the Lord's Supper flows through the Holy Spirit which in turn flows through Christ who is seated in Heaven...then is there a division?
If anyone can shed some other light on this Lutheran objection or help me work through the "answer" I've given that'd be swell.
However it seems as though these theologians are willing to use logic to defeat Reformed theology, the same logic they so readily decry. One such piece of logic they use is when they claim Reformed theology wringly divides Christ in its insistance that Christ is spiritually present in the Lord's Supper, not bodily.
In thinking about this it occured to me that perhaps the Lutherans are committing a bit of a Red Herring here...if Christ's presence in the Lord's Supper flows through the Holy Spirit which in turn flows through Christ who is seated in Heaven...then is there a division?
If anyone can shed some other light on this Lutheran objection or help me work through the "answer" I've given that'd be swell.