Without Transubstantiation There is no Remission of Sins

I see the question arising, yet again, over whether the accidents of bread and wine must always, even under the boundless and inexplicable aegis of the infinite power of God, correspond to the substance of bread and wine.

This is one of the reasons I spent a great deal of time digging into the riches of another Scriptural mystery that renders the above debate superfluous.

For if the bread and wine do not substantially become the flesh and blood of Christ, while yet retaining everything human sense experience can obtain in the accidents of bread and wine, then the “New” Covenant is unjustified, and you don’t even have a sacrifice for sins.

In other words, either Transubstantiation is true, or there is no salvation in Jesus Christ.

How?

Because the Covenant made under Moses is given one, and only one, legitimate supercession: the order of Melchizedek.

The Law and the Prophets, which were the written data justifying the Apostolic preaching, make it very clear that a priesthood would come that will last forever, and therefore must cancel out the existing (Aaronic).

The issue is this - that order of Melchizedek is not a bloody-animal-sacrificing priesthood, but a bread-and-wine priesthood.

So what Christian communities today have a bread-and-wine priesthood?

It can’t be the Baptists. It can’t be the Lutherans. It can’t be the Calvinists. All of them scoffed at the use of Melchizedek for the Eucharistic change in the Lord’s Supper.

Can it be the English Church?

No, because, at best, the Anglican Church still keeps the real and unchanged substance of bread and wine in every way, and thus the bread and wine function as simply a conveyor, albeit bounded and given some parameter, of another thing, namely, the substance of bread and wine. It is really not much different than what John Calvin taught.

That leaves Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Assyrian Church of the East, offshoots of any of these 4, and then some Anglo-Catholic circles as the only communities that have a theoretical justification for a New Covenant, and therefore the very death of Christ itself.

In other words, get the book.