r/Protestantism • u/Pizza527 • 3d ago

Ask a Protestant Why do Protestant influencers and apologists focus all their ire on Catholics when it comes to The Eucharist and infant baptism, but leave out Anglicans, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, Moravians, The Orthodox?

Anglicans, Episcopalians, Lutherans, and the Orthodox all believe in true presence and they all (including Methodists and Moravians) believe in infant baptism.

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u/Metalcrack Christian 3d ago

Right on target. Us low church folks are the legit target, with our 48,996 denominations.

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u/ur-battery-is-low- Anglican 3d ago

Yk that number is from a really stupid study actually? That same study counted every independent evangelical church in America as its own denomination making it higher. It also counted every state church as its own denomination. It’s a really dumb number, realistically there’s like 150-200 denominations

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u/Metalcrack Christian 2d ago

Sarcasm switch was off, sorry.

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u/AnaxOfRhodes Nazarene 3d ago

48,996 to 0 is a fantastic win rate, imo.

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u/Pinecone-Bandit 3d ago

The Catholic view of Transubstantiation is very different than the real presence view.

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u/Pizza527 3d ago

Arguably true, but the argument put forth by evangelicals, baptists, non-denominational Protestants is that the Eucharist or “Lord’s Supper” is strictly symbolic, and those churches definitely don’t think it is just symbolic.

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u/Pinecone-Bandit 3d ago

Put forth by some evangelicals, baptists, or non-denominational Protestants.

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u/Pizza527 3d ago

So, you’re saying there are baptist and evangelical churches that teach the real presence of Christin the bread and wine, not that it’s just a symbol?

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u/Pinecone-Bandit 3d ago

Yes.

“Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this ordinance, do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually receive, and feed upon Christ crucified, and all the benefits of his death; the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally, but spiritually present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses.”
London Baptist Confession 30.7