Why doesn't transubstantiation change the taste or alcohol content of communion wine?

Answer 1

Because it doesn't become blood. Believing that it does doesn't make it so.

Answer 2

I realize that you're taking a shot at those of us who believe, but I'll answer this way.

I am not a Roman Catholic, ergo I do not believe in transubtantiation. My faith believes in consubstantiation. We believe that the True Body and Blood of Jesus Christ are "in, with, and under" the bread and wine.

Answer 3

LOL

Big word for an unbeliever! Good one. Fortunately most Christians dont believe the emblems change form!

Answer 4

Because the Christian priests have never gotten the spell or the Jesus Theory behind it, down cold. They'll evolve, don't worry.

Answer 5

Becuase it still wine!

Answer 6

Here is my article explaining that|
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THE EUCHARIST AND METAPHYSICAL BEING
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By Jim J. McCrea


At Mass, bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Jesus Christ, by
the priest, as an instrument of the Holy Spirit.

No bread nor wine remain, but the appearances of them do - their look, their
feel, their taste etc. remain.

That is the Eucharist, and it is *THE* mystery of the Faith.


If one claims to be Catholic, but does not believe it, he simply is not
Catholic. It does not matter if he was baptized Catholic, attends Mass every
Sunday, and believes everything else the Church teaches.

The Eucharist is the *heart* of the Catholic Faith.


If the Eucharist is neither bread nor wine, but merely appears as bread and
wine, how far does this appearance go?

The answer is |||||,completely||||.


Not only does the Eucharist appear as bread and wine to the senses, but has
absolutely the same physical effects as bread and wine on anything else.

Any possible scientific experiment would show that it is bread and wine.

The Sacred Host would nourish the body, as real bread would do, and the Precious
Blood would inebriate if taken in sufficient quantities, as real wine would do.

Jesus Christ is present under the appearances of bread and/or wine as long as
those appearances remain (as verified by St. Thomas Aquinas). So as soon as they
corrupt, Jesus Christ is no longer present. The Sacred Species behaves so much
like bread and wine, that what they corrupt into is exactly what real bread and
wine corrupt into.

Any way you can slice it physically or scientifically (and there are an infinite
number of ways of slicing it), the result is physical bread and wine.


However, supernatural faith cuts through the subtlest and most sophisticated
physical reasoning to see Jesus Christ contained within those appearances of
bread and wine.

With that, the human intellect is elevated infinitely above what it is capable
of naturally (faith being a supernatural illumination of the intellect, by God,
to allow it to assent with certitude to the mysteries that God reveals).


How do we answer the objections of those who say that if something has every
characteristic of a thing, that it must be that thing?

How do we answer those who say that if the Eucharist has all the physical
characteristics of bread, it must be bread?


We do this by distinguishing between *phenomena* and *being.*

Phenomena is what appears to the senses and what has an effect on physical
things as the physical sciences can determine it.

Being, on the other hand, is "that which is."


For something to act upon our senses or scientific instruments, it first must
*exist* - that is, it first must have being, which is actuality existing outside
of nothingness.

Something first exists and then it acts (in the order of operation, not time),
in that action has a basis in a really existing thing.

As a result, there is a real distinction between being and action.

If this is true, it is intrinsically possible to separate them.

This is exactly what happens with the Eucharist, as the being of it is one thing
(Jesus Christ), and the physical action of it is another thing (bread).

This separation is effected by the omnipotence of God who causes the physical
action or behavior of bread and wine without the underlying being of bread or
wine.


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Proper metaphysics is essential to the Catholic Faith (this is not the
metaphysics of New Age).

Metaphysics is the science of being as being, or the science of the ultimate
nature of reality.

This is necessary, because only upon a proper conception of reality can the
Catholic Faith be based.

For example, if it is believed that everything is divine, then it makes no sense
to say that the Father sent His Son into a sinful world to save it.


The metaphysician is a rare but vital part of the Catholic Faith.

The metaphysician ensures that our understanding of the foundational truths of
reality are correct.

The 20th century Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain maintained that a
requirement for the metaphysician is that he have an "intuition of being as
such" or alternatively, "a metaphysical intuition of being."

The intuition of being as such, is the ability to see past mere phenomena (or
what appears to the senses or registers on scientific instruments) to perceive
the being, or "that which is," that underlies it - that is, to see the actuality
of it that is opposed to nothingness - and to see this actuality *as such* with
the intellect.

Superficially, that may seem obvious, but many famous philosophers throughout
history did not possess this intuition. Neither Immanuel Kant nor John Locke
possessed it. All that they affirmed in their investigations of reality was
phenomena.

Not all philosophers have the intuition of being as such, for they do not attain
to being as being with their philosophy. Not all who claim to be metaphysicians
are such. Many of those are psychologists. They investigate reality on the basis
of how the human mind associates and distinguishes different things. These do
not reach being as such.


What are some of the fundamental principles of being?

One of these principles is the fact that being is *good,* *intelligible,*
*unified,* and *beautiful;* any evil, nonsense, disunity, or ugliness in
something is but a lack of being that is due to that thing (for example,
blindness as a physical evil is not a positive being, but is a lack of what is
due - namely sight).

This affirms that anything that has being in a positive way is good and is
created by a good God, but at the same time, explains the reality of evil in the
universe.

Also, created being is *contingent.* It is not the nature of created being to
exist on its own, so it must have its explanation in a being whose nature it is
to exist on its own, which is God.

All true metaphysics leads to the supreme being, who is God.

True metaphysics is the natural foundation of the Catholic Faith.


Many people do not realize the fact that the great loss of the Faith that has
occurred in our time has been chiefly caused by philosophical errors that have
been passed down through the centuries - from famous thinkers such as Ockham,
Descartes, Hume, Kant, Locke, and Mill.

A philosophical error known as *empiricism* has done much to undermine belief in
the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Empiricism holds that physical objects are nothing but groupings of sense
qualities, such as hardness, shape, color, etc. rather than those being *beings
with* those sense qualities. If empiricism is true, then anything with the sense
qualities of bread can only be bread (since a being is reduced to these sense
qualities). But if there is an underlying being to these sense qualities, then
Jesus Christ can exist as this being as the sense qualities of bread remain.

But for one who holds to empiricism, but who wishes to believe in the Real
Presence, the best he can hold to is the idea that Jesus is somehow present in
the bread as real bread remains, thus affirming the Lutheran error of
*consubstantiation* (to which many Catholics unwittingly hold. A Catholic
scientist can be subject to this error because he is liable to reduce physical
things to their physical properties, due to his training, not realizing that
there is metaphysical being underlying them).


To get people in society back to the Faith again, it is not sufficient to
evangelize them with the truths of the Faith.

The erroneous notions of reality that they hold must be corrected first.

That is why a correct philosophy of being - or a correct metaphysics - must be
given to them.

To evangelize people, we first have to deprogram them of what is false and
reprogram them as to what is true concerning the nature of reality.









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Answer 7

Because that so-called conversion is simply nonsense and ritualistic mumbo jumbo.

Answer 8

OH COME NOW, LIKE YOU'VE NEVER EVER TASTED THE SWEET FLESH OF JESUS?

Answer 9

because the whole thing is fraudulent
consubstantiation is symbolic

Answer 10

It's not supposed to, why would it?