Interview Q/A

1. What is the Lord's Supper? It is the true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, instituted as bread and wine by Christ himself, that we Christians might eat and drink common union with him. 2. So, you say, you believe that the very flesh and blood of Jesus of Nazareth are to be ingested in this Sacrament of the Altar? Yes, this is given in order that it be believed through faith, and I myself believe it. 3. Why would you believe such a thing? Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night when he was betrayed, took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and gave it to the twelve, saying, “Take, eat. This is my body.” In the same way, after the Passover supper took the cup, and when he had given thanks, gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you. This cup is the New Testament in my blood, shed for you, for the forgiveness of sins. Do this often, for as you drink it is my testimony.” There are no more serious words of our Lord than these sayings, which are called by the pious his Words of Institution.

4. Isn’t it madness to believe that the body and blood of a man could also be a piece of bread and a bit of wine? Yes, unless that man, born of woman, is also the Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds. Jesus is the only such person.

5. This is far fetched! All religions make such claims of their founders. You are wrong in two ways. First, no other religion claims either that its founder is the authentic, single God, nor that this God, as man, as common food, is to be eaten, while Christianity alone claims both. Second, no other religion’s claims are as falsifiable as these two claims of Christ.