Do the Lutherans still hold the sacrifice of the Mass, and what is consubstantiation versus transubstantiation?
A viewer says they heard the Lutherans still say the words of consecration, and Robert explains consubstantiation versus transubstantiation.
Answer
I have not been to a Lutheran church, so I do not know their current practice, but Martin Luther believed in what he called consubstantiation instead of transubstantiation. Consubstantiation means the bread is still there and Christ is there with it; con means with. The Catholic Church says no, the bread is gone, it does not exist anymore, it is Christ there in disguise looking like bread; that is the difference, and I have not heard that the Lutherans changed that doctrine. Calvin had a more diluted view, that somehow spiritually Christ is there but the bread is still there, and spiritually is a nice word to use because nobody knows what it means. And as you go down the line, the Baptists, Methodists, and Unitarians reject it altogether and take the bread and grape juice as just a symbol.