Long ago the Bible warned that some people would "turn away from the truth and turn aside to myths" (2 Timothy 2:4). The doctrine of transubstantiation is one example.

   Believers of this doctrine say that in their observance of the Lord's Supper which they call "Mass," the bread and fruit of the vine miraculously change 
into the actual body and blood of Jesus. Allegedly, the transubstantiation occurs when their priest repeats, with accompanying bells, Jesus' statement, 
"This is My body,... This is My blood," over the bread and fruit of the vine.

   Transubstantiation is fiction. Jesus once said, "I am the door" (John 10:9). Did He mean a literal door? No, even the transubstantiator understands Jesus spoke metaphorically. And the Lord was obviously
doing the same when He "took bread,... and gave it to the disciples and said, 'Take eat: this is My body'" (Matthew 26:26). Can we be sure? Absolutely.

   First, when Jesus turned water to wine at Cana, the change was obvious, (John 2:1-10); likewise when God turned water to blood, (Exodus 7:19-25). But when Jesus called the cup His blood (Matthew 26:27,28) He then said: "I will not drink of THIS fruit of the vine" (v.29). Conclusively, Jesus did NOT distribute His own literal body and blood to the disciples to consume....Talk about a gross Halloween story!

   Secondly, would the Lord who has condemned the consumption of blood in every dispensation--Patriarchal (Genesis 9:4), Mosaic (Leviticus 17:10) and Christian (Acts 15:20)-- command the disciples to drink His?! The Bible says, "God is NOT the author of confusion" (1 Corinthians 14:33).

   Thirdly, if the actual body and blood of Jesus is present in the Lord's Supper, then Christ suffers and is sacrificed every time a case of transubstantiation takes place. Indeed, transubstantiators refer to it as "the sacrifice of the Mass." But the Bible says emphatically that Jesus suffered only ONE sacrifice, the cross (cf., Hebrews 9:24-28;10:10-14).

   Finally, Christians do NOT eat and drink Christ's sacrificed body and blood, but actual bread and fruit of the vine "in remembrance" of Him (cf., Matthew 26:26-29; 1Corinthians 11:23-29).