Transubstantiate Pagan or Sacred?

The Christian church is founded solely upon the teachings of Jesus Christ. The church originally was composed of all Jewish members who accepted Jesus as their long-awaited Messiah and the Son of God. Most of the Jewish community, however, rejected the Gospel which was then embraced by the Gentiles. Through Christ's universal message of grace and redemption, God's church was opened to all believers, both Jew and Gentile. Scattered throughout the world, God's church existed as “a spiritual entity- one founded and directed by the Holy Ghost.1] United in the sacrifice of Christ, Christians remember Christ;s conquering of eternal death in the celebration of Holy Communion. At the Lord's Supper, Jesus first celebrated the sacrament of Communion, an “outward sign of inward grace instituted by Christ for our sanctification[2] to convey to His church the eternal accomplishments of His sacrifice.

The roots of Holy Communion trace back to the Jewish Passover Seder symbolism of the Passover lamb. The Passover Seder is a symbolic meal celebrating how God spared the Israelites from the Angel of Death in His final plague on Egypt. Through His servant Moses, God commanded the Israelites to sacrifice a spotless lamb and spread its blood on the doorposts of their homes. When the Angel of Death came to slaughter the firstborn in Egypt, he passed over the homes that were covered by the lamb's blood, inflicting death upon those homes, Jewish and Egyptian alike, that were not covered with the blood. Each year afterwards, the Hebrew people have continued celebrating the Passover Seder, remembering how God has preserved the nation of Israel. Wine is symbolically used in the Seder where, Four cups of wine are consumed at the meal indicating God's saving presence four times in Jewish history.[3] Both the unleavened bread and wine, along with the other symbolic elements of Passover, were given new meaning at Jesus' celebration of the Passover Seder in the Last Supper.