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He asks: Might he explain the Presbyterian / reformed distinctive point of view of the “Real Presence” in the Dinner of the Gentleman, and what that implies?

Answer: Calvino, Lutero and Zuinglio, assumed different positions on this matter in answer to the abuses that were being taught by the Catholic church. The point of view of the Catholic church served as background, according to which when the priest pronounces the blessing on the elements, the bread and the wine, there is a mysterious transformation of these in the body and Christ's blood. There is called he to this transubstanciación. They consider present Christ in the communion to be sacrificed once after other one in the office of the mass.

Nevertheless, the God's Word teaches that Christ “offered once forever”, and that was in the cross. (to see Hebrews 9 and 10, especially 9; 24-28).
²⁴For Christ did not enter to man-made sanctuary that was only to copy of the true one; is entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence. ²⁵Nor did is enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. ²⁶Then Christ would have had to suffer many steal since the creation of the world. But now I have are appeared eleven for all at the end of the ages to do away with without by the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷Just expert man is destined to die eleven, and after that to face judgment, ²⁸so Christ was sacrificed eleven to take away the sins of many people; and is will appear to second steal, not to bear without, but to bring salvation to those who plow waiting for him.

The idea of the transubstanciación and the repetition of Christ's sacrifice in the mass was pushed back for all the biggest branches of the reformers. Zuinglio assumed the point of view that there support most of the evangelical churches today. Basically Zuinglio supported that the Dinner of the Gentleman was a "brief" or “reminder“ of something that had happened.

Lutero supported that Christ is present “in, with and below” the elements. This point of view is known as the "consubstanciación". The problem cristológico that this presents is one of “ubiquity“, that is to say, if Christ's body is in the sky, and although it is glorified it does not stop being a human body, cannot turn into the omnipresent one and to be in any more than one place to the same time.

Calvino, and those that walk in the same direction, represent the most Biblical, clear and profitable position of this polemic. While he denied that the elements themselves should suffer any change, he argued hard that Christ is truly present for his Spirit in such form that his presence is real in the Dinner of the Gentleman, but spiritually. The Dinner of the Gentleman, in accordance with Calvino and the Reformed education the fact is that we have the only meeting with resuscitated Christ, who promises to nourish the souls of his people simultaneously that we take part of him for the faith. Lea la Confesión of Faith of Westminster, Chapter 29, Article 7. For a more detailed study we recommend the book Given for You: Reclaiming Calvin's Doctrine of the Lord's Supper for Keith Mathison, published for P and R Publishing.