The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Paragraph 30.6

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That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine, into the substance of Christ's body and blood, commonly called transubstantiation, by consecration of a priest, or by any other way, is repugnant not to Scripture alone,⁠¹⁠ but even to common sense and reason, overthrows the nature of the ordinance, and has been, and is, the cause of manifold superstitions, yea, of gross idolatries.⁠²⁠

expand_more [1] Acts 3:21; Luke 14:6

expand_more [2] 1 Corinthians 11:24–25

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What is transubstantiation?

The right doctrine that the bread and wine become Christ’s body and blood

The right doctrine that we digest the elements for our own good

The wrong doctrine that the bread and wine become Christ’s body and blood

Another name for consubstantiation, the view of the original Reformer, Luther

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