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The Hidden Jesus: The Truth about the Eucharist is unavailable, but you can change that!

If you’ve ever been asked about your belief in the Eucharist, you know how hard it can be to clearly explain the Real Presence. You’ll get questions like: • Why would Jesus have instructed his apostles to eat his real body and drink his real blood at the Last Supper? Isn’t that cannibalism? • How could Jesus be actually present in the Eucharist? That seems impossible. The fact is, though...

The problem with this limited definition is that it leaves out all that Paul meant by the word remembrance. In the original New Testament Greek, the word is anamnesis. In ordinary Greek, it could mean just memory or remembrance, but in the New Testament it meant more. In the Greek philosophy with which Paul was acquainted, anamnesis meant the transferring of heavenly realities to this physical world. The Greek philosopher Plato used the word in this way. Then, too, as a Pharisee, Paul was deeply
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