Answer to:"How can the bread and wine, transformed, still cause people with gluten allergy to react to the wheat's gluten?"

Hey everyone, thanks for reading ;D

I have been REALLY busy lately, so sorry for the lack of writings.

I received this as a comment a few weeks ago:

How can the bread and wine, transformed, still cause people with gluten allergy to react to the wheat's gluten? How does one explan that it's transformed but it's still got the qualities of the substance? If it's changed, then people allergic to gluten shouldn't react to the gluten, right? Same for those with allergies to the sulfites in wine (me). Yes, we can ask for special no sulfite wine or low gluten hosts, but it's not wine or host anymore after the consecration, it's Jesus!

Sorry about the late response, but here it goes:

So, this is a great question, thanks for asking it!  Now, almost a year after writing this article(Answer to: So what is transubstantiation?), I have learned loads more and hopefully this will make sense.  The bread and wine, the body and blood of Jesus Christ, IS a symbol, and ISN'T a symbol.  Obviously, we are not eating human flesh and drinking blood.  So in that respect it IS a symbol.  But, it also ISN'T a symbol because we believe that it is the body and blood of Jesus Christ.  This sounds super confusing, I am sure, but I do not know of a single person who fully understands transubstantiation.  My other article on transubstantiation was somewhat of a brief overview, and this will hopefully help you out!

God bless you!

Your sister and witness in Christ,

Emily

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