Called to Communion Protestants in Invincible Ignorance?
Feb 9, 2026
Discussion of Eucharistic accidents and how transubstantiation is explained. A deep dive into SSPX origins, illicit consecrations, and their consequences. Exploration of purgatory, aeviternity, and how separated souls experience duration. Conversation about why God allows suffering and the biblical perspective on forgiveness and final impenitence.
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Do Not Profess A Religion You Do Not Believe
- Avoid publicly professing a faith you don't believe because a Catholic knowingly professing Islam would be committing apostasy.
- Dr. David Anders explains only subjective conviction excuses such a profession and warns it's a very grave sin for someone formed in Catholic truth.
Accidents Remain but Inhere In No Subject
- In the Eucharist the substance of bread and wine becomes Christ while the sensible properties remain as accidents that inhere in no subject.
- Anders stresses the accidents (taste, smell, appearance) persist by God's sustaining power rather than being properties of Christ's body.
Christianity Allows Honest Lament About Suffering
- Suffering remains a deep theological puzzle but Christianity offers consolations: purpose, union with Christ, and hope.
- Anders cites Job and Psalm 88 to show Scripture permits honest lament without tidy philosophical answers.