How Can That Be Jesus? (Turretin & The Eucharist)

Calvinist Hyper-Rationalism vs. the Biblical Teaching of Twenty Kinds of God’s Presence

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Summary: If you’ve ever heard someone say “Jesus can’t be physically present in the Mass,” this is the episode that flips the script using Scripture (twenty passages), logic, and history.

What if one of the greatest Reformed theologians got the Eucharist completely wrong? In this episode of Catholic Bible Highlights, Catholic author and apologist Dave Armstrong joins Kenny Burchard to take on François Turretin’s objections to the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. With over 20 biblical examples of divine presence—spanning from burning bushes to the Incarnation to the Eucharist itself—this episode dismantles the hyper-rationalism of cessationism and reveals the biblical foundation for ongoing miracles and Christ’s sacramental presence. Prepare for a bold, biblical, and Catholic defense of the miraculous in the heart of the Church’s liturgy.

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