Church's View on the Eucharist Part 2

What about Consubstantiation? It would seem that Consubstantiation would be a good alternative since it too affirms the Real Presence of Communion without the baggage of Transubstantiation.
“Consubstantiation” is a term commonly applied to the Lutheran concept of the communion supper, though some modern Lutheran theologians reject the use of this term because of its ambiguity. The expression, however, is generally associated with Luther. The idea is that in the communion, the body and blood of Christ, and the bread and wine, coexist in union with each other. “Luther illustrated it by the analogy of the iron put into the fire whereby both fire and iron are united in the red-hot iron and yet each continues unchanged” (The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, F.L. Cross, Ed., London: Oxford, 1958, p. 337).
Consubstantiation sounds more like the heresy of Nestorianism. Nestoriansism states that Christ had two natures that were not united. They coexisted in Jesus. Therefore Mary could be called the mother of Jesus but not the mother of God. The theory of Consubstantiation as stated above that the body and blood of Christ are with, around, and by the bread and wine; yet are not joined to it. In some ways it stresses created elements as elements but it divides the substance. It is as though there are two natures on the altar.

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