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Mormons believe that the body and blood of Christ are mere remembrances of Jesus Christ.

“The broken bread is a reminder of His body and His physical suffering—especially His suffering on the cross.” –https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/sacrament?lang=eng

But, without Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist/body and blood, they are rejecting not only Jesus’ clear words in the Gospel, but they are rejecting the very reason why man can know God. As Chapter 6 of St John’s gospel reveals:

“They said therefore unto him (Jesus), What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? … (Jesus) my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.” – John 6:30, 32, 33 KJV

Who is ‘he who cometh down from heaven?’ it is Jesus the Son of God, Word, and Logos, and Voice of God. (John 1). Jesus is the bread from Heaven.

Jesus states further:

“I am that bread of life. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. … Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.” – John 6: 48,51,53

Why does Jesus say that those who don’t eat his body and drink his blood have no life in them? Because without this direct participation in God, we are fenced off, and divided from Life, and Truth, who is Jesus the Logos (John 14:6 KJV). With this gulf between our limited human nature and God, we are left in total darkness and Ignorance.

The Mormon view is false because, as it rejects this fundamental teaching from Christ, it reduces this sacrament to a mere ‘remembrance’ or signifier for Jesus. In this reduction, they build a fence between themselves, and God.

Or they might bite the bullet, and simply say that mankind is capable of self-realized infallible knowledge, blurring the lines between Divinity and Humanity, an idea they are not foreign to accepting:

“Latter-day Saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense;” – https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/becoming-like-god?lang=eng

But surely no Latter-day Saint would say they are infallible, even if they do confuse the nature of God and Man in their theology. What evidence do they have for their divine natures? It’s simply what’s revealed in their scripture, but they can’t defend this view with argumentation, because it’s incoherent revelation.

But maybe the problem isn’t so much an ill-defined view of man, but that of God. Since they also believe God himself depends on the universe, admitting eternal law before eternal personhood in the Father. Without eternal personal divinity who creates everything, the Mormon starting points of God, Intelligences, and Eternal matter, are ultimately subservient to accidentalism and nihilism.

Even if we accept Joseph Smiths later revision of Jesus’ words, it doesn’t matter. Because the argument is when you reject Christ’s real liturgical presence, you divide man from knowledge, who is Christ. If Jesus doesn’t publicly reveal Himself in his Church, then knowledge is impossible, and if knowledge is impossible, Christianity is impossible.