Certainly the Catholic church can validate their understanding of the Eucharist throu Research and Data Collection  gh apostolic and postapostolic writings however Reformed traditions and Pentecostals would challenge their theological interpretation as reading beyond the text of Luke-Acts and the Pauline expressions of communion. Dodd highlights that the literal reading of “this is my body” is an interpolation of cultic practices and expressions in order to transmit the significance of the remembrance of the meal. The problematic words of Luke, remembrance and covenant, must be read through a historical-socio and religious prism of Greco-Roman and Palestinian environments. These words would have evoked images that held sacramental significance for both Jews and Gentiles. Luke’s deliberate usage of the word anamnesis was to trigger a persuasive eschatological focus to the meal. He fur Research and Data Collection  ther adds that Luke specifically chose provocative words, to enforce a “continuous interplay between behaviour and vocabulary Research and Data Collection  …to imitate, encourage in order to develop a persuasive eschatological thought of the time”. Theologians and Philosophers like Tertullian and Epiricius identify the pagan bread offerings at the temple of Mithra and other cultic practices that were held in commemoration for the dead. While postapostolic and traditional sources may give weight for theological understanding today, it is supplanted by the cultic aetiology from other pagan ‘sacrificial meals’ that were present amongst the Gentiles. Pentecostals reject the doctrine surrounding transubstantiation and align it with the historical growth of superstition, occultism and mysticism of society in the 10th century. While Catholicism perceives the institution of the Eucharist is a perpetual sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages, Pentecostals perceive the New Cov Research and Data Collection  enant solely in relationship to Jesus’ death on the cross and promise of the outpouring of the Spirit. Köstenberger highlights that Catholicism has forgotten that throughout the Hebraic scriptures when covenants were cut they were always ancillary to the oath and therefore a bloodless sacrifice is not necessary as it was already achieved through the cross.>