No it doesn’t. We read the same Bible you do, and our doctrine of the Eucharist is based directly on Scripture. Now, I understand you believe your doctrine is also scriptural, but clearly an issue exists insofar as Lutherans, Anglicans, the Assyrian Church of the East and the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox have arrived at opposing interpretations of Scripture despite having either rejected, in the case of Lutherans, Anglicans and other liturgical Protestants, or never having been subject to, in the case of the various Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian churches, the caprices of Roman Catholicism.
Indeed as my friend
@MarkRohfrietsch and I often discuss, the Confessional Lutheran position on the Eucharist, arrived at independently by Martin Luther based on his own analysis of scripture, happens to correspond with the Orthodox doctrine in a number of ways, and is much closer to the Orthodox position than it is to the Roman Catholic.
This in turn takes us directly to my primary issue with Adventist theology, that is that so much of it is predicated upon what I consider a false dichotomy between Catholics and Restorationist Protestants, with the SDA being regarded as a uniquely enlightened leader of Protestantism owing to the writings of Ellen G White which are regarded as infallible inspired prophecy, which in turn themselves stress what I regard, from my detailed study of ecclesiastical history, as a considered opinion, a false dichotomy between an evil Roman Catholic empire and a virtuous Adventist rebellion, which is then turned into an epic cosmological good vs. evil narrative, which I think is terribly uncharitable to Roman Catholics, especially to the conservative Traditional Catholics who are suffering so much under Pope Francis, being denied worship according to their customs and otherwise suffering from very unpleasant treatment.
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