So man was formed from nothing into something; we were given substance. We do not retain the properties of nothingness, we have been completely transformed into something. Although we share physical characteristics of the nothingness that surrounds us.
Bread is nothingness. Wine is nothingness. They have no substance in and of themselves. They are held in existence by God.
But then, God transforms them. He transforms them into Himself. He gives bread and wine substance. The chalice still appears to hold nothing, but it now contains something, God, the only true substance. It cannot at once hold nothing and something, so it cannot hold both wine (which is nothingness) and God (who is something).
Why still retain the appearance of nothingness?
Because God is humble. Christ came in human flesh, composed of nothingness. He humbled Himself to the point of becoming human, becoming a being composed of nothingness, and dying, the ultimate act of becoming nothing.
And on the same note, if man is something now that God has breathed life into him and given Him substance, then although Jesus took the form of nothing in human flesh, both His human nature and His divine nature were of substance, so he humbled Himself, but He did not negate Himself, for something and nothing cannot coexist in the same person.
Bread and wine, however, do not have substance. They are truly nothing, and so their "substance" is replaced by that of God, since they were not truly substantial in the first place.
This may be completely wrong, but this is my current reasoning for why God did not choose consubstantiation instead of transubstantiation (since I once had someone tell me that the first would make more sense since Christ had two natures in one person).
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