You gave a different meaning to it, like "he is our living god", Why, then is the image of his gruesome death so appealing to you?
Do you also believe that wine is his blood and bread is his body?
Is this cannibalism in effigy?
2006-06-26 11:07:53 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
we believe it represents his body and blood and the reason it is so appealing is be cause it meant we could go to heaven even if we sinned
2006-06-26 11:10:08 · answer #1 · answered by liveslifelikeitcomes 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The cross is a symbol to remind us of how Jesus died and why, that does not mean it loses meaning though. Obviously crucifixtion was the most feared form of execution in Jesus' time. This is why it is such a powerful story when the Jews not only want Barrabas released but want Jesus crucified.
Holy Communion or The Lord's Supper is practiced as a remembrance to the Last Supper as Jesus commanded "do this in remembrance of me". I am a member of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. The following Q&A is from Luther's Small Cathechism with Explanation.
What are the visible elements in the Sacrament?
The visible elements are bread and wine.
Matt. 26:26-27 Jesus took bread.... Then He took the cup.
Note: "The fruit of the vine" (Luke 22:18) in the Bible means wine, not grape juice. See also I Cor. 11:21.
Do Christ's body and blood in the Sacrament replace the bread and wine, so that the bread and wine are no longer there?
No, bread and wine remain in the Sacrament.
1 Cor. 11:26 Whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.
How then are the bread and wine in the Sacrament the body and blood of Christ?
The bread and wine in the Sacrament are Christ's body and blood by sacramental union. By the power of His word, Christ gives His body and blood in, with, and under the consecrated (blessed) bread and wine.
1 Cor. 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? (NKJV).
2006-06-26 11:28:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, Dorie,
Didn't you say on someone else's question that "Belief in God is not archaic, it is preadolescent at best. The human psyche needs to evolve into maturity where belief in fantasy is replaced by reason"?
OK, so you don't believe in God. Why keep on picking a scab with your obviously baiting questions? (Do you want us all to help you pass out circulars? Do you think anybody'd really gives a fig that you don't believe in a god? Do you really think others are going to shrivel up and blow away because you don't like something about the world?)
Go to Arabia and peeve some Muslims if religion baiting is such a fun game for you. Nobody has you pinned to a wall saying you must believe.
If the story goes that Jesus was crucified then what's so wrong about depicting it. Nobody's being sadistic about it; it's just supposed to be a reminder that someone died for others.
2006-06-26 11:29:15 · answer #3 · answered by The Invisible Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those images are kept and used and idolized by catholics, Protestants, or at least Apostolic are not allowed to have images of any kind. We are making up images of who, what and where ever biblical times supposedly happened. We are to only look up to one God, and our Mediator his Son.
I think anyone who keeps an image of the Crucified Christ is praying to a Dead Christ and not to the Christ that is sitting at the Right Hand of God.
The Cross was merely a weapon (instrument) used to kill Jesus, If Jesus would of been killed on an electric chair or, hung on a rope or maybe even been beheaded by a guillotine, would people carry those as a symbol of remembrance of the way he died?
Do people actually think that the "Cross" or images of the "Cross" or "Jesus" will actually protect them? This is also called idolatry, because we should pray to God for protection and everything else, and not base our faith on tangible things.
2006-06-26 11:13:57 · answer #4 · answered by Marillita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isnt like we can choose His death... we didn't write the scriptures. It is not "appealing" its actually very humbling. And no, only Catholics believe that the bread and wine are really Jesus' body and blood, the rest of us realise it is a symbol of the new covenant.
2006-06-26 11:15:24 · answer #5 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For God so belovethed us he sent his only Son to die on the crusifix. So we can be cleansed of our sins. So the sight of the cross is an image that is very admirable. When you take communion and drink the wine and eat the bread you are taking in a part of God into your heart excepting him and honoring him and repentful for your sins.
2006-06-26 11:14:47 · answer #6 · answered by Spencer B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is gruesome about His death? That's the way things were done in those times.
All of the rites and mysticism were generated from an era so vastly different from the era in which we live, it is difficult to grasp why in an easily understood manner.
2006-06-26 11:14:25 · answer #7 · answered by Blue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the mystery of our faith. Christ has died.....Christ is risen....Christ will come again. It does not appeal to us, a human, who is divine as well....dying. It's not cannibalism, it's the way he made it. The bread and wine help us to remember what he gave for and to us....his body, his blood.....his eternal spirit within us.
2006-06-26 11:18:17 · answer #8 · answered by Peanut to the rescue! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said I am okay with it? I cry when I think of what I put HIM through. I could barely sit through the Passion of the Christ. Many people can sit through movies such as House of a thousand corpses and feel less than I feel when I think about it.
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As far as the symoblism of the Holy communion, Jesus Himself asked us to do this in rememberance of Him. It is very humbling to remember this when we do. It makes us stop, think, pray, and thank.
2006-06-26 11:16:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they all really know it's not real...plenty of forgotten people did die that way of course and that was a reality... but Jesus is not real so it's just another movie, the blood is just foaming blood capsules you can buy in any joke store.
2006-06-26 11:12:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the gruesome death was because we all are sinners and that my friend is our doing. although i am sad from all the pain he went through i am so glad he did that for me. the wine and blood are symbols not real. the bible uses alot of symbolism try reading it sometime you will see. it can be confusing sometimes/
2006-06-26 11:12:06 · answer #11 · answered by crzygurl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋