Uhh, communion? Come on now.
2006-09-08 22:06:13 · 10 answers · asked by Dan 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Actually the Chatholics are quite open about it. They call it 'Transubstansiation'. The papal doctorine is quite clear is stating that when taking communion, the holy cracker changes form to become the actual flesh of Jesus, and the holy Kool-Aid changes into human blood. No symbolism about it Question Asker person. They've never been shy about it.
2006-09-08 22:14:39 · answer #1 · answered by PtolemyJones 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When will you stop being ignorant? DUHHHHHH!!!!
"Communion" is not actually done with meat and blood in the Christian community. We use bread and wine or juice.
THIS IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE!!!!!
The elements are symbols of a covenant made through Jesus Christ when He died on the Cross. "Eating" the sacrifice was understood as the way to take part in it, and recieve the blessings that come from it.
The suggestion that Christians use "actual" flesh and blood is very old also. It was a paranoid Roman accusation. They were afraid that Christians were using the babies they had thrown out (to die!) for some sort of weird "ritual", when in fact the Christians were rescuing the kids, and raising them as their own.
2006-09-09 05:32:02 · answer #2 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May I put a dog into this fight?
Just checked my Luther's Small Catechism--qq.296-328, on the "Sacrament of the Altar" (aka communion).
Q. 298 indicates that bread and wine are the visible means of this sacrament. Q. 299 reads: "What does Christ give us in, with, and under these visible means in the Lord's Supper? (A) In, with and under the bread Christ gives us His true Body; in, with, and under the wine He gives us His true blood. (Real Presence.)"
Q. 300, concerning why people should believe in the Real Presence, gives a number of citations, including 1 Cor. 11:27 ("Whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.").
Lutherans deny the need for an "unbloody sacrifice for the sins of the living and the dead," (q. 305), stating in the answer to this question that "Christ's one sacrifice made full atonement for all sins."
(Sounded pretty direct when I had to memorize all this, years ago. Didn't understand it then; don't understand it now. DO wish the OP's question had been phrased in a slightly less, uuh, blunt fashion, however.)
Am not perfectly certain and not about to dig through my religious reference books at this hour, but think that a few other Protestant groups (I'd bet on the Anglican/Episcopalians, for one bunch) may have doctrinal beliefs quite similar to the Lutherans, and also based on Scripture. (Any seminarians around here?)
NOW what??? Hardly think these mainline conservative Protestant groups would qualify as "cults", where their interpretations of the Bible can be dismissed as really out-of-line.
2006-09-09 06:08:42 · answer #3 · answered by samiracat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well yes but also a much bigger no...
The Bible and come to that matter the Torah and unfortunately can't speak about the Qu'aran but...these books are not meant as pure literal stories they are guidelines, parables, stories that are interpreted in the same way communion is representative...sometimes you need to look beyond a literal meanign to uncover what is meant and also meaning only comes with context
2006-09-09 05:13:04 · answer #4 · answered by Gilly S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't say they're lying... most probably just never thought of it as cannabiliam since it's just wine and a cracker. if there was some bloody meat or a finger freshly slaughtered they may think of it that way.... but you do make an interesting point. why eat someone? especially if you think them holy.
2006-09-09 06:11:07 · answer #5 · answered by Mustafa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It SYMBOLISES the body and blood of Jesus. Only Catholics believe that it is the body and blood of Jesus, which undermines the Christian faith, as Christ died once and for all and He made the complete sacrifice. Saying it is the body of Christ says that He has to continue making it.
2006-09-09 05:14:04 · answer #6 · answered by onlybygrace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come to think about it. thats true.
Wine = Blood
bread = people meat
2006-09-09 05:09:01 · answer #7 · answered by PØstapØc 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not all christians take communion.
2006-09-09 05:09:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, aren't you an ignorant one! I won't even give you an ANSWER to this most ridiculous QUESTION
2006-09-09 05:08:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
since when do we eat people?
2006-09-09 05:07:57 · answer #10 · answered by Obilee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋