Is Roman Catholic Communion Real?

Question

Are the things which are ingested during Roman Catholic communion really the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ?

1. If they are:

Can the DNA code for Jesus be ascertained from an examination of the substances? Can his race, skin color, eye color be discovered? Can it be discovered if he were only one-half human and one-half God? Did he have predispositions to any genetic diseases or abnormalities?

2. If they are not:

Why do you need a priest to "change" these things into the flesh and blood of Jesus if they in fact do not change at all? Why can't one commune with his God simply by eating Triscuits and drinking wine?

A reader said:

"The real basis for the belief in the Real Presence comes from John 6:51-58. "My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Unless you eat of my flesh and drink of my blood you shall not have life within you."

If Jesus said this, i.e. if the Bible is not lying, and your Roman Catholic priest is serving up something during Communion that is not easily identifiable as human flesh and blood then he must not be a priest! He is a fraud.

Answer 1

+ First some background information:

At the Last Supper, Jesus said, “Take this bread. It is my body.” Then he said, “Take this and drink. This is my blood. Do this in memory of me.”

Catholics believe this was the First Eucharist, that through some miracle the bread and wine actually became the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

Catholics reenact the Last Supper during every Mass, where God, acting through the priest, changes the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

This is a great sacrament of thanksgiving and unity of Catholics.

+ Now to answer your questions:

Yes, the Eucharist (Holy Communion) is real.

Yes, the things which are ingested during the Eucharist are really the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ.

1. No. Jesus was completely man and completely God. Even if you had the body of Jesus Christ just after His death on the cross, you could not ascertain the DNA of God the Son.

The most visible abnormalities of Jesus Christ was the ability to love the God with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his mind and to love his neighbor as himself.

2. Because the answer to question 1 is "yes" this question does not apply.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

In spite of what other misinformed Catholics have posted those who are faithful to the Roman Catholic Church believe it to be the Real Presence of Jesus. Most who are not Catholic do not believe it to be real. This is really the biggest difference between the Catholic Church and many Protestant Traditions.

Although the words used at Mass come from the descriptions of the Last Supper. The real basis for the belief in the Real Presence comes from John 6:51-58. "My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Unless you eat of my flesh and drink of my blood you shall not have life within you."

Scripture goes on to say that many of Jesus disciples left because this teaching was too hard to accept. Don't you think Jesus would have clarified if He was speaking figuratively so that He wouldn't have lost a large number of disciples over this. I believe that Jesus meant precisely what he said. He knew that people would reject Him because of this teaching, but He had to teach it because it was the truth.

Answer 3

Yes, they are.

1. God doesn't change the properties of the wine and bread, they still have wheat and all, but they're still God. The miracle is not in that the wine and bread change to some other material, that's not that cool, it's that they actually become God that makes it amazing.

2. Priests don't change it, they're just tools, basically, and they can be normal people, but they've still been chosen to perform the task that Christ said to do at the last supper, "Do this in remembrance of me." He didn't say, "You guys can't do this because you're only people, so don't try."

You can't do it with triscuits because... they Jesus did it with bread, not triscuits.

P.S. For all you Catholics (I am not even Catholic, just know what I'm talking about) read your friggin caterchism, "Roman Catholicism" is 100% clear on the fact that at mass the bread and wine are the REAL body and blood of Jesus. Most people don't know that, but if your Catholic, that's what separates you from Anglicans and Lutherans.

Answer 4

From a Lutheran Protestant standpoint..........
In the Sacrament of the Altar our Lord and Savior is continually
distributing to us the body and blood of the sacrifice
He made for us, the sacrifice by which He paid for the sins of
the entire world. Thus, receiving His body and blood, we
receive forgiveness, life and salvation. Flowing from these tremendous treasures of God’s mercy are the love,peace and
hope that He gives us in His Supper,and the ability and desire
to do God’s will,living in love and harmony with others.

We do not try to explain how Jesus is present under the
bread and wine of the Lord’s Supper,rather we believe,teach,
confess and rejoice that He is present.We Lutherans let the words
of Jesus stand without arguing about their possibility,or trying
to explain how they are true.As Luther put it so clearly,“We
maintain that the bread and the wine in the Supper are the true
body and blood of Christ”(SA III.6).Everyone who communes
receives into their mouths the body and blood of Jesus Christ,
whether they believe it or not,be they worthy or unworthy.
Jesus’Word is sure and certain. The Holy Spirit gives us
faith to trust in and believe Jesus’words,“Given and shed for
you for the forgiveness of sins.” Faith in Christ’s promise is
what makes us worthy to receive His Supper.Christ’s words of
institution retain their validity and efficacious power and thus,
by virtue of these words,the body and blood of Christ are truly
present,distributed and received.

Answer 5

I am no longer a practicing catholic but having grown up in a strict catholic household, I can tell you are missing the point. The body and blood of Christ is used figuratively. The ceremony of the Eucharist is done in rememberance of Christ's life and the last supper. When you partake in communion, you ponder on the mystery and the life of Christ.

The "change" is merely asking for a blessing from God, changing unblessed food to the Holy Eucharist. It's merely a souped up and church version of saying the blessing/grace before you eat.

You do commune with God when you eat triscuits and drink wine if you say grace before your meal.

Answer 6

the character of communion is to be in commonplace union with the physique, the church. The mass itself isn't just about you, that is approximately all human beings, and for people who think of the have have been given to accomplish a little ingredient which via using the very language of your posture separates your self from the congregation, you in a fashion separate your self from the communion. Veneration is maximum serious, notwithstanding attempt to stay in communion with the congregation. in the event that they stand interior the path of the consecration, stand, in the event that they kneel, kneel. in the journey that your priest asks you to no longer kneel on the same time as you purchased, do no longer kneel. once you need to venerate in that way, spend a on the same time as in adoration kneeling in the previous than the sacrament after mass.

Answer 7

OK. It is not literally a chunk of his body and a cup of his blood. Is that even possible? It is to show what we believe. We aren't just snacking and getting drunk. It is in most Christian churches. Christian, Methodist, Catholic...
Communion is our way of...honoring, if you will, the last supper with Jesus dispels.
"He took this bread, gave it to his dispels and said, take this all of you, and eat from it, this is my body, which will be given up for you..."
We receive salvation, as I think I saw someone put.

Answer 8

Jesus explained this in john Chapter 6. This is a spiritual thing, not literal. The Catholic church takes this literal only because of ignorance of the Scriptures. Read John chapter 6.

Answer 9

1) Define 'real'.
For those who believe, of course they are real! But if you want to test them, then you do not believe! Besides, do you really think his God-nature was a genetic thing?

It is not their physical nature that is being changed, but their metaphysical nature (which cannot, of course, be tested by physical means). And, yes, anyone can learn to do this - - - but even Christians need not eat or drink anything to commune with their God, they only need to gather in J's name and shut up! The important part was and is remembering the teaching-stories of your religion!!!

Answer 10

It does change into it in a mystic way within us as we take it.

No the DNA does not change, and we already know his race, his skin color and the such.
And we already know he was fully human in body, but his spirit was God

We need a priest because they are the ones ordained to do so. And it is a much more speical act.