2006-10-26 08:29:47 · 19 answers · asked by Agnostic Messiah 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't know. I always saw it as symbolic cannibalism myself.
2006-10-26 08:32:47 · answer #1 · answered by Maria Isabel 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You will have hit a nerve.
Because of the teachings of the church, many accused Christians of being cannibals.
But now you'll have debate between Catholics and Protestants.
Catholics believe that through a miracle performed during the Mass, the yeast-less wafer has become the Body of Christ.
Protestants, however, believe the wafer (often broken matzos) are symbolic of Christ's Body.
2006-10-26 15:40:28 · answer #2 · answered by Bob L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you read Scripture, you will find that Christ did, in fact, mean eating his flesh and drinking his blood. He stated 4 times in one section that unless you eat of his flesh and drink of his blood "you will have no life in you" The people he was speaking to were repulsed and left. The apostles were even questioning him on this matter. But he insisted it was true. Even on the night of the Last Supper, he transfigured the bread and wine to his body and blood.
We are not eating human flesh and drinking human blood for pleasure or physical sustinence. It's sustinence for our soul. It is the body and blood. We are not cannibals, we are christians. If it was symbolic, he would have said, this represents my body and blood, not is my body and blood.
2006-10-26 15:53:18 · answer #3 · answered by Mysteriana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eating the body is symbolism. Its not real. The night befor Christ was crusified the deciples ate of his body....does that mean they were bitting him? NO because its a symbol!!
2006-10-26 16:06:36 · answer #4 · answered by kissedwithpeace 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's the real body of Christ.
2006-10-26 15:35:14 · answer #5 · answered by Chris J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not as clever as you think. People were accusing Christians of this way back in Paul's days.
And no, because we eat a SYMBOL of Christ's body.
2006-10-26 15:34:00 · answer #6 · answered by cnm 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who told that? Man the body of Jesus you are not eating, you are eating the Symbol what Jesus himself named as his Body! Read th New Testament then you will know
2006-10-26 15:41:26 · answer #7 · answered by repentance 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because your agnostic doesn't mean you can be racist towards religion. Why don't you stop being ignorant and actually read what you claiming to know, sence you know your better and all. Enlighten me to all your infinite wisdom, I can tell it's something that would truly lift my spirits to a place where I am no longer ignorant of the injustice of prejudgements, that you can say one sentence to cleanse my mind of all this worlds confusion, that you can get your head out of your anal cavities so you can better read and speak the word of all agnosticism without the taint of bullshit on your own breath.
2006-10-26 15:37:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Cannibalism is eating the flesh of dead people. Jesus is alive. Also, the Eucharist is under the form of bread and wine.
2006-10-26 15:32:55 · answer #9 · answered by Stanbo 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You're not really eating the body of christ, but Catholics think you are.
2006-10-26 15:37:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋