Christians (specifically Catholics) = Cannibals?

Question

As a former Catholic and Christian, I've always wondered something about the Eucharist.

Now, being a Catholic, you would (and SHOULD) readily admit that when you receive communion, you are, in fact, consuming the body and blood of Christ. You ARE eating his flesh and drinking his blood.

Now. Don't try to tell me that Jesus wasn't human. Again as a Catholic, that's what you believe. Jesus was both divine and human.

Prove to me this isn't cannabalism and should be treated as such?

Jesus is watching me? Possibly, but that doesn't stop me from being curious, does it?

Also: This is a question for Catholics. I know most other denominations/faiths have different beliefs on how they view the eucharist.

Every time you walk down the aisle, the priest/administer tells you "Body/Blood of Christ."

You answer with "Amen," an agreement between the two of you that you DO believe that you are consuming the blood and body of Christ.

And. Thanks to all the people who gave me -useful- answers. Instead of the 'you questioned my faith so God shuns you' response.

Keep 'em coming. :)

Answer 1

Cannibalism is humans killing and eating humans.

At the express command of the Jesus Christ, the second person of the Holy Trinity, the Son of God, humans eating the Body and Blood of the Son of God miraculously transformed from bread and wine is not cannibalism. [No humans were harmed during the making of this miracle]

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.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Catholics should also understand that we are consuming the GLORIFIED and RISEN body and blood of Jesus Christ ... not just dead human flesh.

Once that's understood, one can easily make the logical jump from dead meat and cannibalism, to heavenly sustenance.

Think of the body and blood of Christ as the real, substantial, physical manifestation of God's sanctifying presence, and you're just about there.

Answer 3

never confuse roman catholicism with Jesus Christ.

The people are decent folks, but the clergy are truly out to lunch, all the way to the pope.

You say you are a "former" catholic, so you don't believe this stuff anyway. Why does anyone believe this transubstantiation baloney? It's religious hookey pookism. It is unbiblical and simply nonsense.

Wake up catholics, the word pope, the word nun, the word catholic, on and on are unbiblical.

tell the pope to shove his religion and the devils he recruits to molest children.

1st timothy says that "forbidding to marry" and "abstaining from meats" is a "doctrine of demons" but your popes make it LAW. Every predominently RC nation is POOR. The gov'ts are corrupt, and the priests are treated as gods. Doesn't that tell you something? Pope means father, Jesus said call no man father.

I'll prolly get some more thumbs down now...

Answer 4

I don't recall Jesus asking his disciples to tear flesh off his body or biting into his jugular a la vampire drinking blood. No. He took bread and called it His body, and he took wine and called it his blood.
Hey, you're not the only one thinking Catholics are cannibals; the Jews in Jesus' time thought he was asking them to become cannibals when he told them to eat His flesh and drink His blood (it's in the gospels).

Answer 5

The earliest Christians were accused of the same thing. Why? Because they were Catholics.

In John Chapter 6, the disciples that left Jesus believed that Jesus meant what He said, but they did not have faith. You are like them.

The Catholic Church teaches what Jesus taught about the Eucharist, so if you have a problem with that then you have a problem with Jesus. I would suggest that you read the writings of the early Church fathers.

Answer 6

I have to smile. People can get so far off base. We are to take communion (the bread and the wine) to remember Jesus and what He did for us. It is not literally eatting his body. Symbolic. Read I Corinthians 11: 23-30.

Answer 7

There are distinctions. Cannibalism is practiced upon the unwilling dead, but Christ is alive, and voluntarily gives Himself to us as He did upon the cross. Cannibalism is also often about absorbing the consumed's power into one's body. In the Eucharist, those who consume the Body of Christ are incorporated into Christ's body, the Church.

Answer 8

first off thank "jiggy fish" for his . . . "insightful?" answer. People like him really contribute a lot, and with a user name like that, who would say otherwise?

We Catholics believe the Eucharist is truely the body and blood of Christ, but if you tested it, it wouldn't come out positive for human blood. So how does that work?:

When the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ, why do they still look and taste like bread and wine?

In the celebration of the Eucharist, the glorified Christ becomes present under the appearances of bread and wine in a way that is unique, a way that is uniquely suited to the Eucharist. In the Church's traditional theological language, in the act of consecration during the Eucharist the "substance" of the bread and wine is changed by the power of the Holy Spirit into the "substance" of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. At the same time, the "accidents" or appearances of bread and wine remain. "Substance" and "accident" are here used as philosophical terms that have been adapted by great medieval theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas in their efforts to understand and explain the faith. Such terms are used to convey the fact that what appears to be bread and wine in every way (at the level of "accidents" or physical attributes - that is, what can be seen, touched, tasted, or measured) in fact is now the Body and Blood of Christ (at the level of "substance" or deepest reality). This change at the level of substance from bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is called "transubstantiation." According to Catholic faith, we can speak of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist because this transubstantiation has occurred (cf. Catechism, no. 1376).

This is a great mystery of our faith—we can only know it from Christ's teaching given us in the Scriptures and in the Tradition of the Church. Every other change that occurs in the world involves a change in accidents or characteristics. Sometimes the accidents change while the substance remains the same. For example, when a child reaches adulthood, the characteristics of the human person change in many ways, but the adult remains the same person—the same substance. At other times, the substance and the accidents both change. For example, when a person eats an apple, the apple is incorporated into the body of that person—is changed into the body of that person. When this change of substance occurs, however, the accidents or characteristics of the apple do not remain. As the apple is changed into the body of the person, it takes on the accidents or characteristics of the body of that person. Christ's presence in the Eucharist is unique in that, even though the consecrated bread and wine truly are in substance the Body and Blood of Christ, they have none of the accidents or characteristics of a human body, but only those of bread and wine.


Does the bread cease to be bread and the wine cease to be wine?

Yes. In order for the whole Christ to be present—body, blood, soul, and divinity—the bread and wine cannot remain, but must give way so that his glorified Body and Blood may be present. Thus in the Eucharist the bread ceases to be bread in substance, and becomes the Body of Christ, while the wine ceases to be wine in substance, and becomes the Blood of Christ. As St. Thomas Aquinas observed, Christ is not quoted as saying, "This bread is my body," but "This is my body" (Summa Theologiae, III q. 78, a. 5).

Answer 9

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Answer 10

In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints, we have the sacrament and have the bread and water, the bread we take in remembrance of the body of the Son, Jesus Christ and the water is in remembrance of Christ's blood that was shed for us.
Remember that we are doing it in REMEMBRANCE of that which Jesus Christ did for us and that when we partake of it, that we promise to try to live more Christ like.