my Body and Blood symbolicly (I'm talking about the last supper) and in John 6 when Jesus says that whoever eats his Flesh and Blood will have eternal life and when the Jews question him and he once again says if you do not eat his Body and Blood you have no eternal life (instead of saying to the jews I just mean the bread represents my body)... why don't you take those words literally?
2006-11-13 14:03:18 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
most jews believe the old testament and not in Jesus or the new testament.
2006-11-13 14:08:13 · answer #1 · answered by jess g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do we take the bread and wine symbolically? Because Jesus did! He took the bread on the table, and broke it. He took the cup on the table and drank it. He did not cut out his flesh and let his disciples eat or drained off some blood to pass around in the cup. So Christians do take Jesus' words literally. Jesus literally meant that we take his words literally as symbols, which is what we all do. If Jesus meant for us to take the bread and wine as symbols of the body and blood, why do want to do any other thing?
2006-11-13 14:08:02 · answer #2 · answered by Seraph 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians forget concerning the Council of Nicea, the position the Emperor Constantine presided over a gathering to settle on no matter if Jesus replaced into divine or a prophet, etc.. Constantine drowned his spouse in boiling water, killed his personal son, and ordered that any one which had the "previous" version of the Bible after the Council must be finished instant, which quite somewhat explains why the Bible could not be taken actually. yet another excuse is that that is been translated into diverse languages the position meanings are lost in translation, and the early copies of the Bible were not continually good, so if a mistake replaced into made it replaced into "the will of God" (perhaps papyrus wasn't low priced!) so the actual literal words are likely lost to us perpetually. It replaced into purely about one hundred fifty years in the past that the literal interpretation of the Bible began entering style, and oddly this does not look to make the obtrusive contradictions make this phenomenon any a lot less well-known to those people. Many will inform you that the Bible replaced into meant to be interpreted actually, yet they don't recognize their heritage in the journey that they make that declare.
2016-11-29 03:02:41 · answer #3 · answered by marconi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple logic, PLEASE!
At the Last Supper, Jesus said "This is my body...this is my blood..." while presenting the bread and wine. Symbolic?
Yet as He said those words to the Apostles, He was still alive in full flesh and blood format. Alive, breathing, and speaking to them personally.
Symbolic!
2006-11-13 14:36:03 · answer #4 · answered by Bob L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was telling his disciples and us that when we take Communion that when we take the bread, we are to remember the breaking of his body on the Cross at the crucifixion. And when we drink the cup, we are to remember the spilling of the blood when the Soldier took the spear and pierced his side.
If you read in Hebrews it says that without the shedding of blood there can be no remission of sins.
2006-11-13 14:10:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't just bread that saves it is the body and blood of Jesus that saves. The bread is a picture of the body and the wine is a picture of the blood. You are illustrating that you have received the sacrifice when you take communion. "This do in remembrance of me..."
God Bless
Jett Blackford
2006-11-13 14:07:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If Jesus fulfilled the Passover celebration in this "symbolic" way, than God must have also meant for the Israelites to apply only "symbolic" blood to the door posts of their Egyptian dwellings, and only "symbolically" eat the flesh of the lambs they were ordered to symbolically slaughter.
It follows then, that the first born of the Egyptians were only symbolically killed by the angel of death, and Pharoah only symbolically let the Israelites go.
The Red Sea was only symbolically parted.
The Israelites merely symbolically wandered around in the desert for 40 symbolic years.
Then God only symbolically conveyed to the Israelites the symbolic title to the Promised Land.
Later (symbolically of course) in the fullness of time, God symbolically took on flesh and symbolically became a man.
And of course, it follows that Jesus didn't really need to actually die on the cross for our symbolic sins.
He must have only "symbolically" redeemed us ... from a merely symbolic devil, shedding only symbolic blood.
And those of us who demonstrate symbolic faith in a symbolic Jesus will be symbollically conducted to heaven when we symbolically die.
But those who symbolically foul things up, will go to a symbolic hell.
Enough of this nonsense!
The authentic Eucharist, the real and substantial body, blood, soul, and divinity of the risen and glorified Jesus Christ, is not dead meat, but a true form of the real and palpable presence of God himself, miraculously made sustenance for us, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
The authentic Eucharist, as confected in and through a valid Catholic Mass, by a properly ordained Catholic priest, remains the only certain antidote to eternal death, and may well constitute the greatest test of a Christian's faith.
There's NOTHING symbolic about it!
2006-11-13 16:11:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No not literally but symbolically. Otherwise they would have been serving him on a platter if they took it literally.
Since He is the Son of the living God. who gave us the Animals and plants of the Earth for the healing of the nations. You are giving thanks for these gifts that sustain our bodies and souls. Which are also Gods body and soul as God made the Souls of all that was and will be from its own body. a full circle of life and death. just as the trinity is a full cycle of life and death.
2006-11-13 14:16:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Jesus talked in parables, a good part of the time as symbolism. He thought that we as humans, were smart enough to figure out what He was saying.
2006-11-13 14:08:14 · answer #9 · answered by pupcake 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know any bible students who do not understand that there are many manners of speech in the bible; symbolism, metaphor, similie, parable, and yes, literal. This is not literal, it is symbolic of Jesus' blood and body, when we take communion.
2006-11-13 14:07:24 · answer #10 · answered by Esther 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋