I have heard that the reason only some people witnessed the ressurection was because those were the people that had eaten some of Jesus' body. Only the ones who had eaten some of his flesh could see him afterwards.The person who told me this, who is my therapist, also said that the reason "the holy mass" is called that is because after they took the body down from the cross a big mass of people rushed up and ate it.
2006-11-18 05:42:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Prominent in the Gospels is the mention of Jesus' intact body being respectfully treated and interred by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. Jesus' body was not literally consumed by animals or humans.
(John 19:38-40) Joseph from Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus but a secret one out of his fear of the Jews, requested Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. Therefore he came and took his body away. 39 Nicodemus also... 40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it up with bandages with the spices
Consumption of blood has been forbidden since Noah's time, and both cannibalism and abuse of blood were forbidden by the Jewish Mosaic Law. Since the Mosaic Law was not abolished until after Jesus' death; the ceremony mentioning "flesh" and "blood" which Jesus instituted would not have been understood with any hint of literalness by the apostles (See Matt 26; Mark 14; Luke 22).
At the "Last Supper", Jesus was preparing his disciples for his departure from earth. He was teaching them to use the bread and wine as symbols of Christ's sacrificial offering of his own flesh and blood; these symbols would be featured at future observances of that "Memorial" celebration.
The most significant "Memorial" one could observe is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death; even today that annual commemoration is still called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".
(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”
(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”
Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Apparently Jesus Christ established the occasion to supersede the Jewish Passover, which occurs after sunset on the 14th of Nisan (a month of the Jewish calendar).
(Luke 22:14-16) At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And [Jesus] said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Sadly, it is only a minority of professed Christians who follow the BIBLICAL pattern for the Last Supper which was established by Christ himself. Sadly, most of Christendom ignores Christ's celebration and instead follow unrelated human traditions which purport to honor Christ, but in ways unconnected with what Jesus Christ established.
Like the former Passover, those Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have also done so on the date corresponding to Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "fourteen-ers"
There are fundamental differences between the Memorial which Christ Jesus instituted and the so-called "Easter" which Christendom adopted from pagan worship of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre (or Oestre). While most Easter celebrations merely repackage pagan fertility festivals and concentrate on eating, decorating, and frivolity, the Last Supper focuses on the value of Christ's sacrifice and the sober obligation of Christianity.
(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”
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2006-11-20 20:50:30 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jesus did no longer handle the disciples' literal recognize-how (and incredulity) with the aid of fact there became into no longer something to maximum appropriate. Many disciples abandoned Jesus that day, yet others remained hassle-free. Jesus practiced what he preached by shaking the dirt from his sandals. Jesus became into talking actually approximately ingesting his flesh, yet he became into no longer speaking approximately cannibalism. Cannibalism is ingesting lifeless flesh, yet Jesus defined that he's living bread. he's living, no longer lifeless, and his flesh is our bread, analogous to the manna that fed the Hebrews wandering contained in the barren region. In Holy Communion, Christians contained in the Catholic and Orthodox church homes consume the physique and drink the blood of the living God. God isn't harmed. Cheers, Bruce
2016-10-04 02:47:25 · answer #2 · answered by grumney 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your therapist is a nut case! They have no idea of what they are speaking of. There were many disciples that saw Jesus after the Resurection at different times, they are recorded in the Scriptures. Jesus walked among them for 40 days before he Ascended into Heaven. At the last supper, Scripture only indicates the 12 Apostles to be present, but the body of believers was bigger than that. Mary for instance saw him afterward, but there is no indication of her being at the Last Supper.
2006-11-18 05:52:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people will have opinions but how about this?
Read up the Bible and see what was said. The Last Supper where Jesus talked about "My Body" and"My Blood" was done using symbolic items, bread and wine. He said THAT was his body, not literally. It is still followed till today.
Also, not only biblical but historical records show his body was buried for three days AFTER the crucifixion. How is that possible if there was no body (bad pun, I'm sorry) to bury?
Secondly, if people generally have problems with cannibalism, what makes you think Jesus' followers were any different?
Thirdly, I don't know about you but regardless of my belief, I'm not really interested in eating a body that has not only been nailed but was beaten up and bloody. Remember the crucifixion was a PUBLIC affair. ALL his followers saw Him go through this. I wouldn't even be able to eat any meat if I really saw them getting slaughtered... (unless they're all butchers...). Also, His followers loved the guy. Would you rush to eat your loved one especially if you saw Him go through so much torture? I'd be mortified if anyone suggested the idea.
Fourthly, historic accounts claim He showed Himself to more than two thousand people. That's a tall order for just one body. Also, many people who have seen and HAVEN'T seen Jesus went through severe death for what they believed in. Would you die for someone you ate?
Lastly, if I'm not mistaken, general psychological profiles of people who kill mercilessly, much less eat people, do not show them being manipulated by images of the victims after death. In fact, most of them have already turned off their consciences too much to care for their victims to that extent.
Good luck finding the truth and God bless.
2006-11-18 06:00:21 · answer #4 · answered by Studier Alpha 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Man, the things people say in the name of religion is just shameful!! There are some who will tell you that the "holy sacraments" used during mass actually turn into the body and blood of Christ. This is unreasonable and irrational. It's bread and wine and nothing else. During the last passover meal that Jesus eat with his apostles (minus Judas Iscariot), he broke bread, gave thanks and said "this means my body" not this IS my body. Then he take the wine and said ""This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood which is to be poured out in your behalf" not this IS my blood.
It's interesting that Paul, in his letters to the congregations of Asia Minor, told them to be cautions of those who would change and pervert the true teaching of the Christ.
2006-11-18 05:58:42 · answer #5 · answered by Lynn K 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The notion that anyone ever did or ever does actually eat the flesh or drink the blood of Jesus is totally false. Those people who have been brought up in a religious tradition that promotes this false doctrine like to quote Jesus in this passage.
John 6:53 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
When you isolate that text from the rest of what Jesus had to say it seems to say that Jesus is talking about actually engaging in what amounts to cannibalism. But when you look at the whole context of that speech you see that Jesus was speaking of the spiritual truth that when a person believes on his atoning sacrifice that they will receive the gift of eternal life.
John 6:60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?" 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Do you take offense at this? 62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
Get it? The flesh doesn't do anything, Jesus was talking about spiritual realities. It is like when Jesus made this statement a little further on.
John 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'"
If you isolate that text it looks like people would have a river flowing out of their chest or something. But the author goes on to explain, since Jesus apparently didn't in this case...
39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
2006-11-18 06:01:20 · answer #6 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You sure come up with brilliant stories! Think about this...When he came back all his body parts were intact. else only the part the disciple ate should be missing, dont you think?
2006-11-18 05:48:15 · answer #7 · answered by Mock-mast 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
NO! Get a new therapist. Or maybe you took him to literally.
2006-11-18 05:45:08 · answer #8 · answered by robert2020 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Not true in my mind.
2006-11-18 05:45:04 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
someone has their facts wrong, this is certain.
2006-11-18 06:37:22 · answer #10 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋