Should communion wafers be made to taste like meat and wine made to taste like blood?

Question

That is what they are supposed to be, right? Would you be disturbed if they did?

Some denominations think that it is literally the body and blood of Christ.

MtnMan: I will enlighten you then. Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians think it is the literal body and blood of Christ. It's called literal transubstantiation - read about it.

Answer 1

No, because we use the very same elements that Christ used....unleavened wheat bread and wine made from grapes. God does the miracle of consecration with those very same elements. Just like He made Adam out of dirt, He uses common elements and changes them for His purpose and His glory. he does the same thing with common water in Baptism. We do not see the change. But it's there.

Answer 2

No I think you mean flesh and blood. Meat doesn't taste like flesh.
Flesh is more of a ....fleshy taste. Meat is more...meaty.

In the olden days, this was accomplished by human sacrifice.
This was changed when it was decided that it was a detriment to the church to kill off it's parishioners; ONE, because it was one less person to get an offering from and, TWO, because it was a weak selling point when one tried to increase one's flock.

As a result a compromise was made, hence the switch to wafers and wine, although even now some people just use grape juice or some cheaper substitute.

Answer 3

The wine is the blood of Christ and the communion wafer His body.
What has this to do with taste? If its taste you are after there are many eateries around. Communion is not about indulging the senses.

Answer 4

Oh Steve, thanks for getting back to your normal course! This is much more along your normal line of questioning. Very entertaining!

It is amazing the questions that come from a humanoid devoid of rational abilty! I think you are indeed one of the most enteraining of askers on Yahoo. You should get a special prize!

No Steve, I am not aware of any religion that "literally" accepts the sacrament "wafers" as you refer to them as the literal flesh and Blood of the Savior.

They are represenitive of His flesh and blood as was the first sacrament performed in his presence at what has become known as the last supper.

The ordanance of partaking of the sacrement, however, when officiated by those holding the Priesthood, having been given the proper authority, is a binding ordiance that when received by one who has prepaired him/herself through repentance, allows one to renew thier covenent of baptism which is to take upon them the name of the lord and promise to follow in his footsteps. By so doing they are cleansed of their sins and are able to begin a new. So while the elements are symbolic, the binding priesthood ordanance is vary real.

Maybe that is a point of imput that your chemical processes had not received.

I await your next output.

Thanks for your humor!

We love ya Steve.

Answer 5

No, communion wafers should not be meat and blood nor taste like it to accommodate our way of thinking. That is legalism and we are
to go into communion with the right attitude and faith. Our focus
should be on Christ alone not on our own ideas of rituals.

Answer 6

No. Because the body and blood of Christ is a metaphor for the physical and spiritual acception of Christ in your life and following his teachings. Not a literal canabalism reference.

Answer 7

I do not beleive that understanding the workings of God, discounts God's existance. I do beleive that true religion will stand the test of science and factual history and I do not fear it. This deserves a real answer based on real fact. The communion wafer and wine came about through ancient religous practice - not just jewish. In the begining, males were thought of as excess population, taking up 1/2 of the resources and conbributing only 20% of the food. There was no real war except against nature. Men had no need to build homes or plant gardens, having no children to proterct and nurture. Earliest home-building was done by mothers and farming was invented by mothers. This excess population cost around 30% of women's labor to maintain. Men were seen as highly expendable, in the hunt and in religion which developed to pacify the sacrifice's family. Grusome, isn't it. A couple of things happened next that changed all that. The value of men sky-rocketed and their status went from slave-like to even god-like in some societies. Soldiers were needed, meat in the diet went up, etc. Women could afford to feel compassion for and retain their sons. Society turned to token sacrificing; lambs, bulls, horses, asses, goats. etc, and entually turning to man-shaped bread (gingerbread men), moon-cakes, cressants, etc, especially on minor holidays. Human sacrifice was restricted to 2 times a year and victims wee older but not sickly - say 33. Reasonable assurance that old age or worms didn't kill him first but as long a life as was reasoanble. Also, they began to call more communities together so that each community didn't have to sacrifice men. The custom was perpetuated through fear of forgetting the old ways leading to castrophe - we are a superstitous specie, fearing what we cannot understand. In the most ancient customs - still remembered in cannibal societies - you are what you eat. Therefore if you declare a man to be a god and eat him - you stand a chance of becoming god-like - immortal. (By the way, they believed that women incarnated themselves in their children and had no need to do this.) So how do you feed millions of people with a single sacrifice? You take a slice of the flesh and add it to the millons of loaves of bread you will serve and a drop of blood to each keg of wine. And through this means we all part-take in becoming one with God. This is something Jesus saw as abominable and wanted to change as well as the laxing morality of his Roman-influenced people. Does this answer your question satisfactorally?

Answer 8

they experimented with scratch and sniff wafers in the early 50's but it never really caught on. as for a real meat taste, it depends on what kind of meat. lamb might work, since it is the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world. Sometimes it is too gamy though.

Answer 9

I don't understand why they don't taste like that anyway...considering they're supposed to be body and blood etc.
Despite what previous answerers say, in the Catholic religion this is not symbolic, it's literal.
(and unbelievably dumb)

Answer 10

Some might be disturbed yes, but it isn't really healthy to drink blood because our digestive systems can't really handel it and we could all get sick. Also it would be a waste because there are poeple who really really really need that blood.

So preferably, I think they should stay the way they are.