a second question about communion?

Question

ok yesterday i asked about communion and why its socially acceptable being a form of ritualistic cannibalism. many of the serious questions responded with. "we do it to remember him" or quoted the verse "...do this in rememberance of me..."

now my question here is, so you justify pretending to eat people by saying it will help you remember them. do you honestly believe eating people (or at least pretending to) will help you remember them? do you pretend to eat your deceased family so you can remember them too? or does it only work with Jesus...?

LOL jami, it makes more sense then your answer. i didnt say you eat people to remember the law.... my answers specifically said "in rememberance of ME" to remember him. please read next time.

Answer 1

Uh, Chippy, seriously. It's not like the early Christians actually carved up someone, it's always been used with bread and wine. We eat the Communion to remember the Last Supper, as Jesus did ask us. Now, if your grandmother died, and her favorite food was say, grapes, and you ate grapes to remember her by, are you eating her or grapes?

Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit comes down and enters the food, making it spiritual. Again, it is not physically Jesus, we don't carve a human and we are disgusted by the implication. Physically, it's bread, but spiritually, it's the SPIRITUAL body of Jesus (that which never was flesh and blood). It nurishes the soul, not the body. It's something that brings us spiritually closer to him, like eating grapes makes you feel closer to grandma.

You will never find any case of real Christians carving up some poor sap. We do not practice canibalism.

Answer 2

You have to go back to the ritual which preceded communion to understand what was being done. In the passover ritual, there were three slices of unleavened bread that the host of the meal would take, wrap, and stack. Then the middle piece was removed, broken, and part of it eaten. The rest hidden away. Anyone who found the hidden bread was granted a "reward" by the host.

When Jesus took the bread, he explained to his disciples that the loaf of bread that he was breaking and giving to them represented himself and his coming death on the cross. He would then be hidden away in the tomb, and resurrected so that any who found him could receive a reward. The "eating" is simple a symbol of receiving his action into yourselves.

Same with the wine, which in the Passover was drunk at both the beginning and the end of the meal. It was also a symbol of the blood of Christ that would be spilled. By drinking the wine, we again have a symbol of the accepting the sacrifice of Christ into our own lives.

Has nothing to do with cannibalism as given by Jesus. A particular Christian group has taken the ritual and altered it claiming that it is the eating of the physical body and blood of Christ. But that is not taught in the scriptures. Rather Jesus was showing that the bread and wine that had been eaten for over 1500 years by the Jews was a symbol of his coming sacrifice.

Answer 3

Rememberance = Honor , not a way to help with a memory defecit of some kind. OOOps , I killed that guy cause I FORGOT it was against the law ...now I'm going to EAT him to help me remember for next time ! Yeah your little argument makes a ton of sense

Answer 4

Symbolic Chip.
The Bible holds lots of symbolism- and we take communion in rememberance of Christ, to remind ourselves of what He did for us on the cross, and and how he suffered immensely. We drink grape juice and eat a small cracker at our communion....it is not actual flesh and blood- but it symbolizes the blood and flesh of Christ---so that we can always know the depths of His love and what God did for us, to remind us of that love and keep us humble unto God.

Answer 5

It's a remembrance of his sacrifice and a symbol. It's taking Christ's righteousness into ourselves.