and the bread that I shall give is my flesh for the life of the world" If you do not bother to go to Church, how do you change your bread into his flesh?
2007-02-12 11:51:04 · 13 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Church doesn't change you, God and his Word do...
The Church serves a very real and much needed pupose or i should say, purposes, but is not what changes us. Their are people now, and throughout history who have never been to a church, but I am sure at least a few were changed...
Don't get me wrong, I believe wholeheartedly that God's people should be in church every week, almost without fail. I do not want to mistaken church attendance for the greatest reason behind change.
2007-02-12 12:02:36 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope this helps. The bread is life , and Spirituality is that life
Flesh is sin. you asked how do you change your bread into flesh?
well it's by taking you blessings and using them for the wrong reasons or, living in sin. We all get a little piece of bread everyday
when we wake up in the morning in good health, with everything
working good , or just being alive. Turning that bread, the bread of life into a mess. That's a question you can answer by just asking your-self what do I do with my bread every day!
2007-02-12 12:05:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original protestant reformers knew full well that to break away fom the true church meant leaving the authentic sacraments ... and the real and substantial presence of Jesus Christ ... behind. But they did it anyway. So they continued the practice of communion in their own groups, and they taught that it was only symbolic ... which for THEM was absolutely true. But over time, the misinformed, the confused, and/or the devious have attempted to apply the faulty protestant faith traditions to the authentic practices of the one, true church ... leading many astray. Holy communion in the Catholic church has always been exactly what Jesus claimed ... his real and substantial body, blood, soul, and divinity ... made present for us on the altar at every Mass ... so we can personally experience the one time, once for all, eternal sacrifice of Calvary ... and become one with him. This is what a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ" means, to properly baptized and informed Catholics. And nothing less will do!
2016-05-24 02:59:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said: “Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every utterance coming forth through Jehovah’s mouth.” (Matthew 4:4) Notice, Jesus said that God is the source of “every utterance” vital to our life. Some questions only God can help us to answer. That insight is especially timely today, given the proliferation of theories about life’s purpose and the way to happiness. Bookstores devote entire sections to works that promise readers health, wealth, and happiness. Internet sites dealing specifically with happiness have been set up.
Nevertheless, human thinking in these areas is often misguided. It tends to play to selfish desires or to the ego. It is based on limited knowledge and experience, and quite often it rests on false premises. For instance, a growing trend among writers of self-help books is to base their ideas on the theory of “evolutionary psychology,” which assumes that human emotions are rooted in our supposed animal ancestry. The truth is, any effort to find happiness that is based on a theory that ignores the role of our Creator cannot be valid and will ultimately lead to disappointment.
2007-02-12 15:53:38 · answer #4 · answered by BJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bread and wine are only symbols of the new covenant with which we partake. If you want to eat his flesh and drink his blood as he suggested, we need to treat his words like bread, take them in, and do what he said to do!
2007-02-12 12:03:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a Catholic notion. The rest of the "Church" (Big "C" meaning body of Christ) does not believe that eating the bread is actually eating the flesh of Christ, it is only symbolic.
2007-02-12 12:00:56 · answer #6 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
interesting thing is that in the Jewish Seder meal at Passover, the father at the head of the table actually holds the Matzo bread up over his head and as he brings it down, he breaks it, that is what Jesus was referring to. The symbolism of the OT was fulfilled in Jesus as the Law was a shadow of things to come. For the Christian, Jesus is the passover and all scripture was to be filfilled.
2007-02-12 11:58:56 · answer #7 · answered by karakittle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is Catholic dogma. Christ taught his disciples to remember his death on the Passover, using bread and wine as SYMBOLS of his body and blood. Jesus is the Lamb of God, offered ONCE for all, not repeatedly forever.
2007-02-12 12:35:29 · answer #8 · answered by BC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means bread of life..the teaching that he gave us trough Bible..Man does not live by bread alone, but also by word that come from God (matthew 4:4)
2007-02-12 11:58:12 · answer #9 · answered by sexyeyes_bluescheeks 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I prefer my bread to be made from grain, not flesh.
2007-02-12 11:58:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋