Does anyone else think drinking the blood of Christ and eating his flesh (even if figurative) is just creepy and gross? And for those of you who go to Catholic churches where people drink out of the same cup - do you ever get grossed out thinking about backwash?
(This isn't meant to put down any practices, and for the record I've always thought it was gross even since I was a small child, raised Christian.)
2007-02-12 13:56:05 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
neither, THe Holy Eucharist gives eternal life.
the holy eucharist is not a "symbol" as many claim, but the literal body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ! In the old testament, the jews sacrificed a real lamb and then ate of the actual lamb (not a symbol) for temporal forgiveness of sins, in the new testament, Jesus became the perfect "lamb of God" , which was sacrificed at the cross and therefore many christians also eat of the actual Lamb (Jesus) in the eucharist, just like the Jews did in the old testament to signify, a shared covenant btwn. God and his people.
Jesus said, "I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh." John 6:51
2007-02-12 14:02:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Tastes like chicken!
Seriously though, holy communion in the Catholic Church involves partaking of the real and substantial body and blood of Jesus Christ in a sacramental manner ... it's not figurative at all ... and we're consuming the risen and incorruptible Christ ... not the long dead and decaying flesh of some ordinary man.
No one really knows what substance Christ's risen flesh is actually made of, although it is no doubt, heavenly.
And if God recommends it for our spiritual food, than he must know what he's doing.
In the end, it's really a matter of faith.
At least in terms of the concept, eating the body and blood of Christ isn't all that different than being nourished by mother's milk, as a child.
In both cases, one body receives necessary sustenance, in a totally personal, unique, and very beautiful way, from another.
Holy communion is also the source and summit of all Catholic worship, so to be Catholic is to truly "know" Jesus in the most intimate way possible.
Such personal, quality time with God himself, tends to make one forget about everythng else, and rather than being "gross" it's actually quite satisfying.
2007-02-12 14:30:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
How TRAGIC that a poor misguided catholic feels he must eat and drink the flesh and blood of our RISEN Saviour, (as if they actually COULD); to have communion and fellowship with the Saviour of mankind!
For those of us that are Bible believers, we understand that we have fellowship with Him through the Holy Spirit which we are given at the time of our new birth.
2007-02-13 06:13:42 · answer #3 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually drinking out of the same cup doesn't bug me as much as the pretending to be a cannibal does.
I also think crucifixes are horrible to look at. Under any other circumstances, nobody in their right mind would want to look at a sculpture of somebody being tortured to death.
2007-02-12 14:57:33 · answer #4 · answered by catrionn 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I had a hard time understand that symbolism as a child. And yes, the fact that someone else was touching the Jesus cracker/bread/whatever that was going in my mouth was absolutely disgusting. And don't even get me started about sharing drinks. Ugh! I don't only worry about backwash, I worry about getting herpes or something. I really feel sick thinking about the whole thing. Yet ANOTHER reason I don't go to church anymore!
2007-02-12 14:07:33 · answer #5 · answered by KS 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Actually, what Jesus meant was to remember what He has done for us. As we take the cup, it is to remind us of Jesus shedding His blood for us. And eating the bread is to remind us of His broken body. It was never meant to mean the actual eating of His flesh and blood. By the way, I am non-denominational. My church is Calvary Chapel. God bless!
2007-02-12 14:31:50 · answer #6 · answered by Tigger 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No and the reason I don't is because I don't think of it as the sluggish, red stuff that flows in our veins. I believe that before Adam and Eve sinned they were covered in a glory cloud of light and when they sinned that light left. If you speed blood up fast enough it becomes light. I believe that when our mortal bodies are changed to immortal that one of the factors in that change is our blood is returned to its original "speed" - resulting in light. I believe that is what we saw on the mount of transfiguration - the light (glory cloud) that resulted from Jesus Divine blood. The flesh part also to me is different. It is spiritual "manna" penetrated by pure light. I have no problem partaking of "light" and "manna." I am not Catholic so I have never been bothered with 'backwash' - we use individual servings.
2007-02-12 14:46:09 · answer #7 · answered by wd 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No I eat bread every day. Actually I always thought of it as taking Christ into your heart not symbolically eating him.
2007-02-12 14:01:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its purely a Dream, possibly deep down you sense compassion in direction of him which reason you to have this dream, possibly it would not recommend something in any respect, possibly you ate something or observed something on television that replace into comparable which reason you to think of roughly it, or possibly its potential that that's opposite of what going to take place.
2016-11-03 07:24:41 · answer #9 · answered by uday 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have wondered the same about the drinking/eating thing...scary!
2007-02-12 14:04:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋