Take this bread break it It was broken for you etc
This is symbolic canabilisim ...............why ?
2007-04-12 13:53:53 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So we'd know how to sacrifice innocent people in the future.
2007-04-12 13:56:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are a very rude person. The breaking of bread and the drinking of wine in communion is a very sacred sacrament to Christians. I have heard a lot of mocking and truly ignorant things on this site but this is the worst. To Christians, Jesus made the supreme sacrifice for all mankind and He offered His own precious life for ALL mankind. Communion is our way of remembering this sacrifice and the love Jesus demonstrated. If you don't understand something then at least be a bit respectful to others.
2007-04-12 21:06:44 · answer #2 · answered by angel 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its a funny way to look at it. But thats not what it really means.
Eating and breaking the bread is the symbol of his last dinner, and his life sacrifice. And when its said "The bread is Jesus's Body" Is not the symbol of his body, is the symbol of his person, his humanity, his words and teachings, and his spirit.
2007-04-12 20:59:18 · answer #3 · answered by Vice G. 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have to understand the dynamics of spiritual relationships to understand the symbolism. Remember the old idea of becoming 'blood' brothers? There is always an exchange of blood in some way, shape, or form. This is something along those lines, but more intense and with a non-physical being.
2007-04-12 21:06:45 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are in serious error here! The symbolic cannabilism you speak of is the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation where the priest offers up the bread and wine as the actual body and blood of Christ! This is a false teaching and inconsistent with the scriptures.
Jesus Christ instituted this sacrament as a remembrance of Him and for no other purpose.
The bread is symbolic of what Christ did on Calvary when His body was broken for the sins of those who would accept His sacrifice for them. The wine or grape juice used in communion is likewise a symbol of the blood He shed when He was brutally beaten and bled to purge those who would believe in HIm of their sins. It is strictly symbol and nothing more. The Greek words imply nothing else.
Jesus said, "This do IN REMEMBRANCE of me!" It reminds Christians of the terrible price He paid for our sins and the sins of the whole world, and should deepen our gratitude for God's love and mercy to undeserving sinners.
I hope this clarifies it for you.
2007-04-12 21:04:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is a symbolic ritual that predates christianity: the eating of the flesh of he man-god by only the worthy. So is the concept of substituting another (innocent) person to be executed for the crime/sins of another.
The history of christianity is nothing new - even Jusu (Jesus, Joshua) was a common name of the period. The religion merely supplanted the Roman Empire, thus it's staying power.
2007-04-12 21:07:28 · answer #6 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That bread symbolized his own sinless body of flesh. This he would give in behalf of the future life prospects of mankind, and on this occasion special attention is drawn to the life prospects that it makes possible of those who would be chosen to share with Jesus in the heavenly kingdom.
2007-04-12 21:05:32 · answer #7 · answered by Here I Am 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is only cannibalism to eat your own kind. Jesus is God. No man is God. We eat his spirit when we take communion. It is therefore not symbolic cannibalism. The word flesh and blood where references to the animal sacrifice that Jews practiced for the absolving of sins. Of course, it also refered to his personal sacrafice.
2007-04-12 21:04:43 · answer #8 · answered by wisemancumth 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Symbolic not cannibalistic. He is the Word of God- He was making a point that the Word must assimilated into you to be of eternal value. I assume you are referring to John ch 6. "If you continue in my word then are you my disciples indeed."
I hope you are not referring to trans-substantiation which teaches the bread and wine are literaly the Body of Christ which is error.
2007-04-12 21:03:38 · answer #9 · answered by copperhead89 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you take it literally, "Take this [bread] all of you and eat it, for it is my body and shall be given up to you" then sure it is cannibalism. But he had given up his body and spirit on the cross soon after. So taking a 'part of his body' really just means that he's a part of all Christians and that they should remember what he has done.
2007-04-12 21:02:34 · answer #10 · answered by Nadienne 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So that we, the sinners may consume something divine, and in doing so become more like God.
You aetheists patrol the 1NT4RW3B5 with such great intelligence. Nice typing, dude.
2007-04-12 20:59:51 · answer #11 · answered by Fred 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋