2007-05-20 03:36:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Protestants believe that taking communion is done as a symbolic representation of Jesus' body and blood being broken and spilled. It is a time of remembrance of what Jesus, our Christ did upon the cross for all. Protestants will often "break" the crackers into pieces before offering them and the "wine" is usually just grape juice.
Catholics believe that with the Priest's blessings that the wafer (That is not usually broken, but offered whole) and that the wine are magically turned into the real physical body and real blood of Jesus, therefore you have eaten His flesh and drank his blood.
2007-05-20 03:42:54 · answer #1 · answered by SelfnoSelf 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Consubstantiation is the view that the bread and wine of Communion / the Lord's Supper are seen to spiritually be the flesh and blood of Jesus, but yet the bread and wine are still actually only bread and wine (Protestant belief.) In this way, it is different from Transubstantiation where the bread and the wine are believed to actually become the body and blood of Jesus. Transubstantiation is a Roman Catholic dogma that stretches back to the earliest years of the Church while Consubstantiation is relatively new, arising out of the Protestant Reformation. Consubstantiation essentially teaches that Jesus is "with, in, and under" the bread and wine - but is not literally the bread and wine.
The dogma of Transubstantiation is central to the Roman Catholic Mass.
2007-05-20 04:34:16 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Holy Communion is the Literal Presence Of Christ .
The Bread Is His Body & the Wine Is His Blood.
This is what Christians believed right since the very beginning, & many had been martyred for this during the pagan Roman persecutions.
2007-05-20 03:46:07 · answer #3 · answered by clusium1971 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For most of the protestants, communion is an act of remembrance only... for RCs it is supposed to actualy have some physical meaning... RCs believe the bread and wine actualy turn into the Flresh and Blood of Christ.
2007-05-20 03:44:40 · answer #4 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As Catholics we believe that it is a key to our faith. We do not believe that the bread and wine is symbolic we believe that it is His body and blood. This may seem barbaric, but at the Last Supper Jesus did not say "This is my body, symbolically" it is one of our seven sacraments and it is received at every Mass. Protestants generally regard it as less of a necessity and for some Churches it is a once in a while event, others do not do it at all.
Amazing how most fundies claim the entire Bible is literal, but this part is symbolic.
Not to sound condescending, but the poster ahead of me is completely incorrect.
2007-05-20 03:49:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
most Protestant churches have communion just once in a while i am not sure when but i believe catholics to it every Sunday... i think...
2007-05-20 03:43:42 · answer #6 · answered by panda 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics believe that the bread and wine are literally God's body and blood. Protestants believe that it is a symbolic representation of God's body and blood.
2007-05-20 03:43:08 · answer #7 · answered by Gordon Freeman 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The last supper is one part of the NT that Catholics take literally and Protestants don't, not even Fundamentalists:
"Take and eat, this is my body..."
"This is my blood..."
"Do this in remembrance of me..."
Catholics believe do THIS means it will become body and blood just as Jesus said.
2007-05-20 03:42:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catholics believe the eucharist is the body and the wine is the blood of Jesus Christ.
Protestants do not.
2007-05-20 03:40:49 · answer #9 · answered by datwhittier 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
protestants: grape juice and goldfish crackers
Catholics: wine and.... stuff... thats made only for Holy communion
2007-05-20 04:30:14 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋