is communion a form of sacrificial canibalism?

Question

bread = body
wine = blood
wtf.....

Answer 1

wow the guy on top of me just said a bunch of stuff lol
but it means that the bread is jesus body, the wine is his blood and he said that because that was a day before they were going to hang him on the corss but i dont know why he had to make bread his body or wine his blood?

Answer 2

It's so sad, and so infuriating, that Catholics are accused of "worshipping bread." Yes, the Blessed Sacrament looks like bread and tastes like bread. If one were to walk into a traditional Catholic Mass , one might think Catholics are crazy as they kneel down when the priest holds up what looks like a "piece of bread" for them to adore.

--- but the Creator of the Universe said that it is not bread but His very Flesh, which is meat indeed. What God Almighty, Who made the earth and the moon and stars says, is. Once God, through the priest, has changed the bread and wine into the Body and Blood, they should never, ever be referred to as "bread and wine"; they are the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ Jesus. In other words, we don't worship bread; we worship Christ!

It takes the eyes of faith to "see" that the apparent mere bread and wine are truly the Body and Blood of Christ; it takes an intellectual assent to divine revelation, not emotional "feelings" . Sometimes one might struggle to "feel" that what appears to be "bread" and "wine" are what He said they are, especially at many modern Masses during which the Body and Blood are so often treated with irreverence. The proper response to doubt, though, is, "Lord, I believe! Help Thou mine unbelief!" (Mark 9:24), not mockery.

Bottom line: one either reads Scripture, listens to the Church, and intellectually assents to what they've taught for two millennia, in spite of one's "feelings," in spite of the accidents (the appearances) of "bread" and "wine," or one doesn't. To those who not only don't, but feel compelled to mock, well, mock on. They scorned Jesus, too. Just know that you are in bad company; many walked away in the 1st century, too, when hearing these "hard sayings":

John 6:58, 60, 66
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever... Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?... From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

2 John 1:7
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

Answer 3

I am more interested in your name.
Lucifer's_martyrs
In case you do not know.
Lucifer = Morning Star, Son of the Dawn
Son of the Dawn = Son of a Young Mother
Rev.22:16= Jesus= Root and offspring of David = Joseph descendant of David= Mary the Young Mother = Jesus = The Bright Morning Star = Lucifer/Jesus= many souls have died as martyrs for their belief in you.

Answer 4

My Italian ex-wife used to say that she wanted to eat and drink me while we were having sex...safe to say that I'm still in one piece.

Figurative, illustrative and passionate language from the Son of God, about to be tortured and die to redeem the world from the rebellion and deceit of Adam and Eve...read the scriptures in context and do a little homework, please.

Answer 5

Yes.

Answer 6

No - it symbolizes what Christ die for us - die for our sins. We remember how he paid the ultimate price for us.

Answer 7

No.

Answer 8

Good question. The Jews and many of Jesus' disciples took him to say just that. In fact, some of Jesus' left him because this is what they understood him to say when he was talking about himself. It was only those who understood with spiritual minds that stayed, realizing that it was not the case of canibalism, but something much greater and eternal.

In John 6: 26: Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. 27: Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you; for on him has God the Father set his seal." 28: Then they said to him, "What must we do, to be doing the works of God?" 29: Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." 30: So they said to him, "Then what sign do you do, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you perform? 31: Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, `He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" 32: Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33: For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world." 34: They said to him, "Lord, give us this bread always." 35: Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. 36: But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 37: All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out. 38: For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me; 39: and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day. 40: For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." 41: The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down from heaven." 42: They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, `I have come down from heaven'?" 43: Jesus answered them, "Do not murmur among yourselves. 44: No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 45: It is written in the prophets, `And they shall all be taught by God.' Every one who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. 46: Not that any one has seen the Father except him who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47: Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. 48: I am the bread of life. 49: Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50: This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. 51: I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh." 52: The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 53: So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; 54: he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55: For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56: He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57: As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. 58: This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever." 59: This he said in the synagogue, as he taught at Caper'na-um. 60: Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?" 61: But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, "Do you take offense at this?