HOLY GRAIL fact or fiction(your opinion)???

Answer 1

The holy grail is supposed to be the cup that Jesus drank from at the last supper he had with his disciples before going to the cross.

The supper was held in someone else's house using their dinnerware. Unless the host or a server realized the significance of the cup, which isn't really all that likely, since even the disciples hadn't got the death, burial, and resurrection straight at this point, or at least not fully, my guess is the cup just went back into the household and is now lost irrevocably or broken into sherds.

Like pieces of the true cross, the desire to hold on to physical parts of objects which were used in events which hold spiritual significance, the grail became an object of reverence--myths grew up and attached themselves to it--and then wilder myths grew up and totally obscured the fact that the cup itself was not important--it was what Christ was saying about it that was. This is new covenant in my blood. Not like the old covenant which required the sacrifice of animals as a picture of a redemption to come, but he was telling them from the cross on redemption would be fully accomplished by the sacrifice of his life on the cross--not the blood of bulls and goats, but his own precious life's blood shed for the forgiveness of sins.

So, the cup was real, the mythology that grew up around it unreal--just lovely or less than lovely fairy stories.

Maggie

Answer 2

The Holy Grail is a myth. Whether their is any historical basis for it, it's difficult to say.

Everything we know about it outside the Gospels is pure myth, heavily borrowed from Celtic beliefs by Medieval troubadors. Including the name Holy Grail.

Josh

Answer 3

It is certainly fiction. Skeptics doubt that Jesus really existed, let alone some cup from which he drank and/or that held some of his blood. The Bible does not tell such a tale anyhow. It was developed later and is in the King Arthur epic. There are variations of it by now, and the conflicting ones show us that we should doubt it was real.

Answer 4

Was there a cup which Jesus used during his last supper with his apostles? Certainly. I don't think he drank out of his hands. Was it this golden cup depicted in art and fictional writing? Certainly not. This man and his followers were from Gallilee. Their primary language was Aramaic, not Hebrew. In the society of that day they were considered the n*****s of Judea. Even his last words on the cross, set down in the gospels, were in Aramaic. So, it was probably some simple drinking vessel fashioned out of wood or carved from some stone. But, there was some cup he drank from. Its whereabouts remain unknown. I doubt it was recovered by any of his followers and treasured in any way. They all seemed to go into hiding and denied they even knew him after he was arrested on orders from the Sanhedrin.

Answer 5

FACT: There's no reason for it to be in the Bible if it weren't fact. Most of the stuff you hear in the movies and books is fiction though.

Answer 6

It is said that the Holy Grail is Mary Magdalen. She is a factual historical figure...so yes.

Answer 7

fiction

Answer 8

Of course all the christians will believe that it's a fact.
Of course majority of the non-christians will believe it isn't a fact.
We have to look at it from a historical angle. And no, I don't think it exists, but who knows, I am not sure and this is my opinion on the matter.
Although, I do definately believe Jesus was a prophet of ALLAH, if thats what you are indirectly asking.
Thanks for your time,Peace.

Answer 9

simply an allegorical tale that has fallen through the ages to us. this fable provides us an ability to conceptualize christ and question our own motives and misgivings.