Is this how you lovingly share your vampiric gift of eternal life?
2007-09-24 10:15:36 · 27 answers · asked by Shawn B 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No1home2day, by your defensive posture it appears that I understand it better than you think. You're defending a very bloody, religion there sport.
2007-09-24 10:27:26 · update #1
Beatlemaniac, how is my symbolic language any different than yours?
2007-09-24 10:32:01 · update #2
Ya know?? When I was young, I attended a Christian summer camp. Before each meal we had to sing this prayer. It went something like this.... "We thank thee Lord for this our food, God is love, God is Love. But most of all for Jesus' blood, God is love God is love." It always used to gross me out to be singing of blood before eating... Not many songs could get away with discussing love and blood at the same time. Leave it to the Christians.
2007-09-24 10:22:11 · answer #1 · answered by Gertrude H 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Not all Christian faiths believe that they are consuming flesh and blood. Many (perhaps most, speaking of the different religions, not the quantity of people practicing them) take it as a symbolic gesture of communing with Jesus. This symbolism is from the new testament description of Jesus sharing bread and wine with the apostles. He says to take the bread, and eat it...drink the wine, it is as my blood.
Some relgions, though, say that the bread and wine actually transform into actual flesh and blood, a process referred to as Transubstantiation. This, at least for Catholics, was decided during over a period of years of indocrination, dating back to the year 150 (perhaps earlier, but that is the earliest reference I have found).
2007-09-24 10:38:49 · answer #2 · answered by Night Owl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you some kind of nutcase or something???
Here's the same KIND of question for you: Do you close the living room curtains before you sexually abuse your children?
Before you go and tear down straw men, make sure that the straw man you create out of the vain imagination of your heart at least LOOKS something like what you WISH you could attack!
Now, go clean up the straw. It's making a big mess!
And next time, ask an intelligent question, lest people begin to think you really ARE a fool!
2007-09-24 10:20:33 · answer #3 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You have absolutely no idea what the Eucharist is. I suggest that you read about it in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and go to www.catholicanswers.com for more info.
During the Liturgy of the Eucharist, the priest blesses the hosts and wine and during that time, Jesus' presence comes down and goes into them. This is called "Transubstantiation". The hosts and wine don't literally turn into flesh and blood. But on a few occassions they have and there are documentation about those miracles. Jesus' full presence resided in the hosts and wine and when we accept them, eat them and drink them, we are asking Jesus to reside inside of us. He told His disciples to do this at the Last Supper. And Catholic still follow His direction and we do it.
2007-09-24 10:23:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You understand so little.
I don't have children, but I will let them decide what they want to follow when I do have them. I was never forced to take communion or to ba a follower of Christ. One should never take communion until you have accepted Jesus as your savior.
2007-09-24 10:21:32 · answer #5 · answered by Mrs. Bear 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When my son became of age and asked Jesus into his heart, he wanted to partake of communion. We don't look at it as the flesh and blood of Jesus. The bible says do this in remembrance of me, the juice represents the blood that was shed for us and the wafer, the body of Jesus that was given on the cross. We don't believe that the elements become the real body and blood of Christ.
2007-09-24 10:21:28 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Communion is SYMBOLIC, its simply a ritual we use to remember Jesus' sacrifice. Only catholics believe they are eating the literal body and blood of Christ. And no, i wouldnt necessarily encourage my children to take Communion..though if they had accepted Christ as their Saviour then i would encourage them.
God bless
2007-09-24 10:21:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I do. This is how we show honor for Him loving us enough to shed His blood and allow His flesh to be crucified. We "symbolically" eat flesh and drink blood in remembrance of Him. Maybe this will help you better understand what you are so interested in knowing.
2007-09-24 10:20:53 · answer #8 · answered by edcw0214 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, because I'm not a cannibal. The Lord's table is a rememberance of what He did for me on the cross. It is among the highest blasphemies to suggest that the bread and wine become Him literally. "Transubstantiation" is a lie and was never biblical. The catholics got it from Babylon with the rest of their unsaved cult. Catholics are not saved Christians.
2007-09-24 10:19:31 · answer #9 · answered by CJ 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I wouldn't encourage anyone to do so without fully understanding the meaning behind it. To do so would be inappropriate, disrespectful and harmful.
2007-09-24 10:22:27 · answer #10 · answered by child of God 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋