why do we eat jesus? are we cannibals?

Question

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; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed."
To any normal person, this sounds very much like the script of a gruesome horror film. It sounds like some sort of revolting satanic ritual. It definitely does not sound like the words of the all-loving creator of the universe.

The dictionary describes cannibalism in the following way:

The usually ritualistic eating of human flesh by a human being

What Jesus is demanding is cannibalism.

If you are a Christian, the two questions you may be asking yourself right now are:

1. Why in the world am I, as a sane individual, participating in ritualistic cannibalism? How in the world did I stoop to this point?

2. Why would an all-powerful, all-loving God demand that I do this?

i am christian btw just want to hear some opinions on the matter. dont flame please

makes you take a step back doesnt it? what are us catholics really following. i am catholic btw just want to hear others opinions. please dont flame

Answer 1

How can we eat something that does not exist?

Answer 2

read some Freud and Jung.
Read the book the Hero with a thousand faces by Joseph Campbell.

The Ogre father is a basic phycological concept. The father is in between the baby and its mother, Fear of being eaten by the father and the mother is deep seeded fear.
In a african myth of Adam and Eve there first child was so beutifull they ate it. So God had to make babies a little unglier.
Have you ever heard a mother say I can just eat you up.
So the mythology reaches a very very primal part of the human phyche.
THe cross is a crossing of a God coming to its people and the people going to there God. A true crossing and both eating each other.
They are metaphors for something deep inside every human on earth no matter what the culture. WHen people interpret them as history that is when they lose the meaning they lose the purpose and that is when they start to kill each other over a myth.

Answer 3

The idea evolved in ancient Egypt long before catholics got hold of it. Others besides, but anyway

The idea was the the essence and spirit of a person was centered in their brain, heart, liver and by consuming those things the person would literally live on in you.

The idea behind communion is that the blood and body of Christ sustain you and bring you, quite literally, into communion with Christ by the act (which is why it is called communion).

Yes it is ritualistic, yes, it draws on Old High Magic, but then so does much of Catholicism in any case which is why so many books have been written about the Jesuit orders and occult offshoots of the order...but that is a whole other set of questions.

Answer 4

I had to go to catholic school as a kid and I remember eating "the body of christ" and thinking the texture was just like styrofoam.
Why would an all powerful god feel the need to create anything in the first place? I think the desire to create something shows he would be unsatisfied without doing it and therefore not omnipotent.

Answer 5

Dear friend,
I believe in the Lord's supper {communion] the bread remains unchanged and the wine also. They represent the body and blood of Jesus which were given for us.I have no time to write anything else.

Answer 6

It's symbolic. Jesus said "Do this in REMEMBERANCE of Me", when speaking of the Lord's table.

It symbolizes being a believer in Him, and partaking in His rejection by the unsaved.

That's why the people left. It's easier to pretend to "eat Jesus" than to actually be persecuted for standing for the true Gospel. It was and is symbolic, not literal.

If it were literal, then ask a catholic whether they've gouged their eyeballs out yet, because Jesus said to do that too.

Answer 7

what we eat my friend is the flesh of the risen Christ. Christ is alive, not dead, therefore cannabalism is a ridiculous argument, one that the faith-less tell us because their faith dont stretch to divine faith, only natural faith, mostly faith that sees and understands, catholics believe without understanding the hows, because Jesus calls us to walk by faith, not by sight.

Answer 8

that is refering to the last supper when everybody drank the wine which resembled jesus' blood and ate from the loaf of bread representing his body..

it is symbolism..
it doesnt acctually mean eat him..

it is talking about the last supper, the night before his crusifiction and in church now, communion.

so no, he is not telling us to become cannibals...
it is just all about the last supper

Answer 9

EAT THE FLESH OF JESUS

DRINK THE BLOOD OF JESUS

CATHOLICS ARE CANNIBALS.

BETTER THAN TONY ROMA RIBS

BBQ A COW

BBQ A SHEEP

BBQ A CHICKEN IF YOU WANT TASTY JESUS

Answer 10

Christians don't, Catholics do.

Answer 11

It is not cannibalism at all.

And it is not symbolic either.

Mark 14, 22-24: And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: This is my body. 23. And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them and they all drank of it. 24. And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

It doesn't say 'this is a symbol of my body.' Christ having said “this is my body,” who shall deny it and say “this is not your body.” Christ having said “this is my blood,” who shall deny and say, “this is not your blood.”

John 6, 26: Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you; ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. 27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, etc. 31. Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven."

But if the Holy Eucharist were only bread and wine and not the Body and Blood of Christ, these statements would constitute gross deception.

John 6, 33: "For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 35. … I am the bread of life … 38. … For I came down from heaven, etc. 41. The Jews then murmured at him, because he said I am the bread which came down from heaven, etc. 48. I am that bread of life. 49. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

The King James Bible teaches that Christ’s Holy Eucharist actually came down from Heaven; in other words that it was really his own very self.

John 6-60: " Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, this is a hard saying; who can hear it? 66. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him."

The King James Bible teaches that Jesus allowed many of his disciples to abandon Him, rather than to substitute the Protestant version of his Holy Eucharist, for what he had given. What a strange concept one must have of Christ to imagine that He would hav acted in this manner if the disciples had really misunderstood Him.

John 6, 67: "Then said Jesus unto the twelve. Will ye also go away? 68. Then Simon Peter answered him. Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou has the words of eternal life. 69. And we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Hmm, Jesus would have allowed his 12 Apostles also to abandon Him rather than to give them the Protestant version of his Holy Eucharist.
Peter had the correct view. He believed and knew that Christ was God, therefore he accepted his divine word, difficult to understand, though it may have been. Catholics lovingly do the same.

St. Paul teaches that the unworthy reception of Holy Communion constitutes a desecration of the Body and Blood of Christ and is the cause of damnation.

1 Cor. 11, 27: Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
1 Cor. 11, 29: For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body"

Let unbelievers in the truth of the Lord’s real presence endeavor to show how the taking of a mere piece of bread or a sip of wine could be a desecration of Christ himself and a crime worthy of damnation.....