When you go to church do you take the body of Christ?If so, does that mean we/you are cannibals?

Question

lol. I knew I was going to get different opinions!

Answer 1

NO

Interesting question.

It is like asking a male Christian if he is "the Bride of Christ.

I had a Jewish mom and a Catholic father, so I became a protestant.

Catholics believe the "bread" turns to his flesh in Communion, but that's not what the Bible says.

Jesus said to "remember"!

Obviously "This is my flesh" was a symbolic statement. "This is my blood" was only symbolic!

We REMEMBER his flesh and blood when we take communion, but the Bible clearly prohibits drinking blood, and we don't need bread to change in secret to remind us of His sacrifice.

Protestants are NOT cannibals when we "take the body of Christ" in communion.

Answer 2

The Eucharist is a sacramental oath that Jesus made in promising us his body and blood even though it appears to be bread and wine. When Jesus made the promise in the discourse in John chapter 6, it was clear that the disciples believed him to be speaking of cannabalism and many of them left him.

If, at that moment in time, the disciples had killed Jesus and eaten his flesh and drank his blood, they would have been guilty of cannabalism. This would not have been a good thing, and it would have been worthy of condemnation. Instead, Jesus gives us his flesh to eat and blood to drink sacramentally in the transubstantiated bread and wine. There is no cannabalism under the classic and graphic definitions that man has attributed to it. The sacramental food of the Eucharist is food for the spiritual journey and it does not carry with it the character of cannabalism.

Transubstantiation is accomplished through the ministry of the priest at mass only by the power of the Holy Spirit. Only God, himself, actually transforms the bread and wine. God willingly gave us the word and the word became flesh by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus willingly lays down his life for the world. Jesus institutes the New Covenant at the Last Supper and fulfills his promise in John 6. Jesus willing gives himself for the world on the cross, and Jesus willingly gives himself to us again in the Eucharist.

In Genesis 1:2-3 we read that, "The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light." When God's minister celebrates mass with the faithful, God's Spirit transubstantiates the bread and wine in the same way that God created light in Genesis 1:2-3 and in the same way that the word was made flesh in Luke chapter

Answer 3

Yes, I do. Jesus did not say 'this is a symbol of my body'

"‘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.’ The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’" (John 6:51–52).

His listeners were stupefied because now they understood Jesus literally—and correctly. He again repeated his words, but with even greater emphasis, and introduced the statement about drinking his blood: "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. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him" (John 6:53–56).

"It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life."

In John 6:63 "flesh profits nothing" refers to mankind’s inclination to think using only what their natural human reason would tell them rather than what God would tell them.

The words I have spoken to you are spirit" does not mean "What I have just said is symbolic." The word "spirit" is never used that way in the Bible. The line means that what Christ has said will be understood only through faith; only by the power of the Spirit and the drawing of the Father.

Answer 4

I think the problem is Christ taught that He came not to establish His kingdom in this world(the flesh). His is a spiritual kingdom. To eat flesh would be cannibalism. Since Christ died and arose into His spiritual kingdom those who open the door of their heart ,Christ comes in and suppes with them offering His glorified flesh and blood making them family.
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Answer 5

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Answer 6

No, it doesn't mean you are a cannibal. If you look close when you take the Eucharist, you will see that it is still bread and/or wine.

Answer 7

lol, no. Its just a symbol of us becomming one with christ.

"Partaking of the symbolic bread is a symbol of joining the body of Christ. Drinking of the wine is a symbol of the one Spirit that gives life to all those linked in the body of Christ."

Answer 8

At its very best it makes you symbolic cannibals. At its very worst it makes you a Deiphage (God eater). That is one of the thngs that I find so VERY hard to understand about Christianity. Why do you EAT your God? Yet YOU (some, not ALL) consider us Pagans and Witches to commit evil acts. NOne of our acts even comes close to being this wicked as to ritually eat someone in effigy or eat our God.

BB,
Raji the Green Witch

BB,
Raji the Green Witch

Answer 9

the BODY of Christ IS the CHURCH itself. that is all those who are believers no matter where they may be. like a body of 1 so to speak.

Answer 10

I've been a vegetarian since I was 3. When I was Catholic, I took communion without worry. I knew it was symbolic, not literal. Although, I do realize many do not share that view.