Christians, is cannibalism a sin? If it is why do you eat Jesus during church?

Question

That whole thing where you eat the piece of bread (represent his skin I think) and the wine (his blood, is that right?).

"Jonathan B" I asked this question out of pure curiosity. If I have offended you (or you aren't mature enough to handle this) please proceed to different question.

Answer 1

Yes cannibalism is a sin. The bread and wine are representing Christ's death for us and how he was hung on the cross. It was done in remembrance of him, not as an actual, "We are eating Jesus" concept.

At the Last Supper, Jesus broke bread and drank wine and said "Do this in rememberance of me"


*edit*

What Jonathan B. is forgetting, is that murder is a sin, therefore if you are murdering to eat the human then cannibalism would be a sin. However, if you aren't murdering them he may have a point... however disgusting it may be.

Answer 2

Jesus represents the bread of life, which we must nourish ourselves through the Word of God. We are also covered under His blood once we surrender our will and repent, to receive the baptism and infilling of the Holy Ghost, regenerated as a new creature in Him.

The ritualistic manner which bread is eaten and wine is drunk DOES NOT influence the Holy Spirit to move and indwell in the recipient! The only way we are given the gift of the Holy Spirit is to REPENT with a sincere, unfeigned heart. God is interested in this type of FAITH to grant us forgiveness and salvation, NOT through dead works like rituals.

Answer 3

Now do we consume Jesus or through our consumption does Jesus consume the being in which He originally created?

Furthermore, the bread contains the whole of Jesus, and the wine contains the whole of Jesus.
Body Blood Soul and Divinity.

While your question is honorable, I politely suggest contemplation beyond our human existence. God is bigger than all our imaginations and the entire universe combined.

Expand your contemplation.

Answer 4

Most Christians are absolutely clueless that IS a form of ritual cannibalism. If you are true believer in the Catholic church, the wine and wafer actually "become" the blood and body of Jesus, which is of course, absurd. Its called "transubstantiation" - one of the many myths of Christianity.

Answer 5

Actually I'm not sure that cannibalism is a sin. Humans don't have cloven hoofs, and although we don't have fins, humans aren't sea creatures. (But I think the kosher law for slaughter would be problematic.)

But seriously, why would you ask a question just to get people upset? It's something a third-grader, or a mean adult, would do. . .

Answer 6

The bread represents Christ's body and the wine represents his blood. These are symbolic as a remembrance of his sacrifice for us.

Answer 7

That never befell, notably in u . s . a .. merely on your head. Catholics and Orthodox are the 1st Christians. yet then a lot of people did no longer like the way the Church acted. so as that they desperate to chop up faraway from them. those are Protestants. The Catholics replied by utilising killing them in lots of brutal techniques because of the fact the Catholics did no longer think of all and sundry yet them have been Christian. i think of you in line with threat have been given issues blended up.

Answer 8

good question. i aint heard that one before. i'm intrested in seing the real responces.

i did hear the joke on family guy where peter was drinking the 'blood' of christ and commenting that he must have been hammered all the time.

Answer 9

You don't know the difference between bread and "skin"?

Answer 10

cannibalism is eating dead people---he is not dead. When we eat something in this world it becomes part of us but with Holy Communion---we become part of him