What religion drinks the blood of Christ and what is the bread suppose to symbolize?

Answer 1

Christians are the ones who particiapte in Communion, and the wine represents His blood. Jesus said that the bread represented His body. (Matthew 26:26ff)

Answer 2

Epitone (above) is correct! I couldn't have said it any better, though I would like to add to his response that transubstantiation not only is what RCs believe as turning the wine into blood and the wafer into Christ's flesh, but it also symbolizes cannibalism, which is an abomination to God - it is inhumane and very heinous, but the RCs believe in actually drinking Christ's blood and eating His flesh. The verse that Epitone mentioned is taken out of context by the RC church - they take it literally instead of symbolically. They believe that you actually eat Christ's flesh and drink His blood, which again, is nothing short of cannibalism - they misinterpret that verse.

Answer 3

As Catholics we receive the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ in the Eucharist. Neither the wine nor the bread "symbolize' anything. Christ is truly present in the Eucharist.

The doctrine of the Real Presence asserts that in the Holy Eucharist, Jesus is literally and wholly present—body and blood, soul and divinity—under the appearances of bread and wine. Evangelicals and Fundamentalists frequently attack this doctrine as "unbiblical," but the Bible is forthright in declaring it (cf. 1 Cor. 10:16–17, 11:23–29; and, most forcefully, John 6:32–71).

The early Church Fathers interpreted these passages literally. In summarizing the early Fathers’ teachings on Christ’s Real Presence, renowned Protestant historian of the early Church J. N. D. Kelly, writes: "Eucharistic teaching, it should be understood at the outset, was in general unquestioningly realist, i.e., the consecrated bread and wine were taken to be, and were treated and designated as, the Savior’s body and blood" (Early Christian Doctrines, 440).

From the Church’s early days, the Fathers referred to Christ’s presence in the Eucharist. Kelly writes: "Ignatius roundly declares that . . . [t]he bread is the flesh of Jesus, the cup his blood. Clearly he intends this realism to be taken strictly, for he makes it the basis of his argument against the Docetists’ denial of the reality of Christ’s body. . . . Irenaeus teaches that the bread and wine are really the Lord’s body and blood. His witness is, indeed, all the more impressive because he produces it quite incidentally while refuting the Gnostic and Docetic rejection of the Lord’s real humanity" (ibid., 197–98).

"Hippolytus speaks of ‘the body and the blood’ through which the Church is saved, and Tertullian regularly describes the bread as ‘the Lord’s body.’ The converted pagan, he remarks, ‘feeds on the richness of the Lord’s body, that is, on the Eucharist.’ The realism of his theology comes to light in the argument, based on the intimate relation of body and soul, that just as in baptism the body is washed with water so that the soul may be cleansed, so in the Eucharist ‘the flesh feeds upon Christ’s body and blood so that the soul may be filled with God.’ Clearly his assumption is that the Savior’s body and blood are as real as the baptismal water. Cyprian’s attitude is similar. Lapsed Christians who claim communion without doing penance, he declares, ‘do violence to his body and blood, a sin more heinous against the Lord with their hands and mouths than when they denied him.’ Later he expatiates on the terrifying consequences of profaning the sacrament, and the stories he tells confirm that he took the Real Presence literally" (ibid., 211–12).

http://www.catholic.com/library/Christ_in_the_Eucharist.asp
http://www.catholic.com/library/Real_Presence.asp

Answer 4

The wine symbolizes the blood, and the bread symbolizes the body. That's from a Protestant viewpoint.

To a Roman Catholic the wine represents the literal blood of Jesus, and the bread or wafer represents His literal body. The word they use is 'transubstantiation'. According to Roman Catholic official doctrine, it is a miracle that the blood still tastes like wine, and the body still tastes like bread. . . . a miracle according to them.

Answer 5

Which religion drinks the blood of Christ?
What planet do you live on that you haven't hear of Christianity? They all do that in one form or another.
But your probably thinking of the Catholics who love the blood sucking ritual.
And the bread is FLESH.
YUMMY!

Answer 6

Catholics truly drink his "living blood" and eat his "living flesh" and so become one with him---living eternally and so at our death we do not die, we only change.

Forget what Epitome says---he doesn't know the actual Scripture---he has quoted it wrongly. In fact it does say "If you do not eat of my flesh and drink of my blood, you have no life within you" and at that point many left him thinking that this was a hard saying but, he did not run after them and say "I was only kidding" ---he let them go because what he said was the truth.

Answer 7

Catholics believe in transubstantiation, whereby the wine turns into Christs blood, and the bread turns into his flesh. This is not a Bible teaching.

Matthew 26:26-28 says: "As they continued eating, Jesus took a loaf and, after saying a blessing, he broke it and, giving it to the disciples, he said: “TAKE, eat. This means my body.” Also, he took a cup and, having given thanks, he gave it to them, saying: “Drink out of it, all of YOU; for this means my ‘blood of the covenant,’ which is to be poured out in behalf of many for forgiveness of sins."

Jesus clearly states that those things MEAN, or symbolize his flesh and blood. Otherwise, that would be cannibalism, which is wrong.

Answer 8

catholicism and the bread represents the body of christ.