2007-12-21 16:17:46 · 21 answers · asked by Peter B I 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are correct.
Like many Christian practices, yes, it is a carry-over of ritual cannibalism. By partaking of the blood and flesh, some power or spiritual benefit is conferred to the celebrant.
2007-12-21 16:24:00 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
People living in spiritual darkness grobe about like some blind person feeling an elephant saying this might be its leg whilst in reality it is its trunk.
When Jesus got fed up with all the people following Him about wanting for Him to feed them by some miracle, and to see Him healing the sick and the lame, He told them that if they did not eat His flesh and drink His blood they will have no part in Him. This is when they all left him saying the exact words you are saying, 'are we cannibals how can we eat your flesh and drink your blood, you are a crazy man!'
Many Churches today especially the Catholic Church believe there communion is the real presence, but all of them have no part in Him as they are all still living in utter spiritual darkeness even while they say and do what they do.
What Jesus meant by saying this was that He took all our sins away through His Babtism (flesh) when John the Babtist babtized Him in the Jordan River, and when He shed all His blood in our place on the Cross (blood). This is the true meaning of communion remembering His Babtism and His shed blood on the Cross.
2007-12-22 00:32:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am speaking completely objectively here because I honestly know nothing much about what you're talking about (it's significance and such).. but cannibalism imo, would have to be actually taking a piece of human flesh into your mouth and digesting it.... not just a piece of bread signifying it.. and you say they believe in the real 'presence' .... I think they are thinking he's there in soul... not in the flesh... again... eating flesh is cannibalism....
2007-12-22 00:22:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If holy communion involved the eating of the dead flesh of a dead man, who subsequently ceased to exist, than it would indeed be cannibalism.
In Holy Communion, Catholics receive the risen and glorified body and blood of the living Jesus Christ ... who is God ... along with his divine spirit and his human soul ... made present in a real substance which is not dead flesh, and which, in it's essence ... cannot be completely digested or totally destroyed ... and which provides absolutely unique, supernatural sustenance ... which is the only known antidote to eternal death.
BIG difference.
2007-12-22 01:21:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are speaking of the Roman Catholic Church, the apostate church. Here's more:
Baptismal Regeneration is a lying wonder. Sacramental grace is a lying wonder. The Absolution of the Confessional is a lying wonder. Transubstantiation, the mass, is the biggest wonder and greatest lie of all, and extreme unction is the last and fatal lie.
There is no truth whatsoever behind any of these things yet millions upon millions of deluded souls have taken leave of this world, fully confiding in these lies for salvation. The Pope by whose authority these lying wonders are performed, is indeed the Antichrist, prophetically identified by signs and lying wonders.
2007-12-22 00:43:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Receiving Communion is scared. When Jesus said to take of this bread this as a remembrances of Me, He was speaking of His body.
The wine represents the blood of Jesus.
Now tell me how in the world did you come to think or believe it is cannibalism?
Jesus said to partake of it in Honor of Him!
2007-12-22 00:28:21 · answer #6 · answered by NJ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human flesh is in the appearane and form of flesh and blood and can nourish as such. The Euchaist is in the appearance and form of bread and wine and can nourish as such also. Chemically it is still bread and wine. However, it is considered substantially the body and body of Christ and not just symbolically. It is the spiritual food for the soul and nourishes the body as bread and wine. Therefore, cannibalism, as such, does not apply.
2007-12-22 00:25:48 · answer #7 · answered by gismoII 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cannibalism seems to be OK in a last resort situation and outright evil in the purposeful killing of another human for food.
Communion celebrates the message of Jesus Christ.
2007-12-22 00:23:08 · answer #8 · answered by timberline06450 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose so, but you're missing the point. Cannibalism has nothing to do with it - and it's just a silly question anyhow. It has the Christ's spirit in it.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm
2007-12-22 00:22:46 · answer #9 · answered by Grainne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When one receives "the communion," they are eating bread, not flesh. Why would eating bread be considered cannibalism?
2007-12-22 00:21:03 · answer #10 · answered by paper_boy21 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋