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If Roman Catholics believe in transubstantiation, do they regard themselves cannibals on receiving communion?

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If Roman Catholics believe in transubstantiation, do they regard themselves cannibals on receiving communion?

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  1. No.

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  2. Yes, than I wash it down with his blood (wine)

  3. I love this question because I used to ask my sunday school teacher this all the time. his answer always was that I was taking things too literally. The body and blood of Christ doesn't literally mean you are consuming Jesus' flesh but that you are sharing his spirituality, becoming one with Christ. Personally, it's a lot funnier just to think of Catholics as cannibals.

  4. 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 1.

    Here's some links:

    http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1993/93...

    http://www.catholic.com/library/Christ_i...

    http://www.catholic.com/library/Real_Pre...

  5. No, we don't. I guess that's why Jesus did it with bread and wine so we would not.

  6. *drink*

  7. Most Catholics don't think of it at all. It IS, of course, ritual cannibalism, but since the Body and Blood of Jesus are there in a transubstantiated state, rather than greasy flesh and drippy blood, it really doesn't signify anything except obedience to Christ's command.

    Unless you eat of my flesh and drink of my blood you shall not have life within you. For my flesh is food indeed and my blood is drink.

    Also: Take and eat, for this is my body which shall be given up for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Take and drink, for this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant which shall be for all men.

    Do this in memory of me.

    So we do. We tend to take Jesus' words VERY seriously, the Apostles rather seriously and the Old Testament as a nice prologue that's only there to prepare the Jews for His coming. They blew it. We didn't. We get to be His. Unless they accept Him, they don't. Simple, huh?

  8. no

  9. To be precise; Roman Catholics believe that during the Mass, the priest changes the bread & wine to actually become the body and blood of Christ, under the 'appearence' of bread and wine.

    Which is why Pagan authors condemned the early 'Catholic/Christians' as cannibals.


  10. Roman Catholics believe that during the Mass, the priest changes the bread & wine to actually become the literal, physical body and blood of Christ.

  11. no

    its only in the spirit of cannibalism
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