Why do we eat Jesus?

Many Christians and Catholics probably have gone through Communion before the end of their teen years. We eat the eucharist which represents the body of Christ, and drink the wine which represent the blood of Christ. What is this supposed to symbolize? Why do we Jesus?

stratego said:

Why do we eat Jesus

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What an attention getter!

I have no idea. Assuming Christianity is true, maybe it is to represent how Jesus died for our sins, perhaps concretizing the guilt?

Jesus asked Gandalf for some of his magical pipe weed.

stratego said:

Many Christians and Catholics probably have gone through Communion before the end of their teen years. We eat the eucharist which represents the body of Christ, and drink the wine which represent the blood of Christ. What is this supposed to symbolize? Why do we Jesus?

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Actually, you could say the same thing about the cross. Why do people wear crosses around their necks? Wouldn't that be like wearing a tiny gun around your neck on MLK holiday to mourn his death?

We wear the crucifix as a form of reminder to themselves that God love the world so much that He sent his only begotten son to die for our sins. Also to remind us the of the type of suffering and death he had to endure for our salvation. Also, that as christians, we are supposed to follow his commandments... love one another as you'd want someone to love you, etc...

when you eat the bread and drink the wine, firstly, it's because during the last supper with his apostles, he said to do this in memory of him and all that. secondly, by doing this you "become in communion(?)" with him.
or something like that.

Same answer as I give for eating cows.

You don't think he'd do the same to us if he had a chance?

Yom said:

Actually, you could say the same thing about the cross. Why do people wear crosses around their necks? Wouldn't that be like wearing a tiny gun around your neck on MLK holiday to mourn his death?

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There is in fact a Christian denomination who celebrates Jesus's victory over death by throwing crosses into the trash.

In fact, Bush recently met with their leader and issued a proclaimation praising them for some community service they did, and this totally set off an arch-Catholic guy I know.

because it's free and that apparently makes up for the fact that he tastes like stale bread and his blood tastes like cheap grape juice. personally I would prefer a sour cream and onion flavored god or at least a BBQ style. Now the baptisms are especially fun an old minister trying to drown a young child to give him jesus.

Yum Jesus meat........................... Jesus Hamburger Yum.................................. Jesus Sandwich Yum.............. Jesus stew Yum...............................

I once got into a masses coz my friend told me that there are snacks to eat...
only got a little piece of round white biscuit thou hehehe.

But learned a valuable lesson after my teacher scolded us for not saying thanks after receiving the biscuits.

Thou i never ever go to any masses after that. I did learn to say thanks to almost everyone even if i dont like the service/things they give me.

I don't, I think it's sillyness.

@ Colonel

You missed the biggest bit -

Yummy Jesus Spam !

cause he is so damn tasty

stratego said:

Many Christians and Catholics probably have gone through Communion before the end of their teen years. We eat the eucharist which represents the body of Christ, and drink the wine which represent the blood of Christ. What is this supposed to symbolize? Why do we Jesus?

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Do you mean what does it symbolize? Or what does it do?

Phycially, it's just bread and wine.(Or grape juice if you go to my church ) You don't get mystical powers from Communion, and it's no differant physically from the bread and juice you'd get from the store and eat as a snack. But what it represents is Christ giving us his body, his blood, his LIFE, giving it to us so that we might live eternally with God. The Communion itself doesn't actually do that, it merely reminds us of what he did.

Does that help?

@Elrohir

That's one of the more minor separation points between Protestants and Catholics. For protestants, it's just wine*, and the symbolism is the important part. Catholics believe it literally magically turns into the body of Jesus Christ upon consumption.

*Some churches actually use non-alcoholic wine or grape juice, as not to offend former alcoholics. I personally think it's a bit silly, as there's not nearly enough alcohol in one or two sips of wine to even taste it properly... but to each his own, I guess.

@Shadylookin

I once met a guy who goes to a church where they use potato chips instead of bread... (to emphasize that it's not the contents but the meaning, or whatever) I'll have to make some suggestions to his pastor about flavor issues!

That's a good point Hunde, what denomination you are does affect how to view this issue. (The whole grape juice thing seemed more so you didn't give alcahol to minors more than to offend former alcaholics, but maybe that's just the churces I've been to)

stratego said:

Many Christians and Catholics probably have gone through Communion before the end of their teen years. We eat the eucharist which represents the body of Christ, and drink the wine which represent the blood of Christ. What is this supposed to symbolize? Why do we [eat] Jesus?

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Because that is who you are. Admission is the first step towards redemption

They do it because of the traditional interpretation of the Last Supper episode in the New Testament.

If that is really the blood of Jesus, he must have been wasted 24 hours a day.

Elrohir said:

Do you mean what does it symbolize? Or what does it do?

Phycially, it's just bread and wine.(Or grape juice if you go to my church ) You don't get mystical powers from Communion, and it's no differant physically from the bread and juice you'd get from the store and eat as a snack. But what it represents is Christ giving us his body, his blood, his LIFE, giving it to us so that we might live eternally with God. The Communion itself doesn't actually do that, it merely reminds us of what he did.

Does that help?

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I could not have said it any better.

@Hundegesicht. You are wrong about the reason why some churches use grape juice instead of wine. Because the grape juice and the bread are symbolic then we need to have a look at them as symbols.

The bread. This represents the Body of Jesus Christ. This had to be unleavened because to represent to the spotless and sinless Saviour, the bread had to be without any leaven because leaven is often used as a symbol for sin and you cannot be a symbol of sinlessness if the symbol contains a symbol of sin.

The grape juice. This represents the Blood of Jesus Christ. This like the bread has to be a representation of the pure sinless Blood of Christ. This to has to be free of any impurities. And this is the reason why in is to be free of Alcohol because Alcohol is a chemical reaction to yeast, or the Biblical name of leaven. If you are using any drink that has alcohol in it then you are not doing it the Biblical way.

The catholic method of Transubstantion is blatantly unbiblical. First of all they are violating the fact that we are not allowed to have blood. Also the eating of human flesh is obviously disallowed. If what they say is true then we should report everyone who is taking part of Catholic communion to the police because this is a crime. Secondly, they are saying that what Jesus did on the cross was useless because they have to re-cruxify everytime, well that is what in effect they are doing. The Bible say that in

Paul of Tarsus said:

Hebrews 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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His sacrifice is enough to satisfy the demands of God. We do not need to keep going to the Priest to sanctfy the Body and Blood of Jesus because Jesus has done that himself, in an event that will never be repeated.