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Absolutely. The same thing happens in the Divine Liturgy today. We start with bread, wine and water which becomes Christ's flesh and blood. We can't go down to the supermarket to buy Christ's flesh and blood.
In LITERAL reality then, to eat the flesh of Christ and drink His blood would in effect make all who did that cannibals. IF you are going to make the process LITERAL flesh and LITERAL blood then that is the reality of what you are believing.
The problem then with that is that the drinking of blood is expressly forbidden all through the Bible.
Genesis 9:4.........
"But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."
Leviticus 7:26......
"Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings."
Leviticus 17:10-14 ..........
"And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood. And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
Acts 15:28-29..........
"For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well."
If the argument is that all of those Old Test. laws do not apply to us today, then notice that even the Gentile Christians after the resurrection of Christ were to abstain from eating blood. If Christ was asking believers to eat His flesh and blood, He would be going against the clear teaching of scripture in numerous places.
How in the world do you explain away such a thing so as to make its practice of doing it acceptable?????
Even in the Scriptures of John 6 which YOU and the RCC use to validate this practice of LITERALY eating the flesh of Jesus and drinking His bllod Christ clearly told them that He was speaking in a spiritual and not a literal sense.
Verse 63 states.........
"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." Here, He tells them that the flesh profits nothing and that He is referring to the spirit and not to the flesh.
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