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Can someone explain the canabalizm?

Umaro

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Originally I had thought the body and blood/bread and wine thing was metaphorical, but recently I've talked to several priests, and been told Christians believe that when blessed, the bread and wine transubstantiates and literally becomes the body and blood of Christ. This would mean that you are actually eating Jesus, not just a metaphor for accepting him. This belief strikes me as very strange, so could someone clarify?
 

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Some branches of catholicism teach this but in my view it is unscriptual. Jesus offered himself once and for all as a sacrifice for sin. Transubstantiation, where some believe the bread and wine literally become Jesus' body and blood during the offering of communion is not supported in scripture. Jesus said for us to take communion as a symbolic remembrance of His sacrifice not that it would become again his body and blood to be offered again.

As key said it is a doctrinal view some hold but not supported in the word of God.
 
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I will be glad to answer your question. When the priest
preforms consecration, the bread and wine are turned
into the body and blood of Christ. By partaking of the
bread and or wine you receive santifying grace in
your soul and helps you from committing sin, also
by taking this you are in a good state of grace.
Ron
 
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Yep. The Catholic church holds to transubstantiation. The Orthodox and many Anglicans hold that the bread and wine really become the body and blood of Christ but decline to say exactly how that happens in the way that the full doctine of transubstantiation does.
This would mean that you are actually eating Jesus, not just a metaphor for accepting him.
Yep.

This belief strikes me as very strange, so could someone clarify?
It always has - its meant to be both shocking and counter-intuitive.

 
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