Can someone explain the canabalizm?

[Umaro]

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?

 

[Key]

Sorry I can not help you with this.

That is an issue of Doctrine.

Sorry I can not offer you more then this.

God Bless

Key.

 

[PenelopePitstop2]

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.

 

[jasper123]

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

 

[ebia]

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.

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.

30 So they said to him, “What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do?
31 † Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32 So Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 So they said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
35 † Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.
36 But I told you that although you have seen (me), you do not believe.
37 Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,
38 because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
39 And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it (on) the last day.
40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him (on) the last day.”
41 The Jews murmured about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”
42 and they said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
43 Jesus answered and said to them, “Stop murmuring † among yourselves.
44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets: ‘They shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
47 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
50 this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
52 The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?”
53 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
54 Whoever eats † my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
57 Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
59 These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60 † Then many of his disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?”
61 Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you?
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