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Re: Answer Number One
Posted by The Nineveh Kid (Guest) - Sunday, February 29 2004, 22:05:48 (EST)
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Parhad Wrote:


does the meat of Jesus start out as meat...and his blood as blood...and then turn into wafers and wine in a Christian`s stomach...or...is it a wafer and wine and then turns into human meat and blood in the stomach...and how does either version NOT still smack of Cannibalism.

take your time. I trust there is no hatred in this question.

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There may be no hatred, but the question is not posed in a serious way, so how can you fairly expect me to reply in a serious way? I think you know that it doesn't start that way. So, why ask it like that? The bread starts out as bread and the wine as wine. It is the bread and wine, that is transformed into the body, blood, soul, and Divinity of Jesus christ at the Consecration, upon the Altar. That is the teaching. What happens after the bread and wine (it can be taken under either or both forms) when it is consumed, I believe the material portion is probably processed by the body like any other food, but that is not the important part anyway. The benefits of taking Communion in a worthy manner are first: Union with Jesus Christ, Whom I really and truly receive; secondly: I then receive many supernatural graces and blessings, for example, the forgiveness of my venial sins and the strength to resist future temptations; thirdly: to quote Christ's own words, "He that eateth My Flesh and drinketh My Blood hath everlasting life, and I will raise him up in the last day." I concede to you that that may sound like cannibalism and vampirism (it is a hard saying), but it is not cannabalism and vampirism in the popular sense of those terms. Nevertheless, if that is the price of eternal life, I will not argue with my Creator. But it signifies a whole lot more to me because there is in my mind at least, a supernatural significance to this eating of flesh and drinking of blood and yes, it certainly would be a horrific, if it were not hidden under the form of bread and wine. To this, I would also add that I subtract from all of this the greater part which is unknown, "mystery," just as there is a mysterious part to those things in the natural world that we take for granted. It may sound stupid to ask such a question, but if I asked what makes dirt, dirty, most people would laugh at such a question. But you can pick apart the simplest things in the natural world and never get a satisfactory answer. We accept that part of it that is useful to us and the underlying part we mostly ignore. I accept that mystery permeates everything I experience in this life. I don't know if I will ever receive a satisfactory answer to explain the phenomena of existence and frankly, it's not that important to me. I just love life and I want to go on experiencing it and learning from it. I don't know what else I can say to answer your question, unless you can think of another aspect of it that I haven't answered to your satisfaction.



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