I came across an excellent explanation of the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist here:
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Peace be with you!
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I came across an excellent explanation of the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist here:
Enjoy!
Peace be with you!
And I'm curious as to whether a letter telling them to stop is going to be issued from the Vatican or not.
I'm watching the video, and the one thing that I'm starting to realize is that if the Eucharist can become the body and blood of Christ, then it can heal you: Matthew 9:21 "For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.". And that says to me how powerful his body is in the healing of the sick and afflicted. Just the hem though and she was healed.
Jesus explains the sense of the entire passage in John 6 when He says, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:63) Jesus used figurative language to emphasize these great spiritual truths.
Jesus is not speaking of cannibolism here, but believing in Him unto salvation. Compare for example the following two verses:
John 6:47 - “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.”
John 6:58 - “He who eats this bread will live forever.”
“He who believes” in Christ is equivalent to “he who eats this bread” and the result is the same, eternal life. The parallel is also seen in verses 40 and 54:
John 6:40 - “Everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6:54 - “Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
So John 6 does not support mysticism or cannibalism in regards to the false doctrine of transubstantiation. On the contrary, it’s the primacy of faith as the means by which we receive the grace of God. Jesus is the Bread of Life; we eat of Him and are satisfied when we believe in Him unto salvation.
Bread represents the "staff of life." Sustenance. That which essential to sustain life. Just as bread or sustenance is necessary to maintain physical life, Jesus is all the sustenance necessary for spiritual life.
The source of physical life is blood -- "life is in the blood." As with the bread, just as blood is the empowering or source of life physically, Jesus is all the source of spiritual life necessary.
At the church where I attend we do partake of the Lord's Supper and we believe that the bread and wine symbolically represent the body and blood of Christ, but we don't believe in transubstantiation/cannibolism. We do not dismiss partaking of the Lord's supper or receiving water baptism for new converts at my church, but we view the Lord's supper and baptism as ordinances instead of sacraments that are required for salvation.This all seems subject to interpretation. I can see many different beliefs could stem from those passages. But we do take the sacrament, do you take the sacrament, and say this is the body and blood of Christ Jesus? If it's just spirit, then that's fine with me also. So long as we take the sacrament. Although I'm starting to wonder if some members on this forum would dismiss the Sacrament also as not required, like baptism...
Luke 22:19:
"And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me."
At the church where I attend we do partake of the Lord's Supper and we believe that the bread and wine symbolically represent the body and blood of Christ, but we don't believe in transubstantiation/cannibolism. We do not dismiss partaking of the Lord's supper or receiving water baptism for new converts at my church, but we view the Lord's supper and baptism as ordinances instead of sacraments that are required for salvation.
I've often thought the same.It's a backhanded reference to Adam and Eve eating fruit from the tree of good and evil...
They internalized that fruit and subsequently died...
If you internalize Jesus you will live forever...
At the church where I attend we do partake of the Lord's Supper and we believe that the bread and wine symbolically represent the body and blood of Christ,
, but we don't believe in transubstantiation/cannibolism
While I do not watch posted videos, I believe I have a clear understanding of the Catholic Eucharist, which is definitely not the Lord's Supper, as even Catholic John Wyclif pointed that out long before the Reformers.I came across an excellent explanation of the Catholic understanding of the Eucharist here:
Then the groom would pour her a cup of sweet wine (symbolic of joy) and say, "This is my blood poured out for you" IOW he was promising to make her happy in their married life.
Hi John,
Interesting, and apt..
For the Lord's Supper is when God wed His people Israel, as He promised He would do..
At the time prescribed by Moses, Jesus offers Himself to the Father as the Pascal Lamb (the bride price).
Then the Groom gives Himself to His bride:
'this is My Body, take and eat'
'This Cup is the New Covenant in My Bloid, take and drink'
And she receiving Him, the two are made one flesh. (Eph 5:31-32)
What wonder, what mercy, what joy! That the gentiles were welcomed into that union!
All are welcome to come to the wedding feast of the Lamb of God!
Peace be with you!
While I do not watch posted videos, I believe I have a clear understanding of the Catholic Eucharist,
I've done some studies into the anthropology of Jewish life...
Neat! What can you tell me about John the Baptist as 'best man'?
Peace!