That was his idea, don’t mess with the dude…
What I like about the story of Jesus (that is often overlooked) is that even this dude that was all peace, love and non violence decided to take a big ass stick and beat the hell out of people, maybe literally.
I don’t remember that part in the bible where he said cannibalize me after my death ever week for eternity?
Nah, you’re right the dude did it once with his brothers, probably only to make the traitor feel like shit. But hey, it’s a good excuse to drink wine in the morning.
As noted in my previous reply, there are a number of places in the Bible that record Jesus' command to practice the sacrament of communion and relating the elements of bread and wine to his body and blood. However, just how literally that relationship is viewed is not agreed upon by all Christians.
Roman Catholics: The bread and wine are literally transformed into the physical body and blood of Jesus.
Lutherans: The bread and wine are not transformed, but the physical body and blood are in, with, and under them.
Reformed/Presbyterian: The bread and wine are not transformed, but we feed upon Jesus in a spiritual sense rather than physical.
Baptists and many others: The bread and wine are not transformed, but are merely representative of Jesus' body and blood, and we don't feed upon him in a physical or spiritual sense at all.
As an outsider just looks symbolic of cannibalism
Culturally I was born in it, but I am an curious outsider. Dunno that much about religion, but I know stories.
The context in the story is this… Jesus knew he had been betrayed by Judah, so during the last souper he kind of announced his death to the others by symbolizing his flesh and his blood in the wine and the bread. Sort of saying that once gone he would continue to live in them. Which he did, through the stories they told.
So the bread and wine ritual is supposed to serve a double purpose, be forgiving (even if the traitor who causes your own death) and accept the teachings of the Christ, the story of Jesus. What it really does is that it creates a moment of communion, display to others that like them you have accepted the story as central to your life.
I’m an autist. I can understand these things, why they are done, but they still seem absurd to me.
