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Originally Posted by SilentDrum
Come on! Jesus never said we should eat his flesh and drink his blood! He suggested we considered all food, symbolized by bread, as his body and all drink, symbolized by wine, as his blood. This is a unity teaching, not a cannibal one!
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nonetheless, every time someone takes communion, one is reminded that this is the body of christ. and the wine is considered the blood of christ. yes, it is symbolic, but jesus could have simply said: drink this wine in my honor, eat this bread in my remembrance.
why use the words "this is my flesh and this is my blood?" there is some esoteric of mystic reverence. he said it during his last Passover when bread gets broken and wine gets poured.
jesus lost some followers over this statement. they did not know what to make of it. they thought he had gone a bit too far and perhaps he was not as together as they thought he were.