life within

djeddy

:cool: :cool: way back in my long haired days, i went through something like like the following,

one evening for what ever reason? i taught to myself it would do for me to receive holy communion once or twyce a year, come easter and christmas time,

i had not time to think of what i taught, when i felt like my mind had been taken from me, left emty not able to think

it sounded like an eternity, almost unbearable, it stopped then came back again,

i felt like i had no claim on god, i knew i could call on god in sorrow or whatever before,

but now it seemed like i had all my cards played,

then what i was going through stopped,

later on that evening i went looking for an answer, and got it in the following words,

unless you eat and drink of the body and blood of the son of man, you will not have life within

Medina

But are you interpreting that literally as the wine and bread symbolically transformed and therefore go to Mass?

Or are you interpreting that as a message telling you to share in Christ's suffering for mankind...and suffer mankind yourself in a Christian way?

Or are you interpreting that means believe Jesus is the Son of God?

Or what way do you interpret those words?

turbot

Do you think this symbolises a form of canabalism?

If Jesus said that "This bread is my body" does that mean, in a not dissimilar fashion to the ginger man, that Jesuses body was made out of loaves of bread?

Does this mean that, by eating ginger bread biscuits, you will have life within, albeit ginger bread life?

Is a vegan allowed to have this bread, and in order to know do they need to define it as "bread" or "the body of christ"?

Is a vegetarian allowed to have this bread, because surely if it's the body and blood of christ, it's no longer bread?

Do you think as technology evolves, they'll adjust the bread to more closely resemble human flesh?

How do you think this ritual would be different if they substituted really nice cake, for bread?

How do you think this ritual would be different if they substituted chocolate for bread?

On special occassions, would it not be fitting that the blood of christ, was actually rose champagne?

If someone took the wine they say is blood, and drank a lot of it, would they get drunk?

djeddy

:cool: just trying to quote from memory an event that happened in my life all those years ago, :cool: