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To: Mrs. Don-o; MHGinTN; metmom; RnMomof7; Springfield Reformer; Mark17

#115 changes nothing. It was still a sin against the law for Jesus and the apostles to eat blood. Had Jesus eaten real blood and encouraged others to do so He would have been sinning and would NOT have been the sinless sacrifice. The belief in physically eating the flesh of their gods is pagan in origin.


119 posted on 06/26/2015 2:44:18 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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Please do not persist in misunderstanding. Pagans may well have believed in and practiced some sort of "sacred cannibalism": eating anatomically identifiable, dead body parts.

Cannibalism has nothing in common with the Christian Eucharist. The Eucharist has no identifiable "anatomy". We aren't eating "parts." And He isn't "dead."

The charge of cannibalism is exactly the error the early Christians knew the Roman pagans would make, which is one reason why they had their Eucharists in secret. The pagan mentality just wouldn't "get" it. That's why one of the oldest Eucharistic hymns we have, says "Ponder nothing earthly-minded." Now that you can see the different criteria which distinguish two quite different things --- Eucharist and cannibalism --- please do not repeat the mistake of conflating the two.

121 posted on 06/26/2015 2:54:12 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stop disputing about words. It serves no useful purpose since it harms those who listen. 2 Tim 2:1)
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