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What do you think Jesus meant when he said to eat of his flesh and drink of his blood?
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But here it goes... Jesus wants us to desrie to be like Him so much that we would desire to eat and drink his flesh. That we would go to any extremes to be like Him. The reason we should be like Him is because God deserves to be glorifyed. We are designed to glorify God, with every word, every action, should glorify God. Even everthing that God does Glorifyies His name. That is in essence what sin is. Because Sin is translated to mean missing the mark. It is often used in Baseball. But anyways, so yes, we are designed to Glorify God and we should desire to Glorify God to any extreme. It also...
describes the relationship that we have with God. God came down as Jesus and offered Himself to us. Eating his flesh is symbolic of accepting the sacrifice and that in turn sacrifice ourselves back to Him
That is just my thought, and I probably missed the mark, because I don't have an extensive background in studying the word, but from the knowlege that I have about this issue this is what I have come up with
By Jesus saying, ...eat my flesh and drink of my blood..." he means that only through him will we have eternal life. Sin is heavily connected to this. Sin, as anonymous said is missing the mark or disobeying God. If people don't understand Genesis 3 its hard to grasp this. As Anonymous said we are made in God's image and likeness and because we are separated from God we sin. Sin=Death. By Jesus' substitutionary death on the cross he took our place so that we don't have to die. There's so many more parts to this, but by first accepting that you are sinful, and that you can have eternal life by "eating flesh and drinking blood" is very important.
in so many words "Eat Flesh, Drink Blood" is a synonym for the Christian Life. Yay!
I got into something of a dust-up with some non-denominational types over the issue of the Old Covenant and the Church's teaching that the Old Covenant between God and the Jewish people is fixed and irrevocable, and that the Jewish people who live in that covenant offer up a response to God as well.
Essentially, it's a teaching that the salvation Christ brings extends also to the Jews, the first to hear the Word of God, by means of the Old Covenant and the law of Moses. I'm sure the good Reader can see why such an idea would trigger a good dust-up with those who take a rather simpler view of the Christian faith.
Now, the Reader can relax a bit: I'm not going to go into a lengthy explanation of the Catholic position today. But I wanted to remark on something I tripped over on my stroll through the blogs this morning, which I think is relevant.
Key to all of this is the covenant ratification ceremony of Exodus 24--a passage Jesus' likely alludes to at the Last Supper:
Mark 14:23: "And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. [24] And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many" (cf. Matt 26:28).
Exod 24:8: "And Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words." [Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on this verse reads, "This is the blood of the covenant"].
Much could be said here [wait for my dissertation!], but suffice it to say, if Jesus is linking the Eucharist with Exodus 24 the implications are huge.
If the Sinai experience was a Temple experience in which God's presence came to be with His people, how much more real is God's presence with His people in the Eucharistic celebration?
The short answer would be: very real, perhaps even terrifyingly real. I previously discussed the institution of the Eucharist by Christ, and His revelation in the breaking of the bread, from a purely Scriptural point of view, and would suggest to the Reader that it is beyond doubt that Christ does literally become present in the bread and wine in the Mass. It's still a bold declaration of faith to say so, but Scripture supports the conjecture.
Some Catholics probably also understand the Eucharist as a re-participation in the New Covenant that Christ instituted at His Last Supper. But perhaps there is a deeper significance, one that relates the New Covenant back to the old, and thus makes the Eucharist a re-participation in that older promise between God and man as well.
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But here it goes... Jesus wants us to desrie to be like Him so much that we would desire to eat and drink his flesh. That we would go to any extremes to be like Him. The reason we should be like Him is because God deserves to be glorifyed. We are designed to glorify God, with every word, every action, should glorify God. Even everthing that God does Glorifyies His name. That is in essence what sin is. Because Sin is translated to mean missing the mark. It is often used in Baseball. But anyways, so yes, we are designed to Glorify God and we should desire to Glorify God to any extreme. It also...
describes the relationship that we have with God. God came down as Jesus and offered Himself to us. Eating his flesh is symbolic of accepting the sacrifice and that in turn sacrifice ourselves back to Him
That is just my thought, and I probably missed the mark, because I don't have an extensive background in studying the word, but from the knowlege that I have about this issue this is what I have come up with
By Jesus saying, ...eat my flesh and drink of my blood..." he means that only through him will we have eternal life. Sin is heavily connected to this. Sin, as anonymous said is missing the mark or disobeying God. If people don't understand Genesis 3 its hard to grasp this. As Anonymous said we are made in God's image and likeness and because we are separated from God we sin. Sin=Death. By Jesus' substitutionary death on the cross he took our place so that we don't have to die. There's so many more parts to this, but by first accepting that you are sinful, and that you can have eternal life by "eating flesh and drinking blood" is very important.
in so many words "Eat Flesh, Drink Blood" is a synonym for the Christian Life. Yay!
I got into something of a dust-up with some non-denominational types over the issue of the Old Covenant and the Church's teaching that the Old Covenant between God and the Jewish people is fixed and irrevocable, and that the Jewish people who live in that covenant offer up a response to God as well.
Essentially, it's a teaching that the salvation Christ brings extends also to the Jews, the first to hear the Word of God, by means of the Old Covenant and the law of Moses. I'm sure the good Reader can see why such an idea would trigger a good dust-up with those who take a rather simpler view of the Christian faith.
Now, the Reader can relax a bit: I'm not going to go into a lengthy explanation of the Catholic position today. But I wanted to remark on something I tripped over on my stroll through the blogs this morning, which I think is relevant.
At the end of a post that begins with a discussion of the tripartite division of the Temple, and how this relates to Mount Sinai, Michael Barber notes that there is a certain parallelism in the words Moses uses in bestowing the Old Covenant on the people, and the words that Christ uses in giving the New Covenant in His blood:
Key to all of this is the covenant ratification ceremony of Exodus 24--a passage Jesus' likely alludes to at the Last Supper:
Mark 14:23: "And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. [24] And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many" (cf. Matt 26:28).
Exod 24:8: "And Moses took the blood and threw it upon the people, and said, "Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words." [Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on this verse reads, "This is the blood of the covenant"].
Much could be said here [wait for my dissertation!], but suffice it to say, if Jesus is linking the Eucharist with Exodus 24 the implications are huge.
If the Sinai experience was a Temple experience in which God's presence came to be with His people, how much more real is God's presence with His people in the Eucharistic celebration?
The short answer would be: very real, perhaps even terrifyingly real. I previously discussed the institution of the Eucharist by Christ, and His revelation in the breaking of the bread, from a purely Scriptural point of view, and would suggest to the Reader that it is beyond doubt that Christ does literally become present in the bread and wine in the Mass. It's still a bold declaration of faith to say so, but Scripture supports the conjecture.
Some Catholics probably also understand the Eucharist as a re-participation in the New Covenant that Christ instituted at His Last Supper. But perhaps there is a deeper significance, one that relates the New Covenant back to the old, and thus makes the Eucharist a re-participation in that older promise between God and man as well.
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