Author Topic: The Bible (Read 28663 times)

DQ12 · « **Reply #275 on:** January 16, 2017, 04:48:58 PM »

I think you should've listened harder unless you're eastern orthodox.

From my understanding, protestants' communion is a symbolic thing wherein they receive a wafer and grape juice to symbolically represent Jesus' sacrifice, the last supper, etc.

Whereas Catholics believe that they are consuming the actual flesh and blood of Christ.

Rage Against the McKee · « **Reply #276 on:** January 16, 2017, 04:50:39 PM »

Well, at the last supper, Christ referenced the bread as his body and the wine as his blood. So symbolically representing the last supper is the same thing. Unless you literally mean you think you are eating skin instead of bread or something.

star seed 7 · « **Reply #277 on:** January 16, 2017, 04:52:12 PM »

I thought cannibalism is a sin

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #278 on:** January 16, 2017, 04:52:52 PM »

So like the Catholic church at the Vatican has a room that they have been keeping Jesus' body in and they just send out tiny parts of it to each church?

I guess it doesn't get all used up because they use the same magic as with the fish and loaves of bread?

DQ12 · « **Reply #279 on:** January 16, 2017, 04:53:26 PM »

Quote from: Rage Against the McKee on January 16, 2017, 04:50:39 PM

Well, at the last supper, Christ referenced the bread as his body and the wine as his blood. So symbolically representing the last supper is the same thing. Unless you literally mean you think you are eating skin instead of bread or something.

I'm definitely no theologian so I don't want to split hairs too thin here, but it's laid out in the wiki link Chingon posted re. transubstantiation.

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #280 on:** January 16, 2017, 04:55:48 PM »

Oh it is more like when Jesus turned water into wine. One second it was water then suddenly it was wine.

So one second it is a wafer and then suddenly it is a piece of a 2000 years dead guy.

sys · « **Reply #281 on:** January 16, 2017, 05:01:53 PM »

Quote from: Mrs. Gooch on January 16, 2017, 04:55:48 PM

one second it is a wafer and then suddenly it is a piece of a 2000 years dead guy.

i think it's his living body.

mocat · « **Reply #282 on:** January 16, 2017, 05:05:39 PM »

Quote from: Dlew12 on January 16, 2017, 04:48:58 PM

From my understanding, protestants' communion is a symbolic thing wherein they receive a wafer and grape juice to symbolically represent Jesus' sacrifice, the last supper, etc.

Whereas Catholics believe that they are consuming the actual flesh and blood of Christ.

this is accurate from my experience. although sometimes it's bread that you rip off and dip into wine

sys · « **Reply #283 on:** January 16, 2017, 05:10:59 PM »

Quote from: mocat on January 16, 2017, 05:05:39 PM

Quote from: Dlew12 on January 16, 2017, 04:48:58 PM
From my understanding, protestants' communion is a symbolic thing wherein they receive a wafer and grape juice to symbolically represent Jesus' sacrifice, the last supper, etc.

Whereas Catholics believe that they are consuming the actual flesh and blood of Christ.

this is accurate from my experience. although sometimes it's bread that you rip off and dip into wine

not all of them. methodists, for example, believe in the real presence of christ within the food. the food isn't transformed, but neither is it symbolic.

Asteriskhead · « **Reply #284 on:** January 16, 2017, 05:48:28 PM »

Quote from: Dlew12 on January 16, 2017, 04:48:58 PM

I think you should've listened harder unless you're eastern orthodox.

From my understanding, protestants' communion is a symbolic thing wherein they receive a wafer and grape juice to symbolically represent Jesus' sacrifice, the last supper, etc.

Whereas Catholics believe that they are consuming the actual flesh and blood of Christ.

I was raised Methodist. Every church I attended used the juice and bread as a symbol. I don't know every protestant's experience tho.

Asteriskhead · « **Reply #285 on:** January 16, 2017, 05:51:23 PM »

lib, I have a few bibles from my church going days, if you would like to borrow one. I'd say the four books of the gospel are fairly important to read, regardless of whatever bias you have going into it.

mocat · « **Reply #286 on:** January 16, 2017, 05:57:48 PM »

yeah Jesus said a lot of awesome stuff

bucket · « **Reply #287 on:** January 16, 2017, 06:12:06 PM »

Michael Bay should make a movie, "Revelations." I would watch that.

Asteriskhead · « **Reply #288 on:** January 16, 2017, 07:09:06 PM »

Quote from: mocat on January 16, 2017, 05:57:48 PM

yeah Jesus said a lot of awesome stuff

He is credited with many great things.

wetwillie · « **Reply #289 on:** January 16, 2017, 09:10:28 PM »

If you want to read a book that reads like sys wrote it then Job is your man.

steve dave · « **Reply #290 on:** January 17, 2017, 07:57:11 AM »

I've read the King James (alpha Protestant bible version fwiw) cover to cover multiple times. AMA.

steve dave · « **Reply #291 on:** January 17, 2017, 07:59:29 AM »

Noah. If you don't read a lot of bible pages and junk you'd assume he was a pretty major character in the Bible amarite? Nah, he only gets a few pages. His story is just one of the headline grabbers to get your attention so the church flaunts it like some hot POA.

steve dave · « **Reply #292 on:** January 17, 2017, 08:00:48 AM »

David. He's a good guy in the Bible. But he does tons of stuff that doesn't seem like good guy stuff. That's just one example, tons of the "good guys" in the Bible are awful pieces of trash.

steve dave · « **Reply #293 on:** January 17, 2017, 08:02:18 AM »

Jesus. One day he's saying give to Caesar what is Caesars and the next he's losing his crap manic style and flipping over tax collector tables and whipping people. Bi-polar?

steve dave · « **Reply #294 on:** January 17, 2017, 08:03:30 AM »

Also, booze. It's involved in tons of stuff. Jesus makes it for people to get blackout when they are so blasted they can't even go get more. Pretty solid endorsement for booze=good imo.

steve dave · « **Reply #295 on:** January 17, 2017, 08:05:10 AM »

You know what's a great story in the Bible that gets very little press? When the demon is inside the person and it gets cast out of them and put into an entire herd of pigs and the pigs go bonkers and suicide off a cliff. WTF Bible. Where did that come from?

steve dave · « **Reply #296 on:** January 17, 2017, 08:05:48 AM »

Quote from: steve dave on January 17, 2017, 08:03:30 AM

Also, booze. It's involved in tons of stuff. Jesus makes it for people to get blackout when they are so blasted they can't even go get more. Pretty solid endorsement for booze=good imo.

Except one time it's used by a chick so she can do sex with her dad. That was a lowlight.

steve dave · « **Reply #297 on:** January 17, 2017, 08:09:20 AM »

Revelations. Nobody even knows who wrote it. So like this obvious bad boomer trip written by some mystery dude gets allowed in?

steve dave · « **Reply #298 on:** January 17, 2017, 08:09:44 AM »

Confession: I usually skip all the poetry books.

steve dave · « **Reply #299 on:** January 17, 2017, 08:12:41 AM »

That part where it starts going through the family tree of the dude and you realize all of his ancestors lived to be like 500 years old...lol ok