Well, no-on does that!
Drinking wine to early
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I believe that nonsense was built up by the young church. Although the gospels do include Jesus in that primitive tradition I believe that this was written in to his story 'after the fact'.
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Study of the gospels over time leading to such decisions.
Conviction and certitude can't really be claimed after so long, and with such varying accounts.
But Jesus didn't seem to be the least interested in any kinds of sacrifice, simulated cannibalism etc.
Whilst I do think that Jesus the man lived, did hold a mission against a corrupted and greed filled Priesthood.......no more for me, really.
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I have no theory as to whether they were lying, exaggerating, gossiping, or anything else.
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Well theories of the Eucharist make it seem as if they do on some level
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At some level, yes, but not at the corporeal level ... if we were eating His flesh, or drinking His blood, then that body would have been used up millennia ago!
Mind you, to be fair, there was a time ... Christian exegesis in the West around the 1st millennium became quite morbid – a tutor once said you'd think the altars were running with blood – the focus on 'the body' became rather intense, they language hyperbolic.
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Well but if it is miraculous...At some level, yes, but not at the corporeal level ... if we were eating His flesh, or drinking His blood, then that body would have been used up millennia ago!
I used to speculate about what on earth they could possibly mean about the Eucharist turning into literal body and blood.
Well in a literal way it does AFTER the worshiper consumes it, it helps build their cells and blood, and the believers are the body of Christ so...
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I think it would be interesting. It may or may not be off topic given that it does refer to drinking wine, but perhaps it needs a new thread.