• Hoodoir
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    15 hours ago

    Christ isn’t a demigod in Christianity; He’s God incarnate, fully God and fully Human. So we eat God directly. I can’t explain how with any precision as I’m not a trained and experienced theologian with the credentials to make the “how” statements, but we do eat God.

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      14 hours ago

      Some Christians don’t believe that Jesus is God so they wouldn’t be eating God. Also I think eating Jesus is mostly a catholic thing

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        Anyone who doesn’t believe that Jesus is entirely God isn’t a Christian. That’s not gatekeeping, its like saying someone can reject the prophet Muhammad and still be a Muslim. It just wouldn’t be true.

        I’m an Orthodox Christian, and we definitely eat God every Sunday. The Lutherans also believe they eat God but they define it more like we do than the Roman Catholics do. The Anglicans usually agree with the Catholics on how they eat God. Beyond just the groups named, I’m fairly certain no one else truly eats God’s flesh.

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          Unitarians are weird. They don’t believe in the trinity, but are Christian, but also merged with a non-Christian sect to form Unitarian Univalersalism.

          But also, Catholics and most Protestants have a very different view on the Eucharist. Catholics believe in Transubstantiation, where the bread and wine become the literal body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist, whereas many Protestant sects either see the Eucharist as symbolic of the body and blood and Christ’s sacrifice, or something in between (Consubstantiation or Calvin’s very complicated take).

          It also helps explain modern Catholocism’s stance that Protestants aren’t allowed to take part in the Eucharist. It’s not just a remnant of the old adversarial relationship between the sects, but different beliefs on what the sacrament is. They want everyone taking part in the ritual to understand it.

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            12 hours ago

            Anyone who doesn’t believe the earth is flat isn’t a flatearther. Anyone who doesn’t believe in the flying Spaghetti Monster isn’t a pastafarian.

            Definitions carry value and determine what something/someone is or isn’t