Is communion cannibalism?
Jesus Christ, all the apostles, and the Catholic Church know that Jesus was speaking literally here. No symbols. No parables. No cannibals. Just miracles. All you folks who follow later religious traditions simply weren’t there, so you don’t have all the facts. Jesus is God. He can do stuff like this with no problem. He reconstituted the rotting corps of Lazarus by his word. He made a complete set of eyes for a blind man, plus all the nerves and brain parts necessary to make them work, out of common dirt and spittle. He fed 5,000 people with two fish and a few loaves of bread. None of this was symbolic. What’s the big problem with transforming a little bread and a little wine into his glorified and resurrected body and blood? O ye of little faith! Regarding eating his body and drinking his blood: At the last supper, all Jesus was doing was explaining the original purpose of the Jewish Passover meal ritual, and bringing it to fulfilment. Jesus IS the lamb of God. At the first Passover,