Originally posted by Ironside:
everyday you got eucharist..........so everyday you are
sacrificing the Lord Jesus IN AN UNBLOODY WAY NOT PHYSICALLY BUT
SPIRIUTALLY IT IS A REAL SACRIFICE over and over again right?
SO ARE YOU ADMITTING MY FRIEND THAT EVERYDAY YOUR PRIESTS PUT TO
DEATH THE LORD JESUS OVER AND OVER AGAIN?
Heb 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,
and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the
Holy Spirit,
5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to
come,
6 if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance,
[b]since they crucify
again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open
shame.
[/b]
Let's see this from another angle
They say that in John 6 Jesus was not talking about physical food
and drink, but about spiritual food and drink. They quote John
6:35: "Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he who comes to
me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never
thirst." They claim that coming to him is bread, having faith in
him is drink. Thus, eating his flesh and blood merely means
believing in Christ.
But there is a problem with that interpretation. As Fr. John A.
OBrien explains, "The phrase to eat the flesh and drink the
blood, when used figuratively among the Jews, as among the Arabs
of today, meant to inflict upon a person some serious injury,
especially by calumny or by false accusation. To interpret the
phrase figuratively then would be to make our Lord promise life
everlasting to the culprit for slandering and hating him, which
would reduce the whole passage to utter nonsense" (OBrien, The
Faith of Millions, 215). For an example of this use, see Micah
3:3.
Fundamentalist writers who comment on John 6 also assert that one
can show Christ was speaking only metaphorically by comparing
verses like John 10:9 ("I am the door") and John 15:1 ("I am the
true vine"). The problem is that there is not a connection to John
6:35, "I am the bread of life." "I am the door" and "I am the vine"
make sense as metaphors because Christ is like a doorwe go to
heaven through himand he is also like a vinewe get our spiritual
sap through him. But Christ takes John 6:35 far beyond symbolism by
saying, "For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed"
(John 6:55).
He continues: "As the living Father sent me, and I live because of
the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me" (John 6:57).
The Greek word used for "eats" (trogon) is very blunt and has the
sense of "chewing" or "gnawing." This is not the language of
metaphor.
taken from :
http://catholic.com/library/Christ_in_the_Eucharist.asp
