| > Can't a lunatic be a great moral teacher? To follow this lunatic you have to eat his flesh. From John 6: > 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” > 52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” > 53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” * https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%206&versio... Similarly at the Last Supper, where he also instructs his followers to drink his blood: > 27 Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 This is my blood of the[b] covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. * https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2026&ve... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supper#Institution_of_the... Some folks (even Christians, like some Protestant denominations) believe it is meant to be symbolic, but the earliest Christians did not take it symbolically: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_presence_of_Christ_in_the... |