Blog 3 Minute Apologetics: Stuff Your Protestant Minister Never Told You About The Eucharist | 3 Minute Apologetics: Stuff Your Protestant Minister Never Told You About The Eucharist |
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| Written by Dan Wegner | ||
| Wednesday, 07 July 2010 | ||
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I was hanging with a buddy on Friday and the topic turned to eating Jesus. Yes, we Catholics claim to eat Jesus when we receive the Eucharist. My Protestant friend knew this and poo-poo'd the fact that I even brought it up. Being an expert at ignoring social cues, I plowed ahead and shared the idea that often when my boys were babies, I would pick them up nuzzle my nose into their bellies and threaten to eat them up! And I wanted to eat them up - without hurting them, of course. "Hmm" was my friends response, "I did that too." After that momentous victory I decided to build on that with some information that I had never heard as a Evangelical Protestant regarding the topic. you see, I had heard plenty of reasons against the Catholic position, but I can't remember a single concession or insight given in favor. Jesus did say "Unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot have life within you." and "My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink." (John 6). And while the topic has been brought up (by me) and argued against (by them) I never had any Evangelical tell me what it really meant - only that it didn't mean what Catholics said it meant. So, here's two of the more interesting items that I never heard as a Protestant: 1) We all know that Jesus was born in a Manger, but did we ever think what a manger is for? I love Italian food (mostly because it's food) and we can barely get through an Italian dish without someone yelling out "Mangi" (pronounced man-jeeh) meaning "eat". The manger is an eating thingie - and Jesus was laid in a manger. 2) We also all know Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Bethlehem, when translated from the Hebrew means "House of Bread". Right before Jesus tells us in we must eat him to have life, he tells us that he is "the bread of life". How appropriate for a man born in a bakery - a house of bread.
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