Drink the CUP, not the blood

Records of Last-Supper CUP-drinking communion are found in Matthew chapter 26, Mark chapter 14, Luke chapter 22, John chapters 4 and 6 and 7 (sort of), John chapter 13 (somewhat), and First Corinthians chapter 11.

[In John chapter 4 Jesus requests a 5-husband woman to drink from His Living Water (almost insinuating penis-sucking semen-swallowing fellatio) and John chapter 7 merely refers to people being invited to drink from Jesus so that the Spirit will flow out of those drinkers. John chapter 13 refers only to giving a dipped "morsel" to Judas Iscariot but the entire gospel of John states absolutely nothing about cup drinking].

Even though Jesus and Paul had a thing about wine making and/or wine tasting (John chapter 2 and I Timothy 5:23), nowhere is there any indication that a person should drink Christ's blood except in John chapter 6.

Speaking of John chapter 6, anyone except Jesus publicly declaring to His audience that they should eat His flesh and drink His blood would understandably not only be considered a kook, but a dangerous kook at that. Notably, Christ did not provide lances nor knives for the crowd to cannabalistically cut and lick nor stab and suck His blood. Privately, he did not even do so with His disciples, and even referred to his upcoming persecution as a "cup" He requested the Father to remove from Him.

In John chapter 6, Jesus called Himself "the bread of life." He did not specify whether whole wheat, rye, 7-grain, or enriched. Clearly, He was Wonder Bread. [Recall Him also calling Himself The Lightbulb of the World, The Good Cowboy, The True Vinoweed, etc.]. He did not present loaves in both hands to the people in referencing Himself as "the bread of life," nor did He pack a few loaves around His waist, terrorist-style, under His robe. He did not suggest that anyone eat His bread toasted or buttered.

Why certain sectarian religiously-minded presume that wine was contained or supposed to be contained in communion cups is puzzling, being that Matthew, Mark, and Luke all refer only to "fruit of the vine" (whatever that is). And, again, though drinking is commanded by Christ, merely the cup is specifically stated to be drunk rather than the contents....be that Chardonney, Merlot, Burgundy, Chablis, etc. of whatever brands.

Keep in mind that there is NO reference to eucharist in either The Apostles Creed nor The Nicene Creed, yet catholics, anglicans, and episcopalians (amongst others) make eucharist the high point and culmination of their worship service. The sensible and righteous are perplexed as to why so much importance is placed on such wafer nibbling and wine sipping as if such elements were the actual corpuscles-and-chromosomes body and blood of Christ being ingested (an obviously disgusting and unhealthy thought). [Remember the many Old-Testament and Acts chapter 15 commands to NEVER drink blood]! Not only that, but such cultic superstitious make such ingesting a "living sacrifice" apparently for the purpose of co-atoning for their own sins along with petitioning in prayer to pseudo-Intercessor Mary - an absurd, ludicrous, and blasphemous act indeed!

On the totem pole of value, how vital is it that people eat Christ's bread and drink His cup? Is it more important than obeying the Ten Commandments? Did the penitent dying thief on a cross do eucharist before he died and entered purgatory (excuse me: Paradise)? And how often must they so imbibe in order to not burn in Hell forever? Is such "sacrificing Christ's body back to Him" hideously overshadowing and overriding Christ's ONE-time Atonement OF Himself BY Himself for us - rather than conversely us for Him?

The Lord's divine presence can and should accompany the occasional eating of communion wafers and drinking of fruit-of-the-vine communion cups, but the emphasis is not simply on the questionably-blessed elements representing the spiritual (not DNA-coded physical) "body" and "blood." The SAVIOR saves because of what HE has done for US, whom we accept through faith - with or without the appetizers.