Should ALL Christians eat and drink the emblems of Jesus?

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Eloi wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 5:07 pm That's this topic about: Should ALL Christians partake of the symbols of Christ?

I don't think most Christians (much less people in general) know what the "emblems" are, much less what they represent. In my experience most Christians think you should drink the wine if you love Jesus and not drink it if you dont.

I have never met a non Witness that even acknowledges there are various different covenants in play.




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Every year, on the day that corresponds to Nisan 14 of the Jewish calendar, the JW commemorate the death of Jesus in the way that he instituted the day of his death: we pass from hand to hand the bread that represents his body and the wine that represents his blood. We JWs do not eat and drink from these emblems (wine and bread) in a general way but, only those among us who consider that they have a hope of going to heaven with Jesus participate (eat and drink)... Meanwhile, the rest observe and pass the emblems from hand to hand without eating or drinking, and thus thank Jesus' sacrifice while sharing with those who feel that hope of going to heaven, which is different from the hope of the immense most of the JWs to live in the terrestrial paradise as human beings of flesh and blood.

This year the celebration will take place on April 4 after it starts to get dark, and the public invitation can be found here https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/memorial/

Although only about 20,000 of the JWs ate and drank of these emblems during the memorial last year, the diferent denominations of Christendom teach their members that they should ALL eat of the bread and drink of the wine. There are even some religious leaders that practice this celebration several times every year.

Considering that the calling of certain people to that future is a different covenant that God and Jesus specifically make with those people individually ... the question of this topic has to do with whether all Christians should partake of the emblems, or should only certain people who receive God's call to be brothers of Christ in heaven instead of living in the earthly paradise in the future like most humans will.

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[Replying to Eloi in post #1]

You make some very good points in your OP. I agree.....the only ones who partake of the emblems are the anointed Christians who will rule with Christ in heaven after the Great Tribulation. It is with them that Jesus made a covenant, not the "other sheep."

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Peace to you,

All of Israel ate the manna (of which Christ is the TRUE manna from heaven). All of Israel drank from the same spiritual rock (that is Christ).


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