I grew up in one of the former communistic countries, where Atheism is not a nonsens and a lot of young people consider themselves satanists, so I am not very shoked with neopaganism, but shoked how many of you are coming from catholic background.
My grandparents was not very religious, so my...
It does NOT seem to me to be metaphoric! First because in the other place Jesus says : Who does not eat my flesh and does not drink my blood will not enter the Kindom - too much for merely a symbol! Secondly if you ever had a real Eucharist, you would know that it is real body and blood, my soul...
Love of God does not come from us, we are not able to love God if He does not grant this to us. What we can do is to ask HIm to teach us and to give us love. I do not think it is easy to achive and Holy Fathers teach that love of God is an ultimate virtue.
I am a christian, however I am still afraid of death, afraid of pain and beside I can not know for sure if God will find me worthy to dwell in his glory. I hope in his mercy, but still your fate after death is unknown until it actually comes.
I think your story is not funny at all as some people say, but very scary... and I think deep in your heart you know that. I am an orthodox christian and we have a communion with leaved bread and wine, so it is hard for me to imagine that you could not swollow the communion. Honestly my first...