Re: Why is wine a symbol

p6fuller® · 2023-11-27T02:10:04.677Z

Of the blood of Christ? His first miracle, he turned water into wine. In that he made something unclean into something that was clean. Is it color? Is it being compared to the "blood" of the Earth?

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Nov 27, 2023, 2:49 AM

Sometimes folks forget just how Jewish Jesus was. And since he viewed his death as the ultimate and final sacrifice and offering to God, the symbology of his death is reflective of a typical Jewish sacrifice in some ways.

There were several types of Jewish sacrifices, and Jesus was well aware of all of them. He was in Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover Festival specifically when he was arrested. There were regular burnt offerings, a peace offering, a guilt offering, a sin offering, etc., in addition to seasonal and annual Festival and Holiday offerings. Many, many, types of offerings and sacrifices depending on the need or occasion. Plus, there were food offerings, wine offerings, and of course, money offerings.

Since blood and meat were essential to most offerings (sacrifices were kind of a daily, community picnic for God, and most of the meat was eaten...that which wasn't burned for God), Jesus associated the blood and meat with wine and bread.

So as odd as it seems, even though Jesus's D&R ended the need for actual ongoing sacrifices, Communion is sort of an ongoing symbolic sacrifice. Every time one ritually takes of the bread and wine, they are in effect ritually recognizing that blood and meat are no longer necessary for salvation. So a perpetual Jewish ritual has been replaced with a perpetual Christian symbolic one. Communion is a great ritual that nicely shows the Jewish roots to Christianity.

The eating of the bread is a direct symbolic connection with eating the animal sacrifices. But the blood is a bit different. Drinking blood was (and still is) a major taboo for the Jews. So why did Jesus make that connection with wine? Idk.

But my guess is this. Blood was also considered the life-giving force in many early religions. So since Jesus was promising eternal life by faith in him, substituting wine for blood was a good way to symbolize his ability to give eternal life to a believer.

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a purification solution to bad water. It was 'mingled,' so a quick google search of mingled in the Bible will show the significance of wine to everyone. Any alcohol product will do but wine was the most available.

The tradition of mingling wine is what Americans criticized Europeans less than a century ago for allowing wine to their children, drinking being a sin and all. As water purification technology advanced the traditions continue but the wine isn't mingled today. None of that is on topic other than to say that Americans didn't traditionally suffer bad water.

The important part is wine being a purification solution which is the best representative in this world as the blood of Christ. That's the bottom line on this subject, to me.

Why is wine a symbol

google "The Last Supper" ... that should answer your question.***

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