We LDS types take the Sacrament (Communion) every Sunday and it is a wonderful uplifting Spiritual blessing. We use bread and water. If you want to argue about why we drink water instead of WINE or grape juice, well, of course, Mormons don’t drink alcohol so there goes the wine, and grape juice is not always readily available in poor places but water is. We take the Sacramento to remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ - His Body and Blood - given for us to save us from our sins. Jesus Christ told us to do it to remember Him and His sacrifice on our behalf.
I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is my Savior, Lord, Redeemer and I love Him.
Yikes! I typed “Sacramento” when I meant Sacrament in the previous post. Ooops! I probably have Sacramento on my mind because so much goofy stuff happens there that needs to be watched.
Well, I hope you don't drink orange juice or use mouthwash.
Laboratory samplings of commonly consumed fruit juices and sugar-based soft drinks purchased from a supermarket (and tested right from the carton the day they were put on the store shelf) all showed measurable amounts of ethanol, up to 0.1 percent.
So if you want to be consistent, you will not drink any fresh fruit drink or soft drink. Frankly I never understood the LDS idea that you could substitute water for the fruit of the vine. While you might have an argument that you should use grape juice (since it is the fruit of the vine), there is no biblical basis that I can even imagine for using tap water.
Now in that regard, I can't help but notice that the Catholics have solved this problem by removing the wine from the sacrament altogether. So MHG, is it truly a biblical Eucharist if there is no wine???
Do you (MHG) think that so many Catholics might be converting to Mormonism because the Church has refused to give them the whole Eucharist (body and blood)?
Or is the blood superfluous?