The Importance of the Eucharist

Christ's disciples would have been familiar with the rituals of circumcision and the sacrificial lamb, both of which involve actual physical blood. They understood immediately that christ was transforming these rituals into something purely symbolic. Edre est credere luther saw things differently. With the incarnation of god as a human atthe centre of his religious imagination. He embraced the idea that the same thing could be both spiritual and physical. The tinglian motto, to eat is to believe, sounds better in latin.