All the other Christian churches that don't use wine for the sacrament use grape juice or some use both. They could use grape juice to start acting more like a mainline Protestant church.
The LDS mormons use water, but the RLDS Restoration Banches, Community of Christ, the Church of Jesus Christ, and also the Church of Christ(tl) all use grape juice.
Not too sure about the other smaller mormon groups, though.
The Church of Jesus Christ (WHQ: Monongahela, Pennsylvania) has ALWAYS used WINE for sacrament as the BOM commands its use. Never have we ever used grape juice.
It's not because the church is cheep, or the deacons spill. It was believed the wine was being spiked by hallucinatory drugs that caused members to think they saw visions of angels. This was back in early church history!
People started finding out about the drugged wine, and insisted on using water.
According to D&C 89:5 they still use wine. Just like they still are polygamous. The profit may pick and choose the scriptures to obey, the members may turn off their brains and follow whatever the profit commands.
Thanks. Checking wiki I see it's the branch that followed Sidney Rigdon. Your President looks decades younger than any COJCOLDS has had since Brigham Young. ;-) I'll have to read up more later.
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Partaking of the flesh and blood of 'One Who is Alive Forevermore', aka, Jesus Christ, is not cannibalism (eating the flesh and blood of one who is dead). It is akin to receiving a Spirit-filled blood transfusion or Spirit-filled IV nutrients.
The Christain cult is really weird when you stand back and look at what's really gpoing on - drinking blood and eatng flesh, and I don't give a damn if it's someone supposedly dead or alive, it's effing disgusting. And to hell saying it's just symbolism, it's weird and disgusting symbolism. And what's with the obsession with the torture instrument - the cross? Yeah right, more flippin symbolism, to remind you that this dude was tortured and died for your sins? Sins that were created by the religion in the first place?? How can a baby be sinful?
As weird as they are, at least the Mos don't wear crosses.
@ lostinutah, The BOM says that ALL little children (including babies) are alive in Christ and have absolutely no sin whatsoever. This is their condition up to their age of accountability which we believe is somewhere in the teenage years.
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Today we partook of some of the best white bread (always without the crust and only on a crystal tray) and best red wine (from concord grapes and only in one crystal cup). Only the very best for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper because God gave His Best for us - His Only Begotten Son.
I don't know all the Mormon lingo, what does it mean to have the appearance of evil? How can grape juice appear evil? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm just puzzled
seriously though.. it is gross the way they just use regular tap water. Disgusting... really. Can't they at least use bottled or purified water? And seems like it's a rule to find the cheapest and the least healthy bread they can find. And this is the way the treat what is supposedly to be a very sacred act to them? As in many Mormon ways.. it's makes no sense.