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Darknight613 said:As for this particular case with the wheat crackers, it's difficult for me to understand the rationale behind this church's ruling. In Judaism, if there's a health issue involved, not only are you allowed to work around it, you're actually supposed to. You're not obligated to deliberately endanger your health, even to perform one of the commandments. If you need to eat on a fast day, not only are you allowed to, but many of the rabbis believe that you have to (however, they also say that if this happens, you need to make up the fast as soon as you're able to.) If it means you don't get points for doing one of the commandments, take the hit. You ask forgiveness from G-d, you follow the other commandments, etc. On Passover, if for health reasons you can't eat regular matzah, you're allowed to eat special matzah suitable for your diet (which are now available) to fullfill the commandment of eating matzah on Passover. G-d understands the circumstances, and isn't going to hold it against you because of legitimate health issues.

So from my personal point of view and the point of view of Judiasm, I can't understand the logic of this church's decision.



Exactly! Christianity's, more or less, the same. No one will force you to eat/do something harmful to yourself. I don't know of a reason why, if someone were to have a dietary problem with what's normally being served for communion, that the church wouldn't work with them instead of against them. After all, communion is the representation of the last supper, not a recreation of it. That's why it's held the first week of community nights, of the month, in my church. Every church I've been to and taken communion there, they've always done it the same way, with the same things, grape juice and oyster crackers, or what they're doing at my church now.

To me, when a church is run like the Catholic church is, having rules that go against the Bible, then that's not right. To stray a bit here, confession is something that's to be done between yourelf and God, not in a confessional. Prayer is another niggle of mine. We're taught that prayer is to be between ourselves and God, no other person/saint.

It's a rented tux ok? I'm not going comando in another man's fatigues.