Origin of the Eucharist Origin of the Eucharist Church teaching places the origin of the Eucharist in the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, at which he is believed to have taken bread and given it to his disciples, telling them to eat of it, because it was his body, and to have taken a cup and given it to his disciples, telling them to drink of it because it was the cup of the covenant in his blood. The earliest extant written account of a Christian "eucharistia" (Greek: thanksgiving) is that in the First Epistle to the Corinthians (around AD 55), in
Religious text variations such as "Holy Writ", "Holy Scripture" or "Sacred Scripture" are defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as terms which specifically apply to Biblical text and the Christian tradition. Hierographology (Ancient Greek: ἱερός, "hieros", "sacred" or "holy"; γραφή, "graphe", "writing"; λόγος, "logos", "word" or "reason") (archaically also 'hierology') is the study of sacred texts. The following is an in-exhaustive list of links to specific religious texts which may be used for further, more in-depth study. Books by Bahá'u'lláh Each four Kirati people have their own Scripture. Various New Age religions may regard any of the following texts as inspired: Non-LaVeyan