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
Christian ethics the Ten Commandments often figure prominently in Christian ethics. "The Prophets ground their appeals for right conduct in God's demand for righteousness." On the other hand, "It is not... true to say that for the OT writers righteousness is "defined" by what God does; i.e., an act is not made righteous by the fact that God does it. Also noted as ethical guidelines adhered to by Old Testament figures is "maintenance of the "family"", "safeguarding of the family "property"", and "maintenance of the community". Much of Christian ethics derives from Biblical scripture and Christians have always considered the Bible profitable