Eternally Grateful
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You keep referring to the his flesh and blood. what about the rest of the passage, the bread of Life.Ummmm.......I thought I did that!!! But I must be mistaken so here we go....
There is no need to break down each verse you quoted. The summary of the Bread of Life discourse is that Jesus was telling his disciples that they must eat Him and drink His blood if they want to have eternal life (raise up on the last day, have eternal life). In Vs 48-49 he equated himself to real bread (manna) and that we must eat this bread (literally gnaw, chew) to have eternal life. In vs 62 Jesus is conveying that the eternal-life-giving nature of the bread/wine is possible because he is God. In John 6:63, Jesus reaffirms this point: “It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life”. Jesus implicitly reaffirms his teaching on eating him, conveying that his human nature on its own could not provide eternal life, but united with his divine person, it can.
Also. even if we stick to the flesh and blood
Jesus said: 54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
He did not say may have eternal life. he said they do.
He did not say he might raise them up the last day, He said he would
6 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
He did not say he who keeps feeding on him, He said whoever feeds on him will live as he lives because of him,
He also said they will live forever.
Jesus did NOY say whoever ate would recieve those things. And he did not tell us how to do it. Peter even understood what the flesh and blood was (the words I speak are spirit and truth)Shortly after Jesus TOLD us that we must eat/drink him he SHOWED us how to do it at the Last Supper. He told us what to do and then he showed us how to do it. Paul makes it clear 30 years after His death they were still doing what He told them to do.
No. Paul did not re-afirm that message. He spoke of a ceremony which represented Christ, and a ceremony to do in remembrance of him.. who gave his life that we who believe will have eternal lifeAs I stated earlier, 30 years later Paul re-affirmed that message.
NopeAbout 50 years after that a student of the Apostle John (who's words you are quoting) re-affirmed that message.
That means for the first 80 years of recorded Christian history Christians practiced what Jeus taught in John 6 and re-affirmed at the Last Supper. You reject those first 80 years. Me and my Church gladly embrace them.
To suggest that He meant we are to mentally chew, gnaw on His words is.......not true.
Mary
Because no one else told us that eating the communion will grant the one who eats eternal life. and assure that they will be raised on the last day..
Again, Study the passage, not what men tell you