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Jesus in John 1 3 4 5 and 6 said the same thing, gave the same messageThe Gospel is PART of the New Covenant. Jesus never said to eat the Gospel. One an choose to go along with what was not formally contested for 11+ centuries, or follow the innovative traditions of men. It is by supernatural faith to realize the Real Presence Of Jesus in the consecrated Bread and Wine, not by arguing in forums. Anyone can have supernatural faith, but you have to cooperate with God's grace.
Eucharistic Index - The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist
Introduction to the Eucharist, the Eucharist in Scripture, the Eucharist and Vatican II, Eucharistic Miracles, the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration, and evidence proving that the Early Christians believed in the Real Presence.www.therealpresence.org
I agreeAs common an idea as this is, it is not a known fact. In fact, we don't know for sure who wrote any of the gospels. Since you are focusing on traditions, it's only fair to mention that it is a traditionally held opinion to attribute the four gospels to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John-- without knowing for sure. Is it possible? Sure. Could it be some other Matthew, and not the tax collector disciple? Sure. Could Mark have been written by the disciple named John, who was called Mark? Sure. Could there have been more than one John? For certain. Just as there was more than one James and even Jesus. (Joshua). The gospel of John is distinctly different than the three other gospels called synoptic (seen together) accounts.
There are highly regarded scholars who have posited that the gospel of John was recorded by someone named John, but the one the gospel calls the beloved disciple was actually none other than Mary Magdelene, and this gospel is her account of recollections and musings about Jesus and his life. The point is, it's not settled and it doesn't matter.
I look forward to your posts and conclusions. Don't be so hasty about the latter.
Because I do not see anything in the rest of John 1 or 2 which would add to the conversation.I'm curious. Why did you choose to start in John 3 if you are wanting full context? You plucked one single concept out of a myriad presented in John 1, then skipped John 2 entirely, to begin in John 3? Why?
Don't you think there is anything important presented in John 1 or 2? For example-- It's recorded that Jesus was confronted in the temple courts by the Jewish leaders who were demanding some sort of sign from him since he was presenting himself as some sort of prophet-- tipping over the tables and driving out the money lenders and such.... He said destroy this temple and I will rebuild it in three days.
But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body. So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.
And that's key context. Even those who were the very closest to him didn't believe and receive until after he was raised from the dead. This is so important and it's a set up for the conversation to come with Nicodemus regarding what it means to be born again. Not stated, but contextually, being born again, requires the destruction of your temple. You have to first die, to be born again. You won't dig this out of anyone's "traditions" that I know of.
No, you don't. You could at least brows the link I posted. We are discussing the Eucharist, not your off topic flawed view of Tradition.I hear you Illuminator,
There is no physicality in the Bible?But my faith doesn't rest in anything physical in this world. My faith is in the Lord who's presence is felt in my heart and soul through the Holy Spirit.
Everything in this world is only temporal.
![]() | Fig. 1 - Eosine x 200. Overall histological aspect of a Flesh sample with fibers collected in bundles with longitudinal orientation as it occurs in the outer surface layers of the heart. |
![]() | Fig. 2 - Miracle Heart in Lanciano. Mallory x 250. An artery and, very close, a branch of the vagal nerve. |
![]() | Fig. 3 - Miracle Heart in Lanciano. Mallory x 400. Evidence of the "Rough" aspect of the endocardium; the syncytoid structure of the myocardial tissue |
![]() | Fig. 4 - Elution-absorption test x 80. Above: Hemagglutination test on blood sample in Lanciano: on the left, anti A serum used; on the right, anti-B serum. Below: hemoagglutination test on a Flesh sample in Lanciano: left, with anti-A serum, right,with anti-B serum. It appears thus that the Flesh and the Blood in Lanciano belong to AB blood group. |
![]() | Fig. 5 - Electro-phoretic pattern of Blood proteins (Cromoscan photometer). The profile of serum fractions is normal and superimposable to that of a fresh serum sample. |
ok before you get upset.. please continue with the posts Ive been posting.No, you don't. You could at least brows the link I posted. We are discussing the Eucharist, not your off topic flawed view of Tradition.
There is no physicality in the Bible?
The human mind, and perhaps especially the `spiritual’ mind, has a deep-running suspicion of anything that really does bridge the gulf between spirit and matter . . . All transcendentalists, logicians, Buddhists, and Manichaeans hate this sort of thing. We must keep spirit and matter in two different realms, they urge.
Here's another link you won't read.
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How the Satanic Black Mass Proves the Truth of Catholicism
There have been a number of stories in the news lately of small Satanic groups publicly performing so-called “Black Masses.” These rituals are based on the Catholic mass but are inverted toward Satan and often involve the desecration of a Eucharistic host. This sort of thing is evil and shouldwww.churchpop.com
Out of hundreds of Eucharistic Miracles throughout history, this one is my favorite.
Ancient Anxanum, the city of the Frentanese, has contained for over twelve centuries the first and greatest Eucharistic Miracle of the Catholic Church. This wondrous Event took place in the 8th century A.D. in the little Church of St. Legontian, as a divine response to a Basilian monk's doubt about Jesus' Real Presence in the Eucharist.
During Holy Mass, after the two-fold consecration, the host was changed into live Flesh and the wine was changed into live Blood, which coagulated into five globules, irregular and differing in shape and size.
The Host-Flesh, as can be very distinctly observed today, has the same dimensions as the large host used today in the Latin church; it is light brown and appears rose-colored when lighted from the back.
The Blood is coagulated and has an earthy color resembling the yellow of ochre.
Various ecclesiastical investigation ("Recognitions") were conducted since 1574.
In 1970-'71 and taken up again partly in 1981 there took place a scientific investigation by the most illustrious scientist Prof. Odoardo Linoli, eminent Professor in Anatomy and Pathological Histology and in Chemistry and Clinical Microscopy. He was assisted by Prof. Ruggero Bertelli of the University of Siena.
The analyses were conducted with absolute and unquestionable scientific precision and they were documented with a series of microscopic photographs.
These analyses sustained the following conclusions:
- The Flesh is real Flesh. The Blood is real Blood.
- The Flesh and the Blood belong to the human species.
- The Flesh consists of the muscular tissue of the heart.
- In the Flesh we see present in section: the myocardium, the endocardium, the vagus nerve and also the left ventricle of the heart for the large thickness of the myocardium.
- The Flesh is a "HEART" complete in its essential structure.
- The Flesh and the Blood have the same blood-type: AB (Blood-type identical to that which Prof. Baima Bollone uncovered in the Holy Shroud of Turin).
- In the Blood there were found proteins in the same normal proportions (percentage-wise) as are found in the sero-proteic make-up of the fresh normal blood.
- In the Blood there were also found these minerals: c
rides, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sodium and calcium.
- The preservation of the Flesh and of the Blood, which were left in their natural state for twelve centuries and exposed to the action of atmospheric and biological agents, remains an extraordinary phenomenon.
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Fig. 1 - Eosine x 200. Overall histological aspect of a Flesh sample with fibers collected in bundles with longitudinal orientation as it occurs in the outer surface layers of the heart. ![]()
Fig. 2 - Miracle Heart in Lanciano. Mallory x 250. An artery and, very close, a branch of the vagal nerve. ![]()
Fig. 3 - Miracle Heart in Lanciano. Mallory x 400. Evidence of the "Rough" aspect of the endocardium; the syncytoid structure of the myocardial tissue ![]()
Fig. 4 - Elution-absorption test x 80. Above: Hemagglutination test on blood sample in Lanciano: on the left, anti A serum used; on the right, anti-B serum. Below: hemoagglutination test on a Flesh sample in Lanciano: left, with anti-A serum, right,with anti-B serum. It appears thus that the Flesh and the Blood in Lanciano belong to AB blood group. ![]()
Fig. 5 - Electro-phoretic pattern of Blood proteins (Cromoscan photometer). The profile of serum fractions is normal and superimposable to that of a fresh serum sample.
In conclusion, it may be said that Science, when called upon to testify, has given a certain and thorough response as regards the authenticity of the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano.
Eucharistic Miracles
Documented Eucharistic Miracles that have been approved by the Catholic Church. Presents evidence attesting to their authenticity.www.therealpresence.org
This is the cup. The blood he shed for us..I have really been praying about the cup.
And Jesus says... it is his blood. Or it represents his blood in that cup.
The only Gospel connection I can make is the very cup Jesus asked his Father to remove from him 3 times.
If I look in the OT, this cup is filled with the wrath of God.
There was a bit of a discussion going on between James and John mother as to who would be seated at the Lord;s right and left hands.
Jesus says to her:
Mat 20:20
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
Mat 20:21
And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
Mat 20:22
But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
Mat 20:23
And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
This sounds a bit more ominous than simply drinking water from the well.
Jesus cried:
Luk 22:42
Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
He did this 3 times. And after the third time:
Luk 22:43
And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
Luk 22:44
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
I believe that it is this blood, this sweat that Jesus is referring to at supper.
The Apostles are going to have to die for him.
Peter knowing what is going to happen promises that he will die for him.
And Jesus says:
Mat 26:33
Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
Mat 26:34
Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Mat 26:35
Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
Jesus took Peter, James and John aside, and he said:
Mat 26:38
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Mat 26:39
And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Now I don't want to go too deep here, because sometimes I still need the training wheels.
So I will try to explain this how I am hearing it.
Jesus came to take the sin of the people (his people) upon himself. We say "sin" wrapped up nicely in a three letter word.
But in Ezekiel chapter 23... (23 is one of those numbers in the bible, like the 23rd Psalm)
Chapter 23 in Ezekiel lays out the sins of Jerusalem.
And you can see through the Gospels how Jesus is calling them out while he is walking among them.
It's longer than what I'm going to post. But the whole chapter is relevant to the very sin Jesus was going to take upon himself for the sake of his children...
Eze 23:28
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
Eze 23:29
And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Eze 23:30
I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
Eze 23:31
Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
Eze 23:32
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
Eze 23:33
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
All the sins that had been committed from the day they were taken from Egypt, until the day Jesus came, were put on him.
Isa 53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
I believe that it is this very cup of sorrow that was distributed among the disciples that night. The same night his body broke sweat in what appeared as great droplets of blood.
Luk 22:14
And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.
Luk 22:15
And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
Luk 22:16
For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Luk 22:17
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:
Luk 22:18
For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
Luk 22:19
And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Luk 22:20
Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
Luk 22:21
But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.
Luk 22:22
And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
The deeper you go, the more you hear...
The easier the balancing becomes, the less you need the training wheels.
But somethings take a lot of prayer.
continued:
I would say how does this help us understand John 6?The next concern I have is regarding "traditions"
And whose traditions, and what are those traditions?
Jesus chastised the Pharisees and Saducess for not keeping the commandments of God but rather the trditions of men.
So when I see Paul say they need to keep the traditions..
I have to question, who's what where and why?
Maybe we can bring this up in another thread, or carry on with it.
@Eternally Grateful I'll leave that for you to decide.
Hugs
Um, no we are discussing John 6. And all of it. Not 5 verses people want to focus on calling it the Eucharist.No, you don't. You could at least brows the link I posted. We are discussing the Eucharist, not your off topic flawed view of Tradition.
I agree that we bear our fair share of the sin in the world.And to think it is all because of me.. Makes me cry every time I think about it..
I then used an example to try to prove my pointA few of us have been discussing John 6 and the roman church with @Marymog and @Augustin56 in the thread if you think mary remained.....
In this thread, @Augustin56 said the following about the bible
@augustione said Jesus trained and formed men to spread His message. He didn't write a book to be self-interpreted to do so.
My reply to him was that God did not give us a letter that we could not read. In fact. John tells us that the words are written to us so we may not be deceived
Amen,I agree that we bear our fair share of the sin in the world.
But Jesus came to save Israel first. We have to keep that in mind.
They were supposed to lead us all to God, but they failed.
And all these sins happened because they led us all astray.
They followed after the gentiles and their gods, and their traditions.
I am not saying we are faultless and do not deserve our share of stripes.
We have within ourselves the knowledge of good and evil.
And we choose through the span of our own lifetimes to listen or not.
But the consequences of knowing what your purpose is and not doing it, is far worse than not knowing it and doing it.
And Israel has a greater share of the blame because they were given the oracles of God to pass down.
Now it falls on us as well the Gentiles, because we have been taught, we have been warned.
And if we stray there is noone left to blame but ourselves and the ones that are supposed to be leading us in the right direction.
It's not ALL because of you. We ALL share a part in the entire story of Life.
Hugs
Like I said earlier. It is amazing when the word of God comes togetherJhn 6:26
Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
Jhn 6:27
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
cross with this:
Amo 8:11
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
3 times:
Mat 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Mar 13:31
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Luk 21:33
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
The food that endureth unto everlasting life, are his words that shall not pass away.
Heaven and earth shall pass away....
2Pe 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Isa 29:6
Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
but my words shall not pass away:
Isa 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
There is no new without the old. Like a hand in glove.
Jhn 6:27
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
I thought we were talking about John 6. And trying our best t keep catholic and Protestant doctrines out of the discussion?Thank you for taking the time to view the full video presentation by Dr. Brant Pitre on "Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist". In this presentation, you will explore the Eucharist as the New Passover, the New Manna from Heaven, and the mysterious New 'Bread of the Presence.' If you are looking to deepen your faith in and understanding of the inexhaustible treasure that is the Eucharist, then this talk is for you. In this exciting talk, Dr. Pitre shines the light of the Old Testament and ancient Judaism on the words and deeds of Jesus to reveal the amazingly Jewish roots of the Eucharist. Using his in-depth knowledge of Jewish messianic expectations, Dr. Pitre shows how the hope for a New Exodus and the coming of the Messiah proves that Jesus really did intend to give us the Eucharist, and it is nothing less than the gift of Himself, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
I'm listeningThank you for taking the time to view the full video presentation by Dr. Brant Pitre on "Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist". In this presentation, you will explore the Eucharist as the New Passover, the New Manna from Heaven, and the mysterious New 'Bread of the Presence.' If you are looking to deepen your faith in and understanding of the inexhaustible treasure that is the Eucharist, then this talk is for you. In this exciting talk, Dr. Pitre shines the light of the Old Testament and ancient Judaism on the words and deeds of Jesus to reveal the amazingly Jewish roots of the Eucharist. Using his in-depth knowledge of Jewish messianic expectations, Dr. Pitre shows how the hope for a New Exodus and the coming of the Messiah proves that Jesus really did intend to give us the Eucharist, and it is nothing less than the gift of Himself, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.