.
Regardless of how Christ's teachings are interpreted-- ritually, literally, or
metaphorically --unless people somehow eat his flesh and drink his blood,
they have no life in them; viz: they are quite dead on the hoof regardless of
their health, age, race, religion, and/or gender.
● John 6:53 . . Amen, Amen, I say to you: unless you eat the flesh of the
Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
The kind of life about which the Lord spoke is very unusual to say the least
because it's supernatural.
● John 6:54 . . .Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,
Eternal life always was, it always is, and it always will be because eternal life
is divine. (John 1:1-4 and 1John 1:1-2)
When the Word came to be in human form (John 1:1-14), he came with not
only human life, but also eternal life.
● John 5:26 . . For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He gave to
His son the possession of life in himself.
When Jesus spoke of eternal life, he wasn't talking about immortality
because in spite of the Lord's possession of his Father's life, Jesus didn't
survive crucifixion.
So then, the power of life obtained by eating Jesus' flesh and imbibing his
blood isn't meant to keep people's bodies alive forever, sort of like the tree
of life in the garden of Eden, because if Jesus' body was vulnerable to death
in spite of his possession of eternal life, then the bodies of the consumers of
his flesh and blood remain vulnerable to death too in spite of their
possession of eternal life.
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Regardless of how Christ's teachings are interpreted-- ritually, literally, or
metaphorically --unless people somehow eat his flesh and drink his blood,
they have no life in them; viz: they are quite dead on the hoof regardless of
their health, age, race, religion, and/or gender.
● John 6:53 . . Amen, Amen, I say to you: unless you eat the flesh of the
Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
The kind of life about which the Lord spoke is very unusual to say the least
because it's supernatural.
● John 6:54 . . .Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,
Eternal life always was, it always is, and it always will be because eternal life
is divine. (John 1:1-4 and 1John 1:1-2)
When the Word came to be in human form (John 1:1-14), he came with not
only human life, but also eternal life.
● John 5:26 . . For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He gave to
His son the possession of life in himself.
When Jesus spoke of eternal life, he wasn't talking about immortality
because in spite of the Lord's possession of his Father's life, Jesus didn't
survive crucifixion.
So then, the power of life obtained by eating Jesus' flesh and imbibing his
blood isn't meant to keep people's bodies alive forever, sort of like the tree
of life in the garden of Eden, because if Jesus' body was vulnerable to death
in spite of his possession of eternal life, then the bodies of the consumers of
his flesh and blood remain vulnerable to death too in spite of their
possession of eternal life.
_