[CA Conservative]

Go back and reread the book of John from the Catholic chapter sixteen and tell which proverbs you think He was referring to in the text you quoted.

Jesus spoke in proverbs and analogies very often, which He clearly stated. So to argue that He COULDN'T have been speaking of the blood and body in a metaphorical usage is clearly wrong. And since a literal interpretation of that command would have resulted in a violation God's Law against consuming blood, the symbolic or metaphorical usage is the one that is in harmony with the rest of the Scripture.

[Elsie]

Jesus spoke in proverbs and analogies very often...

Are you still so dull?

Proverb?
Analogy??
Plain fact???

[af_vet_1981]

Jesus spoke in proverbs and analogies very often, which He clearly stated. So to argue that He COULDN'T have been speaking of the blood and body in a metaphorical usage is clearly wrong. And since a literal interpretation of that command would have resulted in a violation God's Law against consuming blood, the symbolic or metaphorical usage is the one that is in harmony with the rest of the Scripture.

The text in John shows which proverbs John was referencing, so all I have to do is show that. If your faith group has a tradition that the quoted text you referenced referred to what you just taught, please list the historical group and tradition. Perhaps some of the founding fathers of the reformation taught that. To argue He could have referred to something else other than the plain text does damage to the hermeneutic, so to speak. Take the text as it is.

[metmom]

And since a literal interpretation of that command would have resulted in a violation God's Law against consuming blood, the symbolic or metaphorical usage is the one that is in harmony with the rest of the Scripture.

There you go. Making sense again.