[daniel1212]

Jesus now doubles-down and does not try to correct his literal meaning. 6:53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you;

Again, while it can easily be shown that obtaining spiritual life is by believing the gospel message, (Acts 10;43-47p; 15;7-11) you must be consistent and admit that there is no salvation for all who do not believe in and receive the Cath Eucharist, as this is essential to even obtain spiritual life.

Failing that, you must show why this statement is not an unequivocal imperative as much as other "verily, verily" statements in John are.

Failing that, you had best leave the thread. Rather than showing this from Scripture, appealing to uninspired writings of post apostolic men is an admission that this is the source of your belief.

[MHGinTN]

It zooms right past the catholic mind that Jesus had to be speaking of the spiritual feasting because if He had been speaking literally He would be contradicting the LAWS HE GAVE to the Hebrews for all their generations, one of which was standing before Him seeking signs. Therefore, the god and jesus of catholiciism is duplicitous. BUT Thanks be to God, the Bible supports the symbolic, the spiritual TRUTH in Jesus’s statement to these literalists who could not see the spiritual TRUTH. Likewise the catholic religion sees only a literal meaning which reveals the god of their religion is duplicitous in light of the rest of The Bible..

[Elsie]

Failing that, you must show why this statement is not an unequivocal imperative as much as other "verily, verily" statements in John are.

Bah!

We don't need no steenkin' show NUTTIN!!!

We are CATHOLICs; Baby!!