Let's look at each verse here. Is it literal or figurative?
35 Jesus said to them,
“I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
OK, Literally, that means anyone who partakes of the eucharist will never become hungry or thirsty again.
Is that true for Catholics. Can they cease eating and drinking for the rest of their lives? Jesus said it. Literal or figurative?
36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Is our salvation secure? Literal or figurative?
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
Is our salvation secure? Literal or figurative?
40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Here Jesus says that it's God's will that anyone who LOOKS at Jesus should have eternal life. Nothing about eating. So is it eating or looking that gives life? Which one?
John 6:47-58
47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
Here Jesus says that it's by believing that we have eternal life. Is that literal or figurative?
Now there's three choices- looking, believing, eating. Which one gives life?
48 I am the bread of life.
He said he was bread. Literal interpretation means His body is made of wheat, bread dough. He's a man shaped loaf of bread walking around. Is that verse literal or figurative?
49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
50 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
Jesus said that if people ate, they would not die. Literal or figurative? Do Catholics die? Jesus said they wouldn't.
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
again Jesus reiterated that He is bread. if he is bread, he is made out of wheat flour. And He says that by eating this man shaped loaf of bread, that people would never die. Do Catholic die? Show me Catholics who live forever. If it's literal, physical eating and literal, physical flesh, then it's literal, physical living forever here in this body on earth, the one that does the literal, physical eating.
52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 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.
Third choice. First was looking, second was believing. Now He's saying eating. Literal or figurative?
54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Previously Jesus said if you believed He would raise him up on the last day. Which one is it? Eating or believing? Living here on earth forever stuck in a sinful body or not?
55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
Literal or figurative? How long does one abide in Him? Is it a one time eating? Why or why not? Does Jesus literally live in us from merely being consumed into the body?
57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
Did Jesus eat God? Did God eat Jesus?
58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”
Jesus again saying His body is bread. That means His body is made out of wheat. Literal or figurative?
If He promised that literal physical eating results in living forever, then why do Catholics die?
And why do Catholics think and teach that they are going to hell?
In particular, I'm interested in answers to the questions for verses 35,37,39,40,47,50,51,53,56,57,58.
Also, could you explain why Jesus would teach that one must violate the Law by consuming blood to be saved?
OK, Literally, that means anyone who partakes of the eucharist will never become hungry or thirsty again.
Is that true for Catholics. Can they cease eating and drinking for the rest of their lives? Jesus said it. Literal or figurative?
Whatcha tryin' to do here; blow up EVERY Catholics head?
How can THEY say one thing is LITERAL and the other is NOT??
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