[dollars_for_dogma]

"....the idea that Jesus is instituting cannibalism. That would violate these scriptures....

"But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." Genesis 9:4

"... No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood." Leviticus 17:12

Any divine command that comes later modifies a divine command from an earlier time. Jesus declared all foods clean here: Mark 7:19. And his command superseded the earlier command that certain foods be regarded as unclean Leviticus 11:1-8.

When Jesus commands us to drink his blood in John 6:53-57, this command then supersedes any prior command concerning drinking blood. The command against drinking blood, like all of the Old Testament dietary regulations, has passed away.

Colossians 2:17 states: "These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink."

[ScubieNuc]

"When Jesus commands us to drink his blood in John 6:53-57, this command then supersedes any prior command concerning drinking blood. The command against drinking blood, like all of the Old Testament dietary regulations, has passed away.

Colossians 2:17 states: "These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink."

Your responses would be amazing if I hadn't seen it before. Your desire to cut and paste without regard to the whole of the chapter or book or other books, is consistant with placing Catholic dogma as primary, but ignores the whole of Scripture.

You choose to ignore all of the references to salvation through belief, even in the same chapter (John 6:47), and cling to a salvation through cannabalism. This is even when the number of references to former greatly outnumber the latter.

Your reference to Colossians chapter 2 is interesting on a couple of levels. One, the verse you quote does relate to OT dietary laws, but says nothing about eating other humans or God or directly talk about communion. Two, it has other verses you seem to ignore....

Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Your belief of salvation through cannibalism of a real actual Christ over, and over, and over, again, is a tradition of man, and contrary to Scripture.

Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

Rom 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

Sincerely