“Thank you for not reading my post and my link (i wrote it), and interacting with it, but simply restating your belief, which is too typical of many ,..”
I scanned it. I’ve read others positing something similar although you have a lot of work tied into your distinctly anti-Catholic beliefs. There is no agreement with your belief. We believe Christ meant what he said. What you are trying to prove flies in the face of 1600 years of Eucharistic belief and His own command.
In some of your exegesis, you are taking typology and extending it to Christ’s plain statements and contending that he is just creating another typology.
Everything in the Old Testament foreshadows this moment.
He is the fulfillment and culmination of it all.
We disagree on this and probably always will.
Have a blessed day.
Thank you for your reply. But there is near universal agreement in the symbolic position among evangelicals, who hold to the supremacy of Scripture and preach the gospel of grace thru faith, versus works-merit, while a minority of Catholics have affirmed the official Rome position. (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_17_128/ai_79305248)
As for typology and extending it to Christ’s plain statements, “ see post 207. John makes abundant use of allegory, and is also distinguished “in his use of of particles, pronouns, prepositions, verbs, etc.” as well as analogy, etc., all of which can make interpretation more than a simplistic matter.