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To: Theo
"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. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

Christ did not misspeak: nor was He imprecise.

Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, “This is a hard saying; who can hear it?”

Some of the disciples demurred at Christs words. Some of them left. But Christ did not 'walk back' His words. He meant what He said, and went on to reinforce what He said:

“Does this cause you to stumble? What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before? It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Paul does not dispute this, of course. From Corinthians:

The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ ? And the bread, which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord?

Doubt no longer, but believe.

79 posted on 08/02/2011 4:44:16 PM PDT by agere_contra ("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
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To: agere_contra

Sheesh. You conveniently didn’t quote 1 Corinthians in context. Consider the very next verse:

“For we, being many, are one bread, one body, all that partake of one bread.”

BREAD, man. Bread. These are the words of Scripture. They make it clear that the food does’t literally turn into corpuscles and meat.

I do believe. In Jesus. Not in food, as some do.

I marvel in Jesus’ sacrifice, during which He said, “It is finished.” By presuming to break His body again and again, you deny the efficacy of that one, final atoning sacrifice.


85 posted on 08/02/2011 5:14:12 PM PDT by Theo (May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
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