“Explain why Jesus didn’t say “This IS a SYMBOL of My body?”
Why should he? He had said, “Take eat this is (estin) my body.”
“Why did He not run after the disbelieving followers and correct them? Stating “no you are wrong, don’t go away, I was speaking symbolically, I was using a metaphor.”
Again, why should he? He didn’t go after the wealthy man that was keeping all the commandments but just couldn’t part with his wealth. Jesus didn’t go back to the ungrateful men he had cured of blindness, did he?
IN EACH CASE THOSE WHO WENT NO FURTHER DISPLAYED THEIR UNWILLINGNESS TO GROW IN THE FAITH.
All displayed a degree of hard heartedness so unlike the Samaritan women or the disciples that stayed with Jesus.John 6:62
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You repeat Our Lord’s exact words and reject them with
a mocking comment.
The in-caps.
Wow! A mouthful, how telling. I have a feeling still, the
person who wrote the above will say “yes” at the Great Warning. Just as prophecy states, you can’t “grow”, mature in the faith without the Eucharist. You need the “grace” of the Real Presence.
On the rich young man, the disciples who walked away in John 6, the two can’t be compared. The young man understood but they didn’t. They are similar to the Protestants objecting here. Catholics tell you the Eucharist is supernatural, it isn’t cannibalism and it gets ignored. The “spirit and life” verse means just that, you have to think supernaturally. Accept that God can come to us in this manner.
John 6:61
Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it?
The comparison is the reaction of Jesus toward the above and the blind men not their reactions to his words. Why do I have to explain the obvious? “Mocking comment”??? Nonsense!
“They are similar to the Protestants objecting here. Catholics tell you the Eucharist is supernatural, it isn’t cannibalism and it gets ignored.”
As well it should be. I don't genuflect and kiss the ring of either here.