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To: CynicalBear

Sorry to disappoint your thinking, but what could be more spiritual than the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist?

Sorry you don’t understand that.


64 posted on 05/05/2013 5:22:48 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
Still stuck on the physical ey?

Those who call themselves Catholic who belong to the Roman Catholic Church would have us believe that Jesus was talking about his physical flesh. This is in direct contradiction to Jesus own teaching.>p> Now let’s go to the next verse where Jesus begins to explain.

Let’s put the verse back into context and deal with what Jesus really told His apostles and us.

John 6:54 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. 56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.

Notice where He said “this is the breadwhich came down out of heaven? Jesus was not talking about His physical flesh. Jesus said His words are spirit, not flesh.

John 6:63 The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life,

It’s the spirit that giveth life, not the flesh.

2 Cor. 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Now let Jesus Himself tell us what that “bread” is.

Jesus puts the analogy into perspective by pointing to the metaphor of the manna from heaven which was a symbol of Jesus coming from heaven.

John 6:32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

Jesus Himself tells us that He is that bread which came down from heaven.

33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Do a study on the symbolism of bread, including unleavened bread, throughout the bible starting with the manna in the desert and you will understand that the focus on Jesus physical flesh is nothing more then a pagan practice.

66 posted on 05/05/2013 5:30:03 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: Salvation
but what could be more spiritual than the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist?

That's man made teaching and it's worldly - and not Biblical. Jesus doesn't have any blood in His Spiritual Body now - so what you are drinking isn't His blood.

Sorry you don’t understand that.

Understand this... "'You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.'" Matthew 15:7-9

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. Matt 23:13

84 posted on 05/05/2013 7:18:04 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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