What??? Tons of people left him over the parables...That's why he used the parables, to weed out the unbelievers, Just as he did in John...
You can't just make stuff up to justify your religion...
First of all, I don’t know where we read of so many leaving Jesus because of any one thing he said, parable or not. We’re talking about thousands of people in this instance.
Secondly, my point is not that people may or may not have left Him because of what was taught in a parable, but that a parable was used in the first place, and no one left Him because He used parables. They left (or rejected) Him because of what he taught IN the parables.
My point is that even at that time, people had an understanding of what parables are or even, what should and should not be taken literally, and when.
The point remains that you can’t escape from: if you believe the Jews in John 6 left Jesus because they were wrongly taking Him literally, then John 6:63 can’t mean what you say it means. It can’t mean “Don’t worry guys, I’m not REALLY saying you have to eat my flesh and drink my blood. I only mean that metaphorically”.
That can’t mean what John 6:63 means or else the Jews that were clamoring earlier wouldn’t have left Him. Or perhaps you could explain to me why a group of people would reject a guy only a few minutes before they wanted to make king? Why would they do that, if He even “explained” in John 6:63 that He was speaking metaphorically?
****Tons of people left him over the parables.*****
Scripture to support this assertion, please.