[GonzoII]

"The flesh profits nothing."

The flesh of Christ is of no profit??

Mt 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

2. Jesus did not say, “My flesh is of no avail.” He said, “The flesh is of no avail.” There is a big difference! He obviously would not have said my flesh avails nothing because he just spent a good portion of this same discourse telling us that his flesh would be “given for the life of the world” (John 6:51, cf. 50-58).

[Iscool]

2. Jesus did not say, “My flesh is of no avail.” He said, “The flesh is of no avail.” There is a big difference! He obviously would not have said my flesh avails nothing because he just spent a good portion of this same discourse telling us that his flesh would be “given for the life of the world” (John 6:51, cf. 50-58).

Obviously not the 'fleshy' life...Jesus' flesh didn't profit when they beat it up and killed it...Our fleshy life did not profit when Jesus was Crucified...It is all 100% spiritual life, not fleshy life...

[metmom]

I didn’t say that Jesus said *MY* flesh is of no avail. I said that He said THE flesh is of no avail.

His BLOOD was shed for the remission of our sins, not His flesh. Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin.

Eating blood is strictly forbidden by the Law. The blood was NEVER for consumption, it was for atonement. Jesus could not break the Law and still be the perfect, sinless sacrifice for our sins.

One of the only commands reiterated in the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15 was the prohibition against eating blood.

Salvation is by faith. Not by eating Jesus.