So, no will for you, eh?
You plan on living forever?
What’s with all the Catholic funerals then?
Please read above about the prohibition against eating blood and the link to metaphors.
Jesus COULD NOT have changed the Law. He stated Himself that He came not to change it but to fulfill it. If He had eaten the blood or commanded others to break the Law, He would have sinned.
Catholicism essentially tells us that Jesus did that then.
I have no idea what your point is, you asked me to provide passages, so I did.
A person can speak literally and figuratively at different times, even in the same conversation, if that’s what you are getting at.
But this:
“Jesus COULD NOT have”
is bothersome.
Jesus broke Mosaic law several times, never did He sin. He ate with sinners, He consorted with taxpayers, He worked on the sabbath, He discounted dietary restrictions, He ‘blasphemed’.
He made it clear in the discourse on divorce and marriage, that Mosaic laws were made for the weakness of men, not necessarily because God wanted those behaviors. Therefore, breaking Mosaic law is not necessarily a sin. It is never a sin if God tells you to do it.
The point of the ‘eat no blood’ prohibition is that people would claim to eat the flesh and blood of animals or their false gods in order to gain their power and become joined to that god or animal. It was part of “Have no false gods before Me”.
God commands us to eat His flesh and blood for exactly that reason. He is not a false god. He wants us to be joined to Him in a profound way. He made Himself flesh and lived and died on earth to give us that way.
The prohibition in Mosaic law was precisely to prohibit perversion of the unique bond that He was to eventually provide for us to Him.
God planned ahead that way sometimes.
Also, ANYTHING that Jesus led anyone to do could not POSSIBLY be a sin.
Love,
O2