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
Then by your reasoning, Jesus was a liar.
Matthew 5:17-20 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Your comment, more than ever, shows that the Jesus of Catholicism is NOT the Jesus of Scripture, who fulfilled the Mosaic Law perfectly.
He HAD to have. He could not have broken the Law and remained sinless.
He was ACCUSED of Law breaking, but that was because the pharisees added their own nonsense to it and He violated THAT. But violating man made commands is no big deal. It's not sin.
Nor did He *blaspheme*. He spoke the truth and the truth is no blasphemy.
Jesus was instituting the New Covenant.