[MHGinTN]

You so clever! But your cleverness will not and does not impress The Lord Christ. When GOD tells Israelites to not eat the blood and makes it a command through out ALL their generations, would that include the disciples attending the Last Passover Jesus commemorated? (I can almost hear the 'yes but' ratcheting around in the Catholic mind.)

[Mrs. Don-o]

We know that many of Jess' disciples turned away from Him and left Him,in John 6, when He said they must eat His flesh and drink His blood. "This is a hard saying, who can accept it?" Naurally -- with their natural-mindedness --- they would turn away. It is plainly unacceptable on natural terms. And more than, that, they were Jews and knew about blood being unkosher.

And what did Jesus do? He didn't run after them and shout, "Wait, stop! It's a metaphor, people! A met-a-phor!" No, he doubled down on the offensive theme, and He turned to His disciples and said, "Well? Do you want to go as well?"

But they stuck with him, though it seemed hard; and the early chekklesia continued: Paul tells the Corinthians this is the Flesh and Blood of Christ, repeating His words of consecration.

Everything written about the Eucharist by the early believers asserts that, as we know from Jesus' own words, we are dealing with the true Flesh and Blood of Christ; in fact, the whole and living Christ, just as He is at the right hand of the Father.

If you thouht we were eating bits of the dead slaughtered Christ, it would be just as awful as you think. BUt it's not. It not bit and pieces, it's the whole Christ. It's not a dead corpse, it's the Living One who will never die.

This is not the blood that renders one impure or defiled. It is exactly the opposite: the Blood that makes us clean. Jesus is not an unkosher slain animal. Jesus is God: Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, undivided, Living and True.

I hope, though unworthy,to model myself on the few who stayed, not the many who walked away.

[grey_whiskers]

You colossal doorknob.

The NEXT verse about not eating blood says, "the life is in the blood." (Leviticus 17:11 I think.)

What did Jesus say? John 6 :"Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them."

The life is in the blood. We drink the blood of Jesus, we have (His) life in us.

Duh.

Oh yeah. There's that little thing called the last supper.

Luke 22

18 For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” 19 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

Not Grape Juice, like some Protties insist.

You remain mistaken or misinformed.