That's a pretty good Alex, darn good.
“That’s a pretty good Alex, darn good.”
No, it is silly. It is taking literally something that obviously is not literal.
About John the Baptist, Jesus said, “He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.”
So John the Baptist was a torch?
John 4: “Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
I live in a desert...so water that means I’ll never be thirsty again, and will also, as a bonus, give me eternal life? Sounds great - I’ll take a 12 pack. But that wasn’t what Jesus meant, was it?
“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.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”
And you want me to believe he was saying, “This bread I hold in my hand is actually my flesh, that only looks and tastes like bread, but is really and truly my flesh, just as much as is the hand that holds it”?
Sorry, kosta50 & annalex. Believe as you wish, but that argument seems silly to me.
“And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, andbrought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. And he (David) said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. . . “ (2 Samuel 23:16, 17)
Obviously either David or God turned the water from the well of Bethlehem into blood, and so David would not drink it.