So neither of you thinks Jesus ever spoke literally?
OF course He did...But He did come, speaking in parables...And He tells us why...
When John sees critters with tails of scorpions, that may be a metaphor...Or, it could be literal...We've never seen such so we don't know...
But when Jesus says you will never be hungry again after you eat me, of course it's a metaphor...
Sure, but nobody hops from literal to figurative on a sentence by sentence basis within one discourse.
Is this literal or figurative and how do you determine? John 6:35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
What about this passage?
John 6: 43-51
Do we take this one literally or not and why? 43"Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. 44"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
What about this one? Literal or not and why? 45It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.
This one? literal or not and why? 46No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
What about this one? Literal or not and why? 47I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.
What about this one? Literal or not and why? 48I am the bread of life.
What about this one? Literal or not and why? 49Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. 50But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die.
What about this one? Literal or not and why? 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."