Of course it's real food...It's real Spiritual food...You guys are proof of this...
You may eat the bread and drink the wine every day but you still eat supper when you get home...
Even tho the Apostles ate the bread and drank the wine at the last supper, I'll guarantee with confidence that the Apostles ate again the next day...
Joh 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
So now what??? You guys drink the water but you still drink every day...
You might want to notice that Jesus did not mention to the Samaritan woman that He really was not a literal glass of water that she could drink and quench her thirst forever if she would just take a sip...It's all Spiritual...
Joh 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
Joh 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Of course that is not literal either...I have life in me, and so does everyone else who ever lived that did not partake in the 'eucharist'...
Joh 6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
Only in your stomach and then out thru the draught...Of course this is not literal...
Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Joh 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
So the Apostles never died...Your last pope never died...
Well their flesh died...It was their spirit that doesn't die...It's Spiritual...Not literal...Not physical...
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned |
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we areyet he did not sin. |
4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. |
3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. |
6 God will repay each person according to what they have done.[a] 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. |
6 Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor. 7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers |
"Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." |