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IOW, Satan says, here, let me interpret that for you. The simple plain truth of Scripture is too hard for you to understand. God didn’t mean what he said, He means what I say he means.
EXACTLY !! Like the when the Bible says the church is the pillar and bastion of the truth, Peter is the rock on which Christ will build the Church, and myriad other things. People would rather listen to Satan telling them the Scripture doesn't mean what it says to further their own personal version of the Scripture than to accept His Word, take up their cross, and follow Christ. The best example is really the Eucharist. Christ directly says to eat His Flesh, and drink His Blood, when challenged restates the same thing in a way even more offensive to the Jews who he was talking to, and when they leave, ask his Apostles if they're leaving, too.
Well, you'd think that if Christ said it and it was a simple sentence, at the very least even those who listen to Satan on a routine basis would accept it in order to not be so obvious about their not really believing in His Word. But no, such folks tell us that Christ couldn't possibly mean what he said, it's the same as when he said he was a door. LOL, that's rich, even funnier than saying Peter isn't the rock and even worse in it's effect. People are so blinded they believe one of the following:
a) Christ was too stupid to speak clearly,
b) You cannot trust what you read in the Bible to be accurate
c) Christ is incapable of putting a bit of His Flesh into bread or a bit of His Blood into wine
d) We can restate, reinterpret, or ignore, those portions of the Scripture that don't say what we want them to say
Whichever of those such folks pretends is correct doesn't matter, they're all functionally identical. When you say He means what He says, AMEN. He very clearly means that His Body and His Blood are in the Eucharist, that He would build His Church on Peter, and thank God, that the gates of Hell will not prevail against His Church.