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.
John 3:14-18 14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 5:24 24Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 6:28-29 28Then they said to him, "What must we do, to be doing the works of God?" 29Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
John 6:38-40 38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. 40For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."
That comes from an intellectual reading and understanding of the scriptures...It it completely devoid of any spiritual understanding which is given to those who become the 'sheep'...
Right in the same context is:
Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
This verse in the context of Jesus telling us to eat his flesh is completely lost on you guys...You can't even comment on it...