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I completely agree with you. Jesus is the reason that I became Catholic.

A number of the posters here say they take the Bible literally.

Really?

John 6:45-72
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
45It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to me.

46Not that any man hath seen the Father; but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father.

47Amen, amen I say unto you: He that believeth in me, hath everlasting life.

48I am the bread of life.

49Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead.

50This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat of it, he may not die.

51I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

52If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.

53The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

54Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.

55He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.

56For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.

57He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.

58As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.

59This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever.

60These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.

61Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it?

62But Jesus, knowing in himself, that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you?

63If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

64It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.

65But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that did not believe, and who he was, that would betray him.

66And he said: Therefore did I say to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father.

67After this many of his disciples went back; and walked no more with him.

68Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away?

69And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

70And we have believed and have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.

71Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve; and one of you is a devil?

72Now he meant Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon: for this same was about to betray him, whereas he was one of the twelve.

Do you believe that Christ told us the truth?