“Unless you eat my Body and drink my Blood, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
“Unless you eat my Body and drink my Blood, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Shortly after the Lord’s supper, but before he was arrested, Jesus said:
25 “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.
John 16:25
Jesus had been speaking figuratively.