“After this many of His disciples drew back and no longer went about with him. John 6:66”
Matthew 4: 1Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
What is the Flesh of Christ, what is the blood of Christ...but that very word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Does not John declare that “in the beginning was the Word, and the word was God and the word was with God”? Does it not say (vs. 14) ...and the word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us?
We take wine and wafer as a remembrance of Christ as commanded... but does not the Bible say...the entrance of thy Words giveth light(Psalm 119:130). A “consecrated” host can molder and “consecrated” wine can evaporate. But the God in Flesh who died and rose again has given us spiritual bread and spiritual drink...which is the very spoken word of God which regenerates us day by day by means of the Spirit.
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So, you honestly think that all those disciples of Jesus Christ (who were obviously following Him because of His words), just up and left Him (John 6:66) when He told them they had to listen to His words?
And do you honestly think that when St. Paul said:
that he was saying that if you don't understand the "words" "bread" and "cup", you are taking them unworthily, and heap judgment down upon yourself?=============================================================
Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.
1 Corinthians 11:27-29=============================================================