take this all of you and eat it...'THIS IS MY BODY"....Take and drink of this, "THIS IS MU BLOOD"...doesn't sound figurative to me.
unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink of His blood, you shall not have life within you.......Figurative????? I don't think so, but good luck with your theory.
Let’s see. Take the catholic version of these verses or not? The same catholics who say you can’t get to Christ unless we go through Mary in contradiction of the Word. The same catholics who deny Jesus had brothers and sisters in contradiction of the Word? The same catholics who believe you can lose your salvation in contradiction do the Word? I could go on. I think I’ll stay with the biblical meaning of the text.
take this all of you and eat it...’THIS IS MY BODY”....Take and drink of this, “THIS IS MU BLOOD”...doesn’t sound figurative to me.
Would you claim Jesus has eyes of flame and a sword for a tongue?
Rev 19
And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and wages war. His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name written on Him which no one knows except Himself. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses. From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will [d]rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the [e]wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty. And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Not so. For one thing, where would this flesh and blood come from? A chicken? A turkey? But then they wouldn't be the flesh and blood of Jesus!
Jesus gave us the answer: He took bread and wine and said THIS is my body, THIS is my blood.
When St. Paul writes about unworthy reception of the Eucharist, he doesn't say that it makes a person guilty of hypocrisy or dishonesty--which is all it would be if the Eucharist were only a symbol.
Paul says an unworthy reception of the Eucharist makes a person "guilty of the body and blood of the Lord." That's a weirdly concrete way of describing an act that is only hypocritical or dishonest.
unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink of His blood, you shall not have life within you.......Figurative????? I don't think so, but good luck with your theory.
When Jesus said, *I am the door* and *I am the true vine*, it doesn't sound very figurative to me.
Indeed, Jesus DOES say that it's figurative because in John 6:63. He TELLS us it's figurative when He says, It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.