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To: ADSUM
>>You keep calling Jesus a sinner and a liar.<<

No, I don't. It's Catholics who claim He was eating blood and getting the apostles to do the same.

>>You call yourself a follower of Jesus, but your firmly reject His words and advice for your salvation.<<

Once again you made a false claim. I take Jesus words as He meant them and explained them.

John 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.

Still Catholics reject those words and insist that it is the flesh. Jesus wasn't talking about eating the physical flesh and blood any more the Jeremiah was eating the physical scroll. Neither does a literal river of water flow from the belly of believers.

>>In the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John, Jesus promised to give us His flesh to eat and His blood to drink.<<

As I just showed He also explained that His words were spirit and that He was not talking about the literal physical flesh and blood.

>>Upon Jesus’ extraordinary revelation contained in this section of the gospel, there occurs a mass exodus of followers from His camp<<

Yes, they also took Jesus to mean literal flesh and blood and as that was specifically forbidden by God and they followed that prohibition they knew it couldn't be from God. Catholics just don't care about that prohibition. The apostles had faith enough in Jesus to stay for His explanation and then understood that He wasn't talking about the literal physical flesh and blood.

It's interesting that Catholics don't catch that the apostles later, after Jesus had ascended into heaven, reiterated the prohibition against eating blood for the New Testament believers. Catholics must believe they were double minded apostles or something. Prohibiting the eating of blood while at the same time encouraging it? Preposterous.

711 posted on 01/26/2015 11:25:39 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear

As I stated before you are entitled to you personal opinion, and you will find out later if Jesus agrees with that opinion.

I completely disagree with your analysis and I believe Jesus has told us very clearly (literally) and has given us His Body and Blood in the Eucharist for our Salvation.

I do hope that you understand the Truth.


759 posted on 01/26/2015 2:12:32 PM PST by ADSUM
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