Why?
You know guys, while I was away from FR I spent a lot of time listening to and contemplating what was said on Catholic Answers Live (6pm EDT streaming on EWTN radio). It seems to me that 90%, at least, of what is said in these threads is addressed on that show. I know there are some here who dislike the apologists there (Jimmy Aikin, Tim Staples) but they aren’t the only ones, for one, and secondly I think some around here just blithely dismiss them for a few reasons not applicable to most apologetics.
Granted I’ve been away for a while but I’ve never read anyone comment on claims like (for the subject of this thread) the word for “eat” in John 6 has a very literal meaning in the Greek (”trogo”) and or that the expression “eat my body” had, at the time (1st century Palestine) very negative connotations for Jews, so when Jesus said this about himself this is why they “strove amongst themselves”, because they couldn’t understand why he would say this about himself. Either he was denigrating himself, or saying what he said literally. Either of which they couldn’t understand (to take him literaly or take him to mean he was denigrating himself) so this is why they strove amongst each other.
These are just two points raised on that show of this topic and even more on this and others. It seems to me this is a lot of wasted time to argue these same points. Seems listening to the show and considering some of those newer points would be worthwhile.
I’ve also been reading Staples’ “Behold Your Mother”. It seems to blow all of these arguments out of the water (regarding Mary). But that’s another thread I guess.
Just sharing some thoughts from when I’ve been gone. Carry on.
Why?
Wondering what you meant by OMG....the street use or something else?
But, as I've come to expect from you a lot of talk but no answers to simple questions.
Have a good evening.