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To: verga; Elsie; metmom

And then you list how flesh can sin, and how the flesh and the spirit war against one another, but by the spirit the flesh can be (eventually if not sooner it is hoped) subdued?

Yet the sense that the flesh "avails" nothing was in regards to how metmom was referencing John 6:63.

The flesh avails nothing...

The flesh itself (our own) gains no nutritional value from Eucharist other than what is the actual substance of the bread (and wine), therefore He was ruling out that he was speaking of His corporeal flesh (actual and "real" human flesh -- His own Divine sort) be what He was speaking towards when He talked about eating His flesh and drinking His blood.

His words were spirit. The flesh avails nothing.

So just what is it you were striving to say?

You sure picked one heck of a place to add;

Doctor doctor doctor, please. Stop digging.

Listen to you, you say, yet say nothing of much usefulness. One practically needs to engage mind-reading in order to square the circle for you, other than to be able to easily enough grasp all the included insult, whether openly stated or else implied. Usually it's a combo.

Mirror, mirror on the wall...

964 posted on 07/08/2015 7:05:26 AM PDT by BlueDragon (Yes, we're happy as fish and gorgeous as geese, and wonderfully clean in the morning)
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To: BlueDragon

Interesting opinion. I disagree with it but it is still interesting


966 posted on 07/08/2015 7:08:07 AM PDT by verga (I might as well be playng chess with pigeons.)
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