[imardmd1]

Now you're trying to tell me what I think,. That's not alloed here, and I won't put up with it. What I suspected is that you would be responding as you have, with a personal attack rather than a legitimate defense against a legitimate position. Your thesis is not defensible, so on this note, my argument rests.

[Arthur McGowan]

I didn’t tell you what you think. I told you what you said.

Launching a personal attack on me doesn’t change what you asserted, which is that Jesus used a metaphor that misled the vast majority of his audience, causing them to abandon him—and presumably their hope of salvation.

Your theory makes Jesus not merely incompetent as a preacher, a poor communicator, but a liar, since, by using a “metaphor,” he ACTIVELY DECEIVED his audience about what he was “trying” to say, driving them away.

Jesus’ actions in John 6—letting his followers abandon him precisely because they took his words literally—demonstrate that Jesus’ words in John 6 were and are intended to be taken literally: He promises to give his flesh as food to be eaten and his blood as drink to be drunk.