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To: ADSUM; Mom MD
Jesus told us that if you don’t eat His Body and Blood, then there is no life in you. John 6:53

John 6:63 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.

And here Jesus told His disciples that He was speaking metaphorically.

Catholicism claims on one hand that you have to literally eat Jesus and drink His blood to be saved. Jesus says the flesh is no help at all because it's the Spirit who gives life.

Taken literally as Catholicism demands, those two comments are contradictory. How do you explain that? Which one is true then?

297 posted on 07/27/2020 6:12:19 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

I realize that you reject the Catholic faith and try very hard to show contradictory statements.

In John 6:63, Jesus was not talking about His flesh.

Jesus did not say, “My flesh is of no avail.” He said, “The flesh is of no avail.” There is a rather large difference between the two. No one, it is safe to say, would have believed he meant my flesh avails nothing because he just spent a good portion of this same discourse telling us that his flesh would be “given for the life of the world” (Jn 6:51, cf. 50-58). So to what was he referring? The flesh is a New Testament term often used to describe human nature apart from God’s grace.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/what-catholics-believe-about-john-6

So are you saying that the flesh of Jesus is of no avail?

I think that you are confused.

I do hope that you challenge yourself to objectively understand the words of Jesus and then begin to believe in what he taught.


298 posted on 07/27/2020 6:33:12 AM PDT by ADSUM
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To: metmom

Ad sum cannot allow his/her mind to see that Jesus was referring to the amen amen statement regarding His flesh as profiting nothing if actually eaten. We know that He was referencing that seeming conflicting assertion because of the immediate contrast He gave to the words He had spoken as spirit and life. But to maintain the blasphemy of the magic pedophile priesthood of homosexuals supported by the Roman religion, the adherents are taught to not see the clear meaning of what Jesus said to those who remained with Him.


311 posted on 07/27/2020 10:58:10 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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