Why do you see disagreement with Roman Catholicism as "anger"? I didn't leave the Christian faith, I didn't forsake Jesus Christ when I left Catholicism. Instead, when at 16 years old a kind Sunday School teacher from my grandparent's Baptist church showed me John 10:27-30 and I understood for the first time that salvation is the gift of God, that Jesus has given us eternal life and we shall never perish or be plucked from His hands, I knew I had not been told the truth before as a cradle Catholic. I reject the revisionist history of Christianity that Roman Catholicism has generated. Many of those points you are espousing right here:
Again, I am not angry nor do I thirst for the Bread of Life because I still have it. I didn't leave the Christian faith but became a real one and much stronger one. My faith and love for God has grown for over fifty years now and I yearn for the day I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever.
Hope that answers your questions. God bless you.
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Nice to see you’re still a dolt in spite of hobnobbing with the Yachting set.
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Thanks for your kind wordy reply. See, all you have are words. I get to receive the Living Christ in the Eucharist.
That is a HUGE difference. Ask your soul, I mean really ask it what it needs. If you are honest, it should yearn for the Bread of Life, not just words.
Joining you in agreement! Jesus Christ died for my salvation and I thank Him every minute of every day for it!
in Matthew 16 we read
Peter Declares That Jesus Is the MessiahThis is very clearly a dialogue between Jesus and Simon Rock. It is NOT "with every Apostle", leave alone "with every believer" --> that is seen in the difference between verses 19 and 20 "then he ordered his disciples not to..."13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter,[b] and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades[c] will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be[d] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[e] loosed in heaven.” 20 Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
It is also clearly in the text that the "keys" are not "the Gospel" - the Gospel is the message that the Kingdom of God HAS COME --> reference Acts 1:3 HE spoke about the Kingdom of God" - and Acts 28:21 He proclaimed the Kingdom of God
Look at the way Matthew 16:15-19 is structured. After Peter gives a confession about the identity of Jesus, the Lord does the same in return for Peter. Jesus does not say, ‘Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are an insignificant pebble and on this rock I will build my Church. . . . I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.’ Jesus is giving Peter a threefold blessing, including the gift of the keys to the kingdom, not undermining his authority.
Jesus is installing Peter as a form of chief steward or prime minister under the King of Kings by giving him the keys to the kingdom. As can be seen in Isaiah 22:22, kings in the Old Testament appointed a chief steward to serve under them in a position of great authority to rule over the inhabitants of the kingdom. Jesus quotes almost verbatim from this passage in Isaiah, and so it is clear what he has in mind. He is raising Peter up as a father figure to the household of faith (Isa. 22:21), to lead them and guide the flock (John 21:15-17).
. This authority of the prime minister under the king was passed on from one man to another down through the ages by the giving of the keys, which were worn on the shoulder as a sign of authority. Likewise, the authority of Peter has been passed down for 2000 years by means of the papacy.
etc. - Jesus was already preaching the Gospel, had told His disciples to spread it
Matthew 10:14 "And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words,"
So your personal definition, boatbums, does not hold in the context nor in the language itself
the “eating” and “drinking” that Jesus refers to in verse 35 is not meant to be taken literally. The reason is that Jesus explicitly tells us what the eating and drinking refer to: “He who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.”
When Jesus starts talking in verse 51 about eating his flesh (“I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh”) and following, he never backtracks to these ideas of coming to him and believing in him.
Instead, Jesus sticks with the “flesh and blood” language. He’s not using the eating and drinking language as he did in verse 35. Something new has been introduced into the conversation, and it’s the act of eating his flesh and blood.
Let’s read John 6 - just the words of Jesus recorded
he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?”
Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages[e] worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little [bit].”
Jesus said, “Have the people recline.”
He gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted.
they saw Jesus walking on the sea[k] and coming near the boat, and they began to be afraid. 20 But he said to them, “It is I.[l] Do not be afraid.”
“Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life,[o] which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.”
“This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”
, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
“I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. 36 But I told you that although you have seen [me], you do not believe. 37 Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me, 38 because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. 39 And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it [on] the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him [on] the last day.”
“Stop murmuring[r] among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets:
‘They shall all be taught by God.’
Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; 50 this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 54 Whoever eats[s] my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
“Does this shock you? 62 What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?[u] 63 It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh[v] is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.”
“For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.”
“Did I not choose you twelve? Yet is not one of you a devil?” 71 He was referring to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot; it was he who would betray him, one of the Twelve.
Jesus’ deeds and words are clear
1. God will feed the multitudes
2. I am God - I can walk on water
3. Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life,[o] which the Son of Man will give you
4. This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent
5. my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
6. I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger,
7. I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
8. unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 54 Whoever eats[s] my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
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He is crystal clear - and He emphasizes that this is not an allegory, but repeats thrice that this is what you are to do - eat of His Body and drink of His blood Concerning this, Jesus is not speaking about His Flesh (“My Flesh”), in verse 63 but “*the* flesh” which is very different. What Jesus means by “”the flesh profits nothing” is very simple because he uses the phrase again in John 8:15 (https://biblia.com/bible/esv/John%208.15) (we must let the Bible interpret the Bible 🙂 where he says: *“You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.”* (John 8:15, NKJV (https://biblia.com/bible/nkjv/John%208.15)) When Jesus uses the phrase “the flesh” he is referring to human understanding apart from divine revelation. This statement of Jesus affirms what he has said about eating his Flesh and drinking his Blood and tells us it is a great mystery — spirit and life. With these words Jesus castigates **you*, for judging spiritual things with earthly minds — by the flesh — and failing to understand the deep mysteries of God in the Eucharist. And by the way, this “symbol only“ mentality about Scripture and this passage in particular is only 500 years old - so a modernist understanding . From the beginning of the Church Christians have understood that Jesus was speaking of his Flesh and Blood in the Eucharist — after all Jesus did not say, “This represents my body.“ he said “This is My Body!“
Christians in the first centuries also believed that it was the True body and blood of Christ - to which the pagan Roman authorities accused them of cannibalism and to which it was a sign of whether one was Christian or not
Who were the people in the early centuries BEFORE constatine who denied the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist? Only the Gnostics -- so boatbums, the Gnostics are your spiritual forefathers, that should put pause to your thoughts, correct?
AMEN! Thank you for this post! Your words reflect my thinking too. I’m much closer to Jesus now, as a true Christian, than I’ve ever was as a Roman Catholic.