I agree that Jesus used parables and symbols to teach man.
Does your opinion include that he performed miracles to teach man God’s Truth?
Do you believe that what Jesus said was the Truth? (John 1)
Do you believe in the Trinity? That God created Heaven and Earth? Jesus has both human and divine natures in one person? Jesus ascended into Heaven? Forgiveness of sins? Life everlasting? Or are they merely symbols?
How does one eat and drink a symbol? How does a symbol give everlasting life or not eating a symbol one has no life? (John 6:53)
Do you believe that Jesus as God can change bread and wine into his living Body and Blood? How is it a misunderstanding and causing confusion?
I am trying to understand your opinion and not argue with you.
—-> How does one eat and drink a symbol?
That is both a logical category mistake and a figure of speech misunderstanding.
Wrapped up in a creative way!
Have you reviewed metaphors yet Adsum?
“I agree that Jesus used parables and symbols to teach man.”
- Yes, that is a fact.
“Does your opinion include that he performed miracles to teach man God’s Truth?”
- Absolutely.
“Do you believe that what Jesus said was the Truth? (John 1)”
- Completely.
“Do you believe in the Trinity? That God created Heaven and Earth? Jesus has both human and divine natures in one person? Jesus ascended into Heaven? Forgiveness of sins? Life everlasting? Or are they merely symbols?”
- I do believe all of that....but you are attempting to conflate things here. The question was about the “literal” interpretation of communion. Jesus meant symbolically speaking, not literally. Has nothing to do with anything else.
“How does one eat and drink a symbol? How does a symbol give everlasting life or not eating a symbol one has no life? (John 6:53)”
- One must symbolically interpret the eating and drinking of the communion wafer as Jesus’s mortal body. Since I am not Catholic, the literal stance of communion makes no sense to me. Jesus did not intend for it to be taken “literally”... in my humble opinion and understanding.
“Do you believe that Jesus as God can change bread and wine into his living Body and Blood? How is it a misunderstanding and causing confusion?”
- Jesus through God, and God, can do anything. It’s your misinterpretation that is in question here. You have misunderstood what Jesus meant, I think.
“I am trying to understand your opinion and not argue with you.”
- I’m trying to help you understand my stance. Thanks for the discussion.