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To: MurphsLaw
Why don't you believe in what Jesus said and did?

I do. He said the flesh profits nothing, that it’s the Spirit who gives life and the words He spoke were spirit and truth.

If y’all are so bound and determined to believe what Jesus said and taught, are you still calling your priests “Father?”

95 posted on 10/03/2023 11:34:35 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: metmom
I do. He said the flesh profits nothing,
that it’s the Spirit who gives life and the words He spoke were spirit and truth.


Really ?
Christ is saying YOUR sinful flesh- MY sinful flesh - profit NOTHING.
Our Worldly pursuits profit nothing

HIS FLESH, which was Sacrificed for us, is everything Isn't it?

Why do you persist in this verse pretend game?
Either Jesus contradicts himself in God-Breathed inerrant scripture-
OR
He SAYS what he means 4-5 times! in a row! (Emphasis Mine):

53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat
THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN
and drink his blood,
you have no life in you.
54 WHOEVER eats MY FLESH and drinks my blood HAS ETERNAL LIFE, and I will raise them up at the last day.
55 For MY FLESH IS REAL FOOD and my blood is real drink.
56 WHOEVER EATS MY FLESH and drinks my blood REMAINS IN ME,
and I IN THEM.
57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father,
SO THE ONE WHO FEEDS ON ME WILL LIVE because of me.
58 THIS IS THE BREAD that came down from heaven.


He meant what HE said there, 4-5 times over.

And you wish to call this symbolic? Metaphor?
Did Jesus call himself a Door, a Gate or a Vine - 4 times in a row?
Did any disciples leave when He called himself a "Gate"?
You don't think those Disciples knew he was NOT being symbolic-
when they went away and left him?
Think.

Just exactly - or how many times do you need Christ to tell you to Eat His Flesh for Life within in Him?
6 times? 10 times? 20 times? How many would convince you?
Seems like Jesus is pretty dang adamant there,
trying to get you to understand that.

Would you have left him to as his many supposed disciples did?


If y’all are so bound and determined to
believe what Jesus said and taught,
are you still calling your priests “Father?”


Aren't you the same FRiend that chastised me for...
changing the subject?
;)


98 posted on 10/03/2023 2:07:49 PM PDT by MurphsLaw (46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not DO what I tell you?")
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