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"For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed"

And this is supposed to void

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. (Genesis 9:4)

Of course, Jesus's words come later in time, so they supercede Genesis, right?

But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity." (Acts 21:25)

Of course James was just a Judaizer, what did he know?

"This is my Body" is not at all the same as "this is kinda sorta like my Body"

So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. (John 10:7)

Which is not at all the same as "I am kinda sorta like the door of the sheep".

And this is supposed to void

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. (Genesis 9:4)

You expect me to eat a dry well-done steak?

Which is not at all the same as "I am kinda sorta like the door of the sheep".

You dropping into Pope-speak? I am-a kinda sorta likea the doora of the sheepa.

Of course, Jesus's words come later in time, so they supercede Genesis, right?

Paul's words "supercede" the Genesis "everlasting covenant" of circumcision (well, maybe not for you.) but Jesus' words don't mean anything.