[narses]

"For those that come to that cross with a repentant heart He promises eternal life."

Really? What about (John 6:54-59)?

What about:

Jesus said to them: "I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh." (John 6:48-52)

[RnMomof7]

In verse 53 we read:  “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.”  Here it appears that Jesus is using highly evocative language to express the necessity of belief in Him.  This interpretation gains plausibility in light of what Jesus has already said in verse 47:  “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.”   Further confirmation can be found back in verse 35:  We already know that Jesus is “the bread of life.”  But the rest of the verse tells us:  “he who comes to me will not hunger, and he who believes in me will never thirst.”  This language strongly suggests that “eats my flesh” should most likely be taken as a metaphor for coming to Jesus, while “drinks my blood” is most likely a metaphor for belief in Jesus.  Further confirmation for this is found in John 7: 37-38, where coming to belief in Jesus is metaphorically expressed as drinking:  “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.  He who believes in me, as Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”(Michael Taylor )