To non Catholic Christians let's talk John 6:34-69

[Bai Lan]

I'll gladly walk through it with you.

Indeed he does. John 6:48 says "I am that bread of life". Luke 4:4 says "And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God." (which is a quote from Deuteronomy 8:3). The beginning of John also explains how Jesus IS The Word of God.

Thus, akin to how physical bread feeds and fuels our physical body, the Word of God (Jesus) feeds and fuels our spirit (our true self). Jesus alone can bring us eternal life (through his suffering and death on the cross). That's the vital truth that Holy Communion is recognizing/remembering via one's partaking in the bread (Jesus' body) and the wine (Jesus' blood). The bread and wine don't literally change into Jesus' body and blood though. Holy Communion is not cannibalism.

In John 6:51, Jesus was prophetically referring to his death on the cross, not to any sort of cannibalism.

No, Jesus IS the bread from heaven. What he is associating (in those passages) is our physical need for physical bread with our spiritual need for "spiritual bread", aka the "bread from heaven", aka himself (and his ultimate sacrifice for our sins).

?????

all these adrenochrome addicts want vampirism.

 

[Yakuda]

I'll gladly walk through it with you.

Indeed he does. John 6:48 says "I am that bread of life". Luke 4:4 says "And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God." (which is a quote from Deuteronomy 8:3). The beginning of John also explains how Jesus IS The Word of God.

Thus, akin to how physical bread feeds and fuels our physical body, the Word of God (Jesus) feeds and fuels our spirit (our true self). Jesus alone can bring us eternal life (through his suffering and death on the cross). That's the vital truth that Holy Communion is recognizing/remembering via one's partaking in the bread (Jesus' body) and the wine (Jesus' blood). The bread and wine don't literally change into Jesus' body and blood though. Holy Communion is not cannibalism.

In John 6:51, Jesus was prophetically referring to his death on the cross, not to any sort of cannibalism.

No, Jesus IS the bread from heaven. What he is associating (in those passages) is our physical need for physical bread with our spiritual need for "spiritual bread", aka the "bread from heaven", aka himself (and his ultimate sacrifice for our sins).

?????

Yes he did say he was the bread from heaven then said this bread is my FLESH

again the cannibal argument is just flailing

 

[gfm7175]

Yes he did say he was the bread from heaven then said this bread is my FLESH

... then said "which I will give for the life of the world".

Jesus sacrificed himself that we might have life through him. When we receive Jesus into our lives, we are partaking the "bread from heaven".