Posted on 12/12/2013 7:50:01 AM PST by GonzoII
Eternal life.
Are you making up the supposition that the raised people appeared to all?
You do not know what I think — personal attack.
And Protestants and other non-Catholics don’t do the same thing? LOL!
When Jesus died on the cross and rose again on the third day he defeated death. Believe in Him and you will have eternal life. Catholic 101.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
It seemed to me that you were saying that Jesus was speaking symbolically when he said you had to eat his flesh. Or why did you say "the flesh is of no avail"?
When he said "the flesh" is of no avail He was saying that the carnal man cannot accept what He is saying, Rom 8:6-9 and 1 Cor 2:14-15 explains what the term "the flesh" means. If Jesus was only speaking symbolically why did the Jews say "how can this man give us his flesh to eat?" and why did Jesus not correct their "error"? and why did they walk away?`
"His BLOOD was shed for the remission of our sins, not His flesh. Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin."
His flesh which contains His blood was given for the life of the world, you cannot minimize that fact: Jn 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Joh 6:52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
"Eating blood is strictly forbidden by the Law."
And circumcision is commanded by the Law, so do we have to keep that law? We are no longer under the Mosaic Law. Jesus knew the prohibition against drinking blood and yet still insisted that we would have to eat His flesh and drink His blood and He let the unbelievers go away.
"One of the only commands reiterated in the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15 was the prohibition against eating blood.
That was a temporary concession for the sake of the Jews which was later lifted.
I will let St Paul HIMSELF defend the words of Christ:
1Co 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
An august Catholic Church Father not believing in the real Presence? I don't buy it:
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