You prove the point - - was Christ a door? A vine? A cornerstone?
No? Then he DID use figurative language. Just as he did at the Last Supper.
Oh, ye of great misrepresentation.
Hoss
ROTFLOL
Sure, everyone has been wrong from Jesus Christ Himself & the Apostles right through the fifteen
hundred or so years up until the wonderful enlightenment of
Self and Self Alone came along.
The next sentence, And the bread, which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord ?, is just trivia and not noteworthy at all, right? LOL, sorry, the real blood and the real body of Christ are present in the Eucharist.
Christ said it, I believe Jesus Christ, people who insist that the Word made flesh was a fumble nut who couldn't make Himself clearly understood are free to continue making that argument.
Some people have faith in Christ, others follow Eve and place their faith in their Self, that's the bottom line.
The really interesting thing is that it's always Scripture Alone folks who stomp their little feet and yell, "that's what Scripture says, but that's not what it means" whenever something doesn't fit the currently adopted "Christian" lifestyle.
Divorce, serial polygamy, infanticide by "contraception", tattoos, body piercings, cohabitation before marriage, all now one-hundred and eighty degrees from what was taught less than a hundred years ago. Such is the fruit of "Scripture Alone" and "Faith Alone"
Both are but smoke and mirrors from the same serpent who encouraged Eve to rely on her Self.