The Jericho Connection | John 6: Does Jesus Really Want Us to Eat His FLESH and Drink His BLOOD? @thejerichoconnection3473 | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 22 minutes ago.
In John 6 Jesus says that he is the bread of life and that unless we eat his flesh and drink his blood we don't have eternal life. Was Jesus speaking literally or metaphorically? According to the metaphorical interpretation, embraced by most of Protestant traditions, Jesus simply meant that we need to believe in him. Eating his flesh and drinking his blood would be a metaphor for "absorbing" every single word of Jesus. But does this interpretation explain the data? Is it possible to satisfactorily explain John 6 if he hold to the metaphorical interpretation? And if Jesus was talking literally, what did he mean? Is he asking to perform cannibalism?
In John 6 Jesus says that he is the bread of life and that unless we eat his flesh and drink his blood we don't have eternal life. Was Jesus speaking literally or metaphorically? According to the metaphorical interpretation, embraced by most of Protestant traditions, Jesus simply meant that we need to believe in him. Eating his flesh and drinking his blood would be a metaphor for "absorbing" every single word of Jesus. But does this interpretation explain the data? Is it possible to satisfactorily explain John 6 if he hold to the metaphorical interpretation? And if Jesus was talking literally, what did he mean? Is he asking to perform cannibalism?
