What did Jesus really mean in John 6:53...??? “Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.” Rome teaches that the words of Jesus are “literal” (if this were true, the “host” would not “contain the blood” ) in contradiction to verse 63 where Jesus explains that the words are not literal, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” Since one is forbidden to interpret what Jesus said (i.e. “the words that I speak ...they are spirit”), one is forced to take the Roman Catholic’s interpretation (i.e. “the words are literal”) or risk being labeled a “heretic”. Rome teaches that you can only get this literal “flesh and blood” by coming to a Catholic priest at the Mass where he will miraculously change a piece of bread into “God” by an act called “transubstantiation”. Remember, Jesus said, “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have NO LIFE IN YOU.” So, if you have to literally eat Jesus or you have “no life in you”, and the only place to get His “literal flesh and blood” is through one of Rome’s priests, you are now the prisoner of Rome. Your salvation hangs in her balance. If she withholds the “flesh and blood” from you, you “will perish”. See how easy it is to privately interpret one scripture and thereby enslave all men to yourself? Again, how convenient! Had the Catholics been allowed to study and interpret, they might have read all of John, then they would have seen these words: “And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst…And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:35, 40) When considering the Catholic Eucharist, I wonder why Rome did not take the words of Jesus in Matthew 15:17 literally? Do you not see and understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the abdomen and so passes on into the place where discharges are deposited? (Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary) All these additional doctrines -- most often pagan in origin -- continuously evolved over the years and are a far cry from the “present truth” in which Peter told us to be established. Peter also warned us that false teachers and false prophets would come. “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.” (2 Peter 2:1-3) Like · · Share
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 10:19:05 +0000