#Resogun hard copy series#

The people in the audience in the door and vine passages don’t interpret Jesus literally, as they do in John 6. This comeback fails because the door and vine passages are disanalogous to the bread of life passage.

Like in John 10:9 and John 15:5, we should interpret him figuratively.

#Resogun hard copy series#

Protestant apologist Todd Baker bolsters this argument by highlighting the fact that Jesus’ words in John 6 are part of a series of “I Am” statements in John’s Gospel.īaker argues that this “I Am” statement clues us in to how we’re to understand his words concerning the bread he will give, which he identifies as his “flesh,” and that we must eat it. If Catholics interpret Jesus’ command to eat his flesh and drink his blood literally in John 6, then they have to take him literally in other passages when he says he’s a door (John 10:9) and a vine (John 15:5). “Jesus meant his words figuratively, as he did in John 10:9, when he spoke of himself as a ‘door,’ and in John 15:5, when he spoke of himself as ‘the vine.’” Let’s take a look at a common comeback from Protestants when presented with the bread of life discourse. He affirms his disciples’ literal understanding by letting them walk away. In response to the Jews, Jesus reiterates the need to eat his flesh and drink his blood no fewer than six times in six verses. In verse 52, the Jews respond, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” In verse 60, his disciples respond, “This is a hard saying who can listen to it?” You would think that if his audience were mistaken, and given the gravity of this teaching, Jesus would have corrected their literal understanding. But perhaps the most persuasive is that both the Jews and his disciples understand him literally, and Jesus doesn’t correct them. There are many reasons Catholics, and other believers in the Real Presence, give as to why we should take Jesus’ words, “eat my flesh, drink my blood,” literally. The Catholic Church teaches that when we partake of the Eucharist in Holy Communion, we are literally consuming the body and blood of Jesus Christ.Ī key passage from Scripture that Catholics, and other believers in the Real Presence, have looked to throughout the centuries as biblical support for this teaching is John 6:48-67.