Hello
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Thanks
for your question. It’s good to see that you are asking
questions and pondering about things and wanting the truth. Well done!
Hopefully
what I have written below will help you. If not
please don’t hesitate to get back to me.
DO WE
DRINK THE BLOOD OF JESUS?
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. John 6:53 (KJB)
Catholics
believe we eat the actual body of Jesus and drink
his actual blood.
How can
this be true when we read in the same chapter
the following four verses. This is called reading a verse in
its context
– what do the other verses around it say. The other verses give it the
proper
and real meaning.
Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me
hath everlasting life. John 6:47 (KJB)
This
means if you never had the Lord’s supper, you’d still go
to heaven.
What
did the jailer say? And brought them out, and said,
Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the
Lord Jesus
Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Acts 16:30-31 (KJB).
No
water baptism here or eating Jesus or drinking the blood of
Jesus here.
As the
living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father:
so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. John 6:57-58 (KJB)
Did
Jesus eat the physical Father in heaven? Of course not.
Jesus is talking about feeding spiritually of his heavenly Father - not
eating
the flesh of his Father in heaven.
This is
that bread which came down from heaven: not as your
fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread
shall
live for ever. John 6:58 (KJB)
In the
desert the Jews had physical bread and died. Jesus says
“You need the spiritual bread come down from heaven.” You see
previously in the
same chapter, Jesus performs the miracle of feeding the 5,000 (Jn
6:10). So in
contrast, Jesus says don’t go after the physical bread, but come after
me the
spiritual bread from heaven.
Labour
not for the meat which perisheth, but
for that
meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall
give unto
you: for him hath God the Father sealed. John 6:27 (KJB)
It is
the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth
nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they
are
life. John 6:63 (KJB)
Jesus
says “You can eat the Lord’s supper ten times a
day and fifty times on Sunday if you like, but it won’t do you a scrap
of good.
The physical bread will not give you eternal life.”
Furthermore,
can Jesus correctly refer to the juice of the
grape as blood. Of course he can.
In the
old testament we have the following:
Butter
of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams
of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat;
and thou
didst drink the pure blood of the grape. Deut 32:14 (KJB)
In
addition, we have
Binding
his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the
choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the
blood of
grapes: Genesis 49:11 (KJB)
Furthermore,
is Jesus an actual door when he says
Then
said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, I am the door of the sheep. John 10:7 (KJB). Are we
actual
sheep? Of course not!
Is
Jesus an actual vine? Are we actual tree branch? Of course
not!
I am
the vine, ye
are the branches: He
that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:
for
without me ye can do nothing. John 15:5 (KJB)
Dear
_______, if this isn’t enough proof for you at this
stage, I can go on and on, but this should be sufficient for you at the
moment.
But please don’t hesitate to get back to me though, if you have further
questions.
People
get a bit silly when they read a verse out of context.
In fact they just march right into hell with their beliefs about what
they
think the Bible means rather than what it says.
Three
verses for you:
Study
to shew thyself APPROVED UNTO GOD, a
workman that
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Tim
2:15
(KJB). You
will study to show yourself approved to God not me or any
other person here on earth.
For the
time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves
teachers,
having itching ears; 2 Tim 4:3 (KJB)
As also
in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things;
in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are
unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures,
unto
their own destruction. 2 Pet 3:16 (KJB)
God
bless and keep up the good work. I think you are doing
very well.
Pastor
Harley Hitchcock
The King James Bible Church (for ABM)
Australian
Bible Ministries, PO
Box 5058 Mt. Gravatt East 4122 Qld, Australia
www.AustralianBibleMinistries.com