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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Yes but only in Mat does he use the symbolic gesture of Bread to represent his broken body and wine to represent his spilled blood.
It proves my first point about it being a figure of speech.
In the first verse he wasn't speaking of eating bread or drinking wine. He was speaking of His flesh and blood.
Here he uses bread and wine to SYMBOLIZE them
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The fact remains, when Jesus actually taught on eating His body, drinking His blood, it contained real elements, bread and wine. I'm not arguing if the bread and wine was symbolic or literal, that's for another time. My point is that Jesus plainly identified bread with His body and wine with His blood and the same reference to eating His body and drinking His blood is in both passages.
How does one eat the body, drink the blood of Jesus? Jesus Himself gave an example in scripture to follow.
This will result in eternal life, according to Jesus....
Joh 6:53 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.
Joh 6:54 "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Joh 6:55 "For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink.
Joh 6:56 "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
Joh 6:57 "As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.
Joh 6:58 "This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever."
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