April 8, 2019

The Same As On The Cross

In commenting on the following passage,

“I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world … Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you” (Jn 6:51,53),

the son of a fundamentalist preacher and Catholic convert wrote:

“Jesus says the bread of life is his flesh. Lest we not understand whether he means ‘flesh’ in a real, physical, touchable way, he tells us next that it is the same flesh that will be given up on the Cross! He goes on to say that this flesh must be eaten by his followers.”

Source: Currie, David B., Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic (San Francisco, Ignatius Press, 1996).

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