No one comes
to the Father unless the Father draws us and pulls as along by the Holy
Spirit. Confessing Christ is not a cold hearted decision based on benefits.
One might ask is the pull resistible? It is predestination?
The fact is when he calls and we accept we remain his.
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Why does
Christ push this literal understanding of his body being the bread;
this bread is my flesh?
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When he
said and did this he was his with his disciples at the last supper;
his literal body was still intact.
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The same
can be said about the claims of the cup being the blood.
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His
description of bread and wine being the body and blood is shocking and
antagonistic. However, those who understand, (read again John
6:53-59), feed on the bread that came down from heaven; unlike the
manna that came down from heaven which would spoil. This
provides life forever.
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For
those who did not understand and were offended were being culled.
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Those
who following for the bread, like the feeding of the five thousand,
left him when he transitioned to the bread of life. Again it was
a culling process.
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It was
the non-serious who were leaving.
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For some
they learned - believed - and stayed. They are the one who God
turns sinful and evil into what is good.
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God
turns the cross into a symbol of victory.
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God
chose to redeem us with all of our faults, he lives in us by his
spirit and so we will live eternally with him. This is the
Easter story again.