I have taken communion in church. I have eaten the little crackers, and drank the grape-fruit juice. And I have given quite a lot of thought to the covenant that I was entering... That is, what does it mean to me? That has not always meant that I have agreed with the preacher about what it meant. In fact, there have been times where I have refused communion because of the interpretation that the preacher was offering.
Yet, I can't help but feel there is something about this song that feels RIGHT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwCRjFnun-A
This song is done quite well. But the question is, will "just any old interpretation do" or are there a class of correct and incorrect interpretations?
I don't know if I come to any solid conclusions here about what is "correct" but I do think that we should be able to at least eschew an "incorrect" view.
https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=eat+body&qs_version=NIV
References to Matthew and Luke.
https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?qs_version=NIV&quicksearch=drink+wine&startnumber=61
Horrible connotations for "drink wine". The poisoning of Jesus on the cross. The fact that John the Baptist never drank wine. The desire to drink more fermented wine. Luke 7:33 seems to suggest that eating bread is the sign of someone with a demon. Strange. John 2:10 implies that Jesus offers wine to people who have already had too much to drink. Romans 14:21 simply recommends not drinking wine at all, because you will tempt people to sin. Paul writes to Timothy to have at least a bit of wine. And Revelations refers to the "Maddening Wine of Babylon's Adulteries." and the "wine of gods fury."
Okay, a search of "Drink Blood" https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=drink+blood&qs_version=NIV brings up some other hits:
1 Chronicles 11:19 , and 2 Samuel 23:17 has King David pondering whether to drink the blood of three mighty warriors.
Ezekiel 39:19 says at the sacrifice, we will "eat fat till you are gutted, and drink blood till you are drunk."
This is essentially what the Christians have been doing; eating the fat of the lamb.
John 6:53-56
53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
Luke 22
Mark 14
Matthew 26
John 6
I have been called a "covenant breaker" because I don't acknowledge JJJJR as the truth. But I think that a careful comparison of these versions of the covenant is deserved. The covenant with body and blood of Jesus, given in Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22, and John 6. In the version of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, there is no controversy about what he said. They fled Jesus because he was being arrested, and he said he must fulfill prophesy.
Mark 14:51-52 shows why everyone fled. Because they didn't want to get seized.
In John's version, they left him because he was promoting cannibalism. And I don't know whether it is by intention or coincidence, but John 6:66, seems to convey the same disunity as Book 66, Chapter 6, under the 6th seal.
You say I am claiming there is a conspiracy, but you are wrong. There is no conspiracy. JJJJR is just one singular beautiful liar.
John uses the number of the beast 666 to condemn everyone with a spirit of truth or a true spirit of faith.
John 6 fulfills the prophecy of https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah+11:14-16&version=NIV
John gives a view that leads to division and strife. A correct understanding of what Jesus wanted from his sacrifice should lead to unity.
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