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Old 05-08-2008, 05:32 AM
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John 6 has always been a battleground between Reformed, papists, and Lutherans. For example ...

v.56 - "eats my flesh" is literally "much/gnaw/chew on my meat" (trogon mou sarkos). Papists make much of this though the Reformed (rightly IMO) understand this to be a reference to faith.

v.63 - "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing." Whose flesh profits nothing ... Christ's? Then we're going to have real serious trouble holding to this line and believing in John 1:14.

As an ex-Lutheran (who always hated the notion of "consubstantiation" because, like "transubstantiation", it depends upon Aristotelian categories) I have found John 16:7 to be a guide in understanding the notion of Christ's real presence in Holy Communion.
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