I was on the website justforcatholics.org and read a tract called "Why Did the Disciples Leave". He juxtaposes two verses with similar construction Jn 6:40 and Jn 6:54
"Everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him at the last day" (v40).
"Whoever eats my flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day" (v54)
The author says that the similar construction means that to eat his flesh means to believe in him. My question is that eating someones flesh is biblical metaphorical language and means to violently assault them. See Is 9:18-20, Is 49:26, Micah 3:1-3, 2 Sam 23:15-17, Rev 17:6, and Rev 17:16. Why would Jesus use such language to mean believe in me?
Why? He hides the spiritual understanding from those he is not drawing according to
His faith .The same faith that works in those who do have the Spirit of Christ.
The Catholic must as a law of their fathers simply refuse to walk by faith (the unseen) they therefore need to make it after the literal as that seen to give the illusion the kingdom of God is of this world and we must walk by sight as if our understanding did come by observation.In that way they must make the commandment to walk by faith and not by sight without effect...so that they can serve that seen the flesh of men
I would suggest that without parables Christ, the word of God spoke not. Hiding the spiritual understanding from natural man while at the same time giving his kingdom of priest the honor to to search out his spiritual understanding as if searching for silver or gold .
To eat or drink spiritually is to do the will of another. It’s the kind of food the disciples knew not of.
Clean animals are used throughout the old testament.This is before the
time of reformation came when Christ said...it is finished. This was to represent the gospel in respect to the suffering of Christ beforehand hand and the glory that did follow.. the opening of the graves of the Old testament saints that did have the Spirit of Christ as the first resurrection .
Because of that we can see the gospel, the same gospel we look back to the cross is the same gospel those (tens of thousands of saints ) who were in the temporal presence of the bosom of Abraham as a temporal holding place before Christ said it is finished.
1Pe 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
To drink the literal blood of a sacrifice is an abomination .It must be poured out at the foot of the altar as was the literal blood of the Son of man to return to indicate its foundation, of lifeless, spiritless dust and water .
There are many references that show that kind of abomination (drink literal blood) when men refused to look to the spiritual understanding.
But as usual we are giving the honor to search out that understanding hid in parables . We compare the spiritual, unseen, to the same.
If we compare the parable (drink my blood in John 6) to another parable as to its spirutl understanding . It would seem being yoked with Christ easy to see that to drink the blood of of men as it related to the Son of man Jesus . Again God cannot die so to drink the blood simply and miraculously means to give ones Spirit life in jeopardy of His own Spirit.
Its never about the literal to what the eyes see.(no faith)
God simply gave the gospel beforehand through the parables so that they could walk by faith and not by sight..
The kind of drink
David longed for was the gospel . Christ comforted David using the temporal to give david the spirutl understanding just as he does with us. The parable below is loaded with metaphors to include drink the blood
And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.2Sa 23:14
To "drink blood" is to give who spirit life in jeopardy for another .God cannot die he give spirit life in jeopardy of his won .
When we drink of His blood we are exercising/working out (not working for to gain ) the faith of Christ that does work in us to both will and do His good pleasure .Just as it was imputed to David