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†. John 6:53 . . 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.
The kind of life obtained by correctly ingesting Christ's flesh, and correctly
imbibing his blood, is eternal life.
†. John 6:54 . .Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life
Note the tense of Christ's "has" verb in John 6:54. It's present tense rather
than future, indicating that people who correctly ingest his flesh, and
correctly imbibe his blood, have eternal life right now-- no delay and no
waiting period.
There has never been a time when eternal life didn't exist because it's the
kind of life that sustains God; viz: eternal life always was, it always is, and it
always shall be. In other words: eternal life is an imperishable kind of life
that's impervious to death, decay, and the aging process. Were that not
true, it would be possible to assassinate God.
That being the case, then the kind of life obtained by correctly ingesting
Christ's flesh, and correctly imbibing his blood, never wears out nor ever
wears off because in order for it to wear out or wear off, it would have to
die; which, by eternal life's very nature, is impossible.
So then, once someone obtains eternal life, they never need to obtain it
again seeing as how eternal life is imperishable; viz: eternal life is
impervious to the wages of sin (Rom 6:23) which means that it cannot die in
between confessions and/or in between doses of Eucharist.
Christ compared his body and blood to the manna that Yhvh's people
subsisted on out in the wilderness prior to their entry into the land of
Canaan. Manna was a nourishing food, but it was merely an organic
sustenance; viz: it was very nourishing, but it didn't have any life in it. No
matter how much of the stuff that the people consumed, manna couldn't
keep them alive forever. They eventually died. And the people couldn't get
by on just one dose of manna; they had to consume it on a daily basis or
risk dying of starvation because that stuff was the primary food that God
provided on their journeys.
In contrast, Christ's body and blood are far and away superior to organic
sustenance. His body and blood contain life; and the quality of the life is
such that people need to partake of it just once and they will live forever.
Now, the trick to obtaining this benefit is in correctly partaking of Christ's
flesh and blood. When people do it incorrectly, they fail to obtain eternal life;
ergo: they pass on with only human life; which is a perishable kind of life that
will not survive the Great White Throne event depicted at Rev 20:10-15.
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†. John 6:53 . . 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.
The kind of life obtained by correctly ingesting Christ's flesh, and correctly
imbibing his blood, is eternal life.
†. John 6:54 . .Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life
Note the tense of Christ's "has" verb in John 6:54. It's present tense rather
than future, indicating that people who correctly ingest his flesh, and
correctly imbibe his blood, have eternal life right now-- no delay and no
waiting period.
There has never been a time when eternal life didn't exist because it's the
kind of life that sustains God; viz: eternal life always was, it always is, and it
always shall be. In other words: eternal life is an imperishable kind of life
that's impervious to death, decay, and the aging process. Were that not
true, it would be possible to assassinate God.
That being the case, then the kind of life obtained by correctly ingesting
Christ's flesh, and correctly imbibing his blood, never wears out nor ever
wears off because in order for it to wear out or wear off, it would have to
die; which, by eternal life's very nature, is impossible.
So then, once someone obtains eternal life, they never need to obtain it
again seeing as how eternal life is imperishable; viz: eternal life is
impervious to the wages of sin (Rom 6:23) which means that it cannot die in
between confessions and/or in between doses of Eucharist.
Christ compared his body and blood to the manna that Yhvh's people
subsisted on out in the wilderness prior to their entry into the land of
Canaan. Manna was a nourishing food, but it was merely an organic
sustenance; viz: it was very nourishing, but it didn't have any life in it. No
matter how much of the stuff that the people consumed, manna couldn't
keep them alive forever. They eventually died. And the people couldn't get
by on just one dose of manna; they had to consume it on a daily basis or
risk dying of starvation because that stuff was the primary food that God
provided on their journeys.
In contrast, Christ's body and blood are far and away superior to organic
sustenance. His body and blood contain life; and the quality of the life is
such that people need to partake of it just once and they will live forever.
Now, the trick to obtaining this benefit is in correctly partaking of Christ's
flesh and blood. When people do it incorrectly, they fail to obtain eternal life;
ergo: they pass on with only human life; which is a perishable kind of life that
will not survive the Great White Throne event depicted at Rev 20:10-15.
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