Feel free to look up a Greek lexicon because the words eats is in the aorist tense. That means if someone continues to eat the bread from heaven then they will live forever.
This is what aorist tense means:
an unqualified past tense of a verb without reference to duration or completion of the action.
John 6:51
51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
This is what aorist tense means:
an unqualified past tense of a verb without reference to duration or completion of the action.
John 6:51
51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
It means you eat and you continue to eat until it completes its job. which would be a person who comes to faith and is saved.
That could take days weeks or even years.. But once it has completed its workd. It is completed..
It does not need to be continually ate. because it completed its action. The words of eternal life have been enacted on.
But I also know reality
If we need to keep eating, then we will still hunger and still thirst and still die.. The promise is nullified..
the gospel message of the cross is the words.. You either believe them or you do not
whoever believes is not condemned
whoever does not believe is condemned already.
no place does it say they may have stopped believing and returned to condemned. It says they were condemned already