A Real and Significant Biblical Contradiction?

[spockrates]

Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."

In other words, Jesus told his congregation "EAT ME!!" and they took him seriously.

Jesus was a professional troll, born before the internet age. What a pro.

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Spock, what are you trying to discover? What questions are you looking to have answered? What about religion so provoked you to question as you do? Honestly it's quite admirable.
Still, I'm looking for the end point to this questioning. I can think of a number of things, but I don't want to put words into your mouth.

I would never equivocate, "eats my flesh" with "eat me" but the idiom of eating flesh and drinking blood was well known to his ancient Jewish audience to mean killing someone. However, in the context of the rest of John, chapter 6, the analogy doesn't seem to fit.

Some Protestants claim the words, "eats my flesh and drinks my blood" mean "believes in me." Catholics claim he was speaking of eating and drinking the bread and wine served at Mass.

The end game is to find the answer to the opening post. I want to examine the reasons why others believe I've found a real and significant contradiction.

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Myths? Perhaps. Unrelated? That remains to be seen!



Regarding the text you quoted, the Bible is pretty clear that death is a process. No need to quote verse after verse, but if you need one:

Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."

(John 6:53)

The living are not fully alive, he seems to be saying. Paul even goes so far as to say Pagans are walking dead!

I'm not saying the same of anyone here. Just making the point regarding the consistency of the biblical teaching that death is a process. We are all born to die, unless something is done to change this process.

Nah, it's ambiguous on that point /sarcasm. There are no "real" or "significant" contradictions in the bible. You've made that perfectly clear as the judge of both counts (and the thread title left no room otherwise in any case). It's a wonderful exercise in confirmation bias though.