Jesus is referring to Himself as the food that endures to eternal life. The point is that they were more concerned about eating than Him. This isn't saying you should work to literally eat the flesh of Jesus.
OK thanks for providing the link and your statements. Now let's examine what you've said,
RT said: "Jesus is referring to himself as the food that endures to eternal life"
My words: But that doesn't address the issue of what THEY were to do. Back to 27,
Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, Jn 6:27
The words,
but for obviously connects to the words spoken prior where they were told not to work for food BUT FOR ,means they were still to do a certain type of work which was different. It's the work of faith of they themselves believing which is an action term for what THEY were to do.
So if it were like the way you want it to read it would be,
Do not work for food that spoils nor work for anything at all! It didn't say that though! He kept alive the fact that they were to work by saying BUT FOR.
Again, just because they asked, 28 “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
Doesn't mean you can translate verse as 29 Jesus answered, “The work God requires is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
It most certainly
DOES and
MUST. For the question they asked him was born from what
HE in verse 27 CLEARLY stated that they must do a certain work. That's what Jesus said to them and that's what they asked him about! They were not confused that Jesus told them they needed to do a certain work!
What they didn't know was what that work THEY were to do was! So he told them in verse 29 the work of God THEY WERE TO DO was to carry out the action of believing. believing is an action word (a verb) of something THEY were to do. Believe. God was not going to do their believing for them. They had to do it.
Jesus answered correctly. It's the work of God to believe in the one he has sent.
So then they better stop right there and start doing it right? There's no way you can say no to this therefore proving it was something they needed to do. Not something God would do for them.
So there's really no denying it. Believing is a work that is required of MAN not God. So to readers the other poster may still seek to deny these things. I trust however you see the facts I've laid down above and you view them as credible and worthy of belief. God Bless!