brightfame52
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Lol and you know better than thatbecause you know you are wrong.
John 6 the context
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brightfame52
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When he is made alive, the choice has been made and he is saved from death, duh
This is true. Humans, a creation of God, were created in such a way that they must eat and drink several times a day in order to maintain life. They are created in a manner in which "Learning" is how they grow and prosper. A Child "learns" to nurse. "Learns" to walk. "Learns" to talk, and so forth. The instinct to "learn" is placed by God into the mind of humans. And they instinctively look to their mother and father for instruction in what is acceptable food, drink and behavior, both literally and Spiritually.
God, through His Begotten Son Jesus the Christ, uses this creational fact to teach those who would recognize God as their Spiritual Father, just as Jesus recognized the Same God as His Spiritual Father. The word "eat" is mentioned over 100 times in the New Testament alone, and hundreds of times in the OT as well. The very First recorded Law that God gave to His Created humans, pertained to "what to eat, and what not to eat", in order to have the Life Promised by the God and Father of the Lord's Christ.
So from Genesis to Revelation, the "context" of eating, drinking and behavior, which shows what a man believes, is extremely important to understand. In John 6, the teaching is centered around "Passover", a Feast of the Lord given by the God and Father of the Lord's Christ, to remind us every year on the importance of the event, as it represents the beginning of God's Salvation and the importance of the "Life" (Blood) of the Passover Lamb of God, in our mind and behavior, (two door posts and Lintel) or as it is defined by Paul and James His "Works".
Followed immediately by another Holy "Feast of the Lord", Feast of Unleavened Bread. This Feast, also pointing out the importance of what we eat, represents the life of men who have chosen the God of Abraham as their Father, through His Son, the Lord's Christ. A life of resisting "leaven" which represents sin, which is transgression of God's Word.
God has given us, according to Paul, the "Gospel of Christ" which reveal for those who are seeking, HIS Righteousness and His Wrath against ungodliness and unrighteousness. These men, who deny themselves and the religion of their fathers, and have "turned to God" as their Father instead, this same God gives to Jesus for saving. This Jesus is the Advocate, the Mediator between men of Faith (belief) and their adopted Father, the God of Abraham.
HE teaches His People, as Jesus says in Matt. 6, "what to eat, what to drink, and what belief to be covered with.
Matt. 6: 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and "his" righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
It is through consuming "His Word" that we grow in the knowledge of God, that we might know Him, "who is able to save us from death".
It is through this Context that Jesus spoke in John 6.
This is the truth for sure. The Mainstream religions of the world God placed His Son Jesus in, didn't believe Moses, or the God who sent him. As a result, they didn't believe Jesus when HE exposed the religion of their fathers, and taught them to "Live by" every Word "of God".
They had rejected the "food/Word" of God, and had created their own judgments concerning what to eat and what to drink. They were guilty of the same sin as Eve.
2 Cor. 11: 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
This too is true, Jesus and His Father gave the same testimony, the same witness, the same teaching as where to find "what to eat, what to drink, and what to be covered with". These were taught to Him by His Father, and HE believed the teaching which was shown to others by His Works.
John 10: 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
We too, through Him, can deny the religions of our earthly fathers and, as Paul teaches, "Repent, Turn to God, and bring forth "works, worthy of repentance". These would be the "Works" God before Ordained that we should walk in them, spoken of by Paul in Eph. 2.
Jesus also explains this in Matt. 7, when He Prophesied about the Judgment day, when "many" who called Him Lord, Lord, will "appear before the judgment seat of Christ", speaking to Him for the first time, face to face. He continued to point out how important it is to deny ourselves and become a "Doer" of Christ's Sayings, not just a hearer. Paul promoted the same Gospel.
2 Cor. 5: 9 Wherefore "we" labour, (The "WE" here being those who had repented, turned to God, and were bringing "Works" worthy of repentance") that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. 10 "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ"; that every one may receive the things done in his body, "according to that he hath done", whether it be good or bad.
This is why, in my understanding, that Jesus was so adamant about the importance of a man's "works", and whose "Words" they consumed.
John 6: 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, "ye have no life in you."
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. 66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
It was these men who became of the "many" who Jesus talked about, that called Him Lord, Lord, but refused to become servants of God's Righteousness, as the Gospel of Christ taught. The same as those Israelites who fell in the wilderness, even after receiving the same Gospel.
Yes, context is very important.
