Jesus said "Except ye drink my blood" sure it was only a figure of speech, but why even say such a thing?

Question

Was it to get attention or what? His earlier talk about his blood was that is would cleanse sin.

But why talk about drinking it too?

Excuse me, but that's weird.

YES I KNOW HE SAID IT'S SUPPOSED TO WASH SIN.
BUT WHY TALK ABOUT DRINKING IT??
IF IT'S A CLEANING AGENT, IT AIN'T A DRINK! HELLO??.

Answer 1

This is just nonsense added much later, Jesus never said this.

When Paul was run out of Jerusalem by the real apostles for his heresy he hid out in turkey near the city of tarsus. He was having no luck converting the locals who were mostly mithrans who believed in blood sacrifices to appease the Gods.

Paul decided to incorporate the mithran idea of blood sacrifices into his version of Christianity. He started teaching the idea that the blood of Jesus washes away the sins of the world and all of the drinking of blood and eating of flesh that goes with it.

This was an instant success. The Romans took note of this when they took over Christianity in the 3rd and 4th century and kept it as a part of church doctrine.

This is how something that Jesus would never have thought in his wildest dreams came to be a cornerstone of christian doctrine.

Your right, its weird and I has no place in christian doctrine.

love and blessings Don

Answer 2

I think He was growing tired of the avalanch of irrelevant questions that people were hounding him with. He deliberately meant it to sound harsh, and there is no way in retranslation, you can get around it. Why would the saints have this written into the new testament? It is pretty jarring, and out of context for Jesus.
- Many people left off following Him from that day on.

Answer 3

Perhaps this will help you understand what Jesus said.....?

(Hebrews 9:20-to-28) Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.

(Heb 9:21) Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.

(Heb 9:22) And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

(Heb 9:23) It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

(Heb 9:24) For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

(Heb 9:25) Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;

(Heb 9:26) For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

(Heb 9:27) And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

(Heb 9:28) So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Thanks, RR

Answer 4

In Catholicism, the belief is that the bread and wine are literally transformed into the body and blood of Christ. Not symbols, but the literal items. They get this idea from quotes exactly like the one you have mentioned. This is the doctrine of transubstantiation, and you'd be surprised how many Catholics aren't aware of this.

Answer 5

It could have been a test. Jesus' statement may have sounded shocking to all of his disciples. However, only his true followers stuck around to find out what Jesus meant by what he said. The ones that left were not his true disciples.

Answer 6

As your 2 answerers right here in the previous me (Muhammad and Khalil Ullah) have observed, a real Muslim might might desire to kill the infidels (all and sundry against them). for this reason I take people who say they're Christian or Muslim (or in spite of faith) with a grain of salt... because of fact to truly BE a practicioner of Christianity or Islam maximum of those human beings might might desire to be residing an completely different life variety. maximum of them might desire to in no way somewhat stay as Christ did and positively stay their concept to its fullest. And maximum "Muslims" might desire to in no way combine into this international and be a "faith of peace" because of fact they might might desire to assist terrorism. Christians and Muslims are political events now owing to their leaders. Believers and followers of "God" are extra possible while they are not linked with the church/mosques.

Answer 7

I think he was speaking symbolicly. We are to take the essense of his words and our belief in him into ourselves. We are to be sustained (spiritually) of course, as if Jesus was food and wine.

Not a very good metaphor really. And many christians don't actually think its a metaphor at all, but literal truth.

Answer 8

Because it was not a figure of speech. Jesus warned them to think spiritually, not carnally.

Jesus replied, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst." At this point the Jews understood him to be speaking metaphorically.

Jesus first repeated what he said, then summarized: "‘I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.’ The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’" (John 6:51–52).

His listeners were stupefied because now they understood Jesus literally—and correctly. He again repeated his words, but with even greater emphasis, and introduced the statement about drinking his blood: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him" (John 6:53–56).

Notice that Jesus made no attempt to soften what he said, no attempt to correct "misunderstandings," for there were none. Our Lord’s listeners understood him perfectly well. They no longer thought he was speaking metaphorically. If they had, if they mistook what he said, why no correction?

On other occasions when there was confusion, Christ explained just what he meant (cf. Matt. 16:5–12). Here, where any misunderstanding would be fatal, there was no effort by Jesus to correct. Instead, he repeated himself for greater emphasis.

In John 6:60 we read: "Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, ‘This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?’" These were his disciples, people used to his remarkable ways. He warned them not to think carnally, but spiritually: "It is the Spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life" (John 6:63; cf. 1 Cor. 2:12–14).

But he knew some did not believe. "After this, many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him" (John 6:66).

This is the only record we have of any of Christ’s followers forsaking him for purely doctrinal reasons. If it had all been a misunderstanding, if they erred in taking a metaphor in a literal sense, why didn’t he call them back and straighten things out? Both the Jews, who were suspicious of him, and his disciples, who had accepted everything up to this point, would have remained with him had he said he was speaking only symbolically.

But he did not correct these protesters. Twelve times he said he was the bread that came down from heaven; four times he said they would have "to eat my flesh and drink my blood."

"The phrase ‘to eat the flesh and drink the blood,’ when used figuratively among the Jews, as among the Arabs of today, meant to inflict upon a person some serious injury, especially by calumny or by false accusation. To interpret the phrase figuratively then would be to make our Lord promise life everlasting to the culprit for slandering and hating him, which would reduce the whole passage to utter nonsense" (O’Brien, The Faith of Millions, 215).

The Greek word used for "eats" (trogon) is very blunt and has the sense of "chewing" or "gnawing." This is not the language of metaphor.

"It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life."
In John 6:63 "flesh" does not refer to Christ’s own flesh—the context makes this clear—but to mankind’s inclination to think on a natural, human level. "The words I have spoken to you are spirit" does not mean "What I have just said is symbolic." The word "spirit" is never used that way in the Bible. The line means that what Christ has said will be understood only through faith; only by the power of the Spirit and the drawing of the Father (cf. John 6:37, 44–45, 65).

Answer 9

ONLY the precious BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST can cleanse you of your sins. Everything is in the Bible. Read the gospel of John and you will find your answer.

God bless you

Answer 10

Jesus was a vampire fetishist back before Goth was even popular. He was ahead of his time.