What does true bread from heaven mean ? Does it have anything to do with the Word of God ?

Question

Is the Word of God, the bread ?

When Jesus said you must eat my flesh, was he talking about the Word of God ?

Is this how our spirit is fed, not of the bread we eat, but of the bread from heaven, the Word of God ?

If this is true, would not the Words of men be false bread ? if so would it not be better for us to us to hear the Words spoken by Jesus ?

Of all the answers, most of us agree that the Words Jesus spoke is the Word of God. ---- So I ask, if we agree that the bread is the Words Jesus spoke, why don't the churches preach to us his words, but keep from us his words is it for the following reasons, for the next verses are also the Word of God, taken as the true Word what do they mean as a whole ;

The words you need to hear are found in;
John 1:17
John 6:32
John 10:7
Luke 24:25
Matthew 11:11
John 4:41
and Luke 4:6 and 4:9
John 4:21-22
John 3:14
John 8:44
Matthew 5:19

Answer 1

yes
you are very inquisitive.

Answer 2

Yes he was speaking of himself the Word.

When he instituted the new meal that would commemorate his death just before his arrest he said, "Take eat, this means my body."--Matt 26:26. The loaf meant Jesus' own fleshly body "which is to be given in your behalf."--Luke 22:19; 1 Cor 11:23, 24.
A year earlier, Jesus had contrasted "bread that comes down from heaven, with the manna eaten by the Israelites in the wilderness and had plainly stated: "I am the bread of life." He showed that he was "the living bread that came down from heaven," adding; "If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever: and, for a fact, the bread that I shall give is my flesh in behalf of the life of the world."---John 6:48-51. This 'eating' would have to be done in a figurative way, by exercising faith in the value of Jesus' perfect human sacrifice.---John 6:40.

Answer 3

-Yes, Bread For Our Spirit,
-Yes, For United Our Flesh in Jesus Flesh in Spirit,
-Yes, Bread From Heaven is Word Of God, We Can Read in Bible,
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Answer 4

It's a metaphor for knowledge. Yes, it has everything to do with the knowledge of God being given to you. This is why I believe rituals can be misleading. People have to justify 'the ritual' somehow in their mind. A belief system about it has to be established. Otherwise, what would be the point of doing something repetitive all of your life?

We cannot hear the words, as spoken by Jesus. We can read what other men wrote about what Jesus said, hundreds of years after the fact...

Answer 5

The Word of God is all of the Scriptures, not just the words spoken by Jesus while he was in human flesh.

True bread from heaven is a figure of speech meaning God's Word.

Which means teaching from the Apostle Paul is just as authoritative as quotes from Jesus in the Gospels.

Pastor Art

Answer 6

There are two ways of looking at that metaphor: 1) bread from heaven meant the wisdom, insight and salvation Jesus came to give us and 2) that when Jesus said to eat his flesh, he was making himself -- his actual material body -- the ultimate bread from heaven.

That's why Catholics believe that the host (the white piece of flour and water) that they take at Mass is not a symbol, but the actual body of Jesus "under the appearance of bread and wine."

They believe that when they go to communion, they are eating Jesus's body and drinking his blood and in that way become more perfect as the Mystical Body of Christ.

Answer 7

Yes, it's referring to the Word of God, but more I think. I think, and this is just my opinion so feel free to disagree, is that it's referring to the sincere study of God's Word, not just the book, but what He reveals to you as you study it. God is very much at work in the hearts of those who seek Him, and He wants us all to come into a personal relationship with Him. He wants to be your Heavenly Father, and that doesn't happen automatically. It is not enough to read the Word, but one must study it and meditate on it if Truth is to be found. This is what nay-sayers and atheists will never understand. They will never know the works of God within their hearts because they have closed themselves off to Him, and He doesn't force His way in.

Answer 8

Bread you have to eat for your body to survive, The Word of God you have to believe for your soul to survive.

God Bless

Answer 9

Question- "When Jesus said you must eat my flesh, was he talking about the Word of God ?"

No, that would be cannibalism. Some early religions praticed that.

As for our spirits, we are pure energy and have no need to eat.

Answer 10

"man cannot live on bread alone".ya, we need to feed our sprits with the word of God. But when He said eat of my flesh, he aslo meant literally, like when we take communion, the bread symbolizes the sacrifice he made for us.

Answer 11

Jesus is the bread from heaven.

The Eucharist

"Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, 'Take, eat; this is my body.' And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, 'Drink of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.'" (Mt. 26:26-28)

Jesus is spiritually present in the bread. It is unleavened, pure as Jesus was pure. It has dark stripes, as His back was striped by Pilate's scourging. It is pierced, as He was pierced on the Cross. Once it was the bread of life for Israel on the desert, as Jesus is the Jn 6:35 Bread of Life for all mankind. During the Seder, the head of the family takes three pieces of unleavened bread, reminding us of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. He breaks in half the second piece, suggesting the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity crucified. He then wraps one of these two pieces, called the afikomen (Hebrew: festival procession), a reminder of Jesus' constant call, "Follow Me," in white linen, reminding us of Jesus linen burial cloth, and "buries" or hides it, as Jesus was entombed. Later the youngest at table "resurrects" or finds the afikomen as Jesus rose from the dead. The head of the family then breaks the afikomen and passes it around for all to eat, as Jesus did when He told His apostles, Lk 22:19 "This is My Body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of Me." In that way, Jesus through the Seder calls us to follow Him into His death and resurrection, to become a new person in Christ.

The unleavened bread also reminds us of the haste with which the Israelites left Egypt. The dough that they were sunbaking on the hot rocks of the Egyptian fields was removed before it could leaven, and so remained flat. It represents our need to remain ever alert and prepared for the day when God calls us to our destiny as Jesus told us, Mt 25:13 "Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour."

The New Testament accounts describe the Holy Eucharist as Jesus gave it to us. The term "bread from heaven" becomes fully clear only when we reach the Revelation to John. The Gospels Christ said at Capernaum. Jn 6:51 "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 knew that He was speaking literally. Jn 6:52 "How can this man give us his Flesh to eat?" On other occasions when our Lord spoke of Himself as a Jn 10:9 "door" or a Jn 15:1 "vine," nobody said, "How can this man be made of wood?" or "How can this man be a plant?" They recognized these as metaphors. But when Jesus insisted, Jn 6:53 "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." The Jews who heard this said, Jn 6:60 "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?" They remembered God's command to Noah and all mankind, Gn 9:4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood." God spoke more forcefully to His chosen people. Lv 17:10 "I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people." It was only after Christ's redemptive sacrifice and the Holy Spirit's enlightenment that the Apostles saw the full meaning of our Father's next words. Lv 17:11 "For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life." In the Old Covenant our Father in heaven had commanded His children not to eat the blood of animals because we are not to participate in the life of animals. Animals, having no immortal souls, are lower than man in the order of created nature. However, in the New and Everlasting Covenant we consume the Blood of Christ to participate in Christ's eternal life.