Quote Originally Posted by tealblue View Post
This is basicaly where our differences start to show in verse 27. Jesus is comparing meat that fills us physically to meat that fills us spiritually.
Agreed.

[/QUOTE] Some versions say meat and some say food.[/QUOTE]

No problem.


[/QUOTE] Either way the ***umption is that the word meat or food symbolizes a spiritual ONLY meaning.[/QUOTE]

How can this be an ***umption? He clearly stated, do not work for food that perishes. After making a preparatory statement like that, is He then going to turn around and offer food that perishes in place of the food that perishes? This is a total contradiction. Why would God contradict Himself?





[/QUOTE]In our view Jesus is talking of a both physical and spiritual food. He says in verse 27 that this food is something that he will give us.(meaning he hasn't given us yet)[/QUOTE]

How can you have a "view"? Taking the conversation at face value, with the information that has been given up to this point, how can you draw the conclusion that He is contradicting Himself by saying don't work for physical food, but BTW I'm going to give you physical food that I just told you not to work for? If these are the rules of conversation, then why converse? All one has to do is say two contradictory things in the same sentence and then no matter what the listener hears, you can tell him he didn't hear correctly. By definition this is not conversation nor the purpose of conversation. By definition this is called confusion. What say you?