{"id":1745,"date":"2012-03-03T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2012-03-03T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T15:40:38","slug":"does-john-6-teach-eating-is-believing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/does-john-6-teach-eating-is-believing\/","title":{"rendered":"Does John 6 teach &#8220;Eating is Believing&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Literally, it is a false statement &#8211; in John 6 literal eating is not the way of true belief. On the other hand, the discourse functions to show that eating is a metaphor for believing and in this sense the metaphor is perhaps better inverted: in John 6<strong> believing is eating. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In chapter 6:53ff., the evangelist is not emphasising the importance of the eucharist but pointing to an abiding belief in the &#8216;flesh and bloodness&#8217; of the incarnation, which is the true end of all eucharistic rites and Christian discipleship.<strong>This means that if John 6 is not about the eucharist, the eucharist is undoubtedly about John 6.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;David Gibson, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblicalstudies.org.uk\/article_midrash_gibson.html\">helpful journal article<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/does-john-6-teach-eating-is-believing\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literally, it is a false statement &#8211; in John 6 literal eating is not the way of true belief. On the other hand, the discourse functions to show that eating is a metaphor for believing and in this sense the metaphor is perhaps better inverted: in John 6 believing is eating. <\/p>\n<p>In chapter 6:53ff., [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor","tag-holy-communion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-s9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1746,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}