marhig
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Joh 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
Joh 6:48 I am that bread of life.
Joh 6:49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
Joh 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Joh 6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
Joh 6:58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
Joh 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Joh 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Joh 7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Col 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Col 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Rom 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Rom 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
LA
Nothing there says that we can't eat from the tree of Life without the natural shed blood of Jesus on the natural cross.
I don't understand how people can't see it's not the natural blood? We can't drink his natural blood or eat his natural flesh! It's not Christ's natural flesh and blood that is saving us, it's his blood within, his life within, when we believe and take all of him into our hearts. And once we are born of God and walk in the Spirit, his life covers us, and our old life is seen no more, our old man is dead and mortality is swallowed up by life, and others see the life of Christ in and through us.
I agree with you on many things LA, but on this I don't, God doesn't need a human sacrifice to atone for sin. Jesus was a living sacrifice baring witness to the truth and through him we are saved, because he is the only way, he is the truth and his life is the only life, he lived it out perfectly, never sinning, and he is our perfect example to follow.
We are saved by the grace of God through faith, life saves not death!