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Jesus Of Jesus Research Paper

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The people told Jesus to perform a miracle if He wanted them to believe. They told Him that Moses gave the Israelites manna to eat, saying “The Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven to eat.”
Moses was just a man who had faith in God and tried to follow God’s will as best as he could. God gave the manna, Moses was just the one who told them what it was and how to gather and prepare it. The people worshiped Moses over God and asked Jesus “What can you do”? They wanted Jesus to prove He was greater than Moses.
The Israelites who came out of Egypt saw the works of God and the faith of Moses and they still did not believe. Had Jesus showed these who followed him across the lake a miracle they would have been just as hard hearted …show more content…

He tells them that He lives because the living God sent Him and therefore anyone who feeds on Him will live because of Him.
This can be a hard teaching to understand. What is the “Flesh” of Jesus? What is His “Blood”? To understand this we have to understand a couple of things.
First, when He says we will live, He is talking about our spirits. Our bodies will face death and decay. They will be raised one day and glorified, but still they will die. The Scriptures clearly teach whoever believes will not die but have eternal life.
Our spirits die by being separated from God. We must be fed spiritually in order for our spirits to live. What do we feed our spirits on? The Word of God. Who is the Word of God? None other than Jesus. Unless we feast on the Word our spirits will weaken and begin to die.
Now, why must we drink His blood? The Law prohibited the drinking of blood because life is in the blood. When we drink Christ’s blood, we are drinking from the cup of salvation. We are taking His life inside of us. In other words we are accepting Him as our personal savior. It is by His blood that was shed that we are cleansed of our

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