You've Got a Choice to Make: Jesus Quote #5

Jesus has always been a polarizing person.

As much as pop culture wants to paint Jesus as this first-century hippie, roaming the land sounding like Ringo Starr ("Peace and love"), he always demanded an either/or choice from those who wanted to hang around him.

"Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again." (John 3:3)

"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)

"I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” (John 6:51-58)

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Truth is...This whole train of thought was brought about by the following 17 words:

"Who is Jesus? The answer to that question is a matter of eternal life and eternal death." ~ Stephen Nichols