Contradictions and Paradoxes in John 6:49

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According to John, Jesus is saying that even though the Israelites' ancestors ate special bread from heaven long ago, they still died. He is teaching that there is something even better than manna that can give life forever.

John 6:49: Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

Contradiction with John 6:50

Explains eternal life through the bread from heaven, contrasting mortality from manna.

John 6:50: This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

Contradiction with John 6:51

Emphasizes Jesus as living bread for eternal life, unlike the fathers who ate manna and died.

John 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.

Contradiction with John 6:58

Reinforces the difference between eating manna and eating the bread (Jesus) for eternal life.

John 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.

Contradiction with Hebrews 9:15

Discusses eternal inheritance through a new covenant, superseding prior promises.

Hebrews 9:15: And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions [that were] under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Contradiction with Romans 6:23

Contrasts the wages of sin (death) with the gift of God (eternal life through Jesus Christ).

Romans 6:23: For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 15:22

Highlights universal resurrection in Christ, contrasting with death from sin.

1 Corinthians 15:22: For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Contradiction with 2 Corinthians 3:6

Differentiates between the old letter (law leading to death) and the Spirit (giving life).

2 Corinthians 3:6: Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. [giveth life: or, quickeneth]

Contradiction with Hebrews 3:17-19

Points out disbelief and consequent death of forefathers in the wilderness.

Hebrews 3:17-19: But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
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