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May 10, 2023 · The Scandal of John 6. The following piece is an excerpt from This Is My Body by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire Publishing), highlighting a section from pp. 71-77. All four Gospels have an account of the multiplication of the loaves and fish. St. John’s version of this story can be found at the beginning of the sixth chapter of his Gospel.
Our utter neediness is seen clearly when set against the greatness of his offer: Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day (v. 54). Jesus is promising a new quality of life now and resurrection in the future. He says, my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink (v. 55).
- The Scandal of The Particular
- The Scandal of The Historical
- The Scandal of The Material
The first scandal of the incarnation is the scandal of the particular. In Christianity, the condition of possibility of our existence is revealed not as an abstract, universal principle, but as a particular person: Jesus Christ. Note that Christ is not merely the one in or through whom revelation takes place, as if he were the mouthpiece or conduit...
The second scandal of the incarnation is the scandal of the historical. The Bible does not claim that the incarnation instantiates an eternal relationship between God and his creation, or that it illustrates an unchanging reality, but that it is a one-time event that took place at a particular moment in calendar history—an event, indeed, that cleav...
The third and final scandal of the incarnation is the scandal of the material: Christ came not as a pure idea but with a normal body with all its normal limitations and functions. For those who labor under the Enlightenment prejudice that ultimate reality must be a pure, abstract and universal, the notion that God could have a body is indeed a scan...
When you are assembled, and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (1 Corinthians 5:4b-5 RSV) Three times in this passage the apostle says very clearly what action is to be taken.
Jul 27, 2017 · How the Church Should Address Scandal. The church knows that sin generates shame in the convicted heart on its own power. Operating from its supernatural posture of humility and love of neighbor, the church does not use shame as a paddle for its disgraced children. The mirror of the law does its work by the Spirit of truth without malevolence.
Aug 19, 2018 · The words flesh and blood imply this incarnate Christ has given his life in a violent death. His flesh has been broken. His blood has been shed. The life of the world is gained at the expense of the death of God. God became man and died on the cross, and now offers his flesh and blood to eat. That’s the scandal! III. The Food of Jesus
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Apr 1, 2020 · This is made evident, for example, by placing the following texts side by side: Glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s (I Cor. 6:20); Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit (II Cor. 7:1); and, We are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul (Heb. 10:39) 1,2
