#12718 More Protestant Objections to John 6—Answered - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Does John 6 really teach the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, or are Catholics reading too much into the passage? In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Catholic Answers apologists continue responding to major Protestant objections to the Catholic interpretation of Jesus’ Bread of Life discourse. The discussion examines whether Jesus’ failure to clarify misunderstandings proves literal intent, how Catholics answer the Old Testament prohibition against drinking blood, and whether John 6 is truly connected to the Eucharist despite John not including the Last Supper narrative. Additional questions address figurative language about never hungering or thirsting, what Jesus meant by promising eternal life, and where the Gospel of John fits among the four Gospels. A detailed biblical defense of the Eucharist and the Catholic understanding of John 6.

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Questions Covered:

10:01 – Catholics argue that since Jesus didn’t clarify the literal thoughts of his listeners then he must have intended his words to be taken literally. But Jesus’ lack of clarification for misunderstandings is nothing new under the sun. He did it in John 2:15-17 concerning his teaching about destroying the temple of his body.
16:37 – Jesus can’t intend us to literally drink his blood because the Bible prohibits the partaking of blood in Leviticus 17:10-12.”
21:22 – Catholics appeal to John 6 to prove Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist. But John 6 has nothing to do with the Eucharist at the Last Supper.
30:15 – Where does John Fall among the gospels since John does not contain the last supper?
35:04 – If Catholics take Jesus’ words to eat his flesh literally, then would also have to take his words literally in verse 35 when he speaks of never hungering when we come to him and never thirsting when we believe in him.
45:57 – If Jesus meant his words literally—and intended us to engage in a physical act to eat his flesh, then we’d have to take him literally when he says that we will never die.

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0:35.7	different apologists they like here at Catholic Answers,
0:38.0	different topics they like. I find I'm always having the most fun when we're talking about
0:43.2	scripture. I like getting to talk about scripture. I know you're probably like, I like philosophy.
0:49.9	I like both of them. Do you? Yeah. And so I'm really enjoying getting to talk about John Chapter 6 today with you. Our guest is Dr. Carla Broussard. Here's a couple of his most recent books. Baptism Now Saves You How Water and Spirit Give Eternal Life. And then the latest one, the saint. I have in the right order, right? Or did I do it backwards? You did them backwards? Oh, the penultimate one.
1:12.9	Fancy? I just used a fancy word right there. The saints pray for you, how the Christians in heaven
1:20.3	help us here on earth. For those of you who are young and mostly text, penultimate means the one
1:26.6	just before the last one. It's not the ultimate one. I shouldn't make fun of people who text. That's rude. I apologize. Can we just stop the show and we just start over again? We can't. It's live. Text them in the studio and let them know. I'll send them. I'll shoot him a text. Yeah, I'm not a good text. Are you a good text? I'm not, man. I don't even know, like, all of that. I have to ask my kids, like, what does this mean? What is this abbreviations? Oh, the abbreviations. Oh, I know. And I'm always sending it with, like, misspelled words, always having to edit it. Oh, my gosh, I sent one the other day where I didn't know
2:03.0	that I had, I put in what I wanted, and then I did it by talking into it, and then I didn't know
2:11.0	that it was still going, so I was just talking to it. And then I sent a text that has my text on
2:17.2	it and then a conversation
2:18.4	after it. It was embarrassing. For me, it can't recognize my accent sometimes. So when I try to,
2:26.5	this is Carlo from Southern Louisiana, you know, and I try to talk into it with my accent,
2:31.4	when it comes out, it won't read it appropriately. But then Jacqueline,
2:35.5	my wife, she'll talk into it and it'll read it perfectly. Well, she does speak perfectly.
2:40.6	Indeed, she does. That is one of her features. And my name is Cy. So if I go, hey, this is Cy
2:45.8	or something like that, it's always S-I-G-H or something like that. It doesn't,
2:58.2	Cy's not a real name according to text. I feel like you should be able to train your own phone to talk to, like, listen, phone.
3:00.9	Whenever I say sigh, you put CY. You've been my phone long enough to know what I'm talking about, Mr. Phone.
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