Naked Bible 012: The Lord’s Supper and the Gospels, Part 1

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

When I introduced this topic and series, I said that I’m convinced that this doctrine is one of the least critically examined of all biblical doctrines. This episode gets us into some territory that illustrates the pervasive influence of assumptions about this topic. Anyone who has studied the doctrine knows that it is linked to the Last Supper. They also know about the problem of John 6, the "bread of life" passage. But did you know that John 6 isn't in the context of the Last Supper? Most students don't, and the observation begs the question of whether the controversial "eat my flesh and drink my blood" wording in John 6 has anything at all to do with the Lord's Supper, despite centuries of assuming that it's central to the topic.

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0:25.1	Fellows nynxx
0:26.4	Nynxx
0:28.3	www.nakedbibleblog.com
0:32.6	Welcome back to the Naked Bible Podcast.
0:36.1	In the last podcast, I introduced the confusion created by a variety of ideas you'll hear
0:41.3	in church
0:42.6	and read in theology books about the Lord's Supper,
0:46.5	also known as Communion or the Lord's Table.
0:50.1	I made the comment that in my judgment, doctrinal teaching about the Lord's Supper is one of
0:54.9	the least critically examined areas of biblical teaching.
0:59.1	I meant that, and the last podcast introduced you as to why I do.
1:04.5	Additionally, as we closed last time, I gave you the list of New Testament passages which
1:09.1	touch on the subject,
1:11.1	those passages from which are understanding of the institution and doctrine,
1:15.4	ought to derive.
1:17.2	I hope you read those since I'm going to assume as much and jump right into the text.
1:22.4	The passages from the synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke,
1:27.2	are straightforward enough.
1:28.9	They simply relate the event of the last supper,
1:32.0	the event to which Paul referred to when writing about the Lord's Supper much later in
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