MenuFor adult study: "The Bread of Life"
Children will use a one page handout that includes a coloring picture. The story summary and questions were written in a way that makes it possible to use a New Testament reference in place of the Urantia reference. A selected chapter from a 1932 book, titled Treasure-House of the Living Religions, supports a spiritual theme that is found within the story.
Children will use a one page handout that includes a coloring picture. The story summary and questions were written in a way that makes it possible to use a New Testament reference in place of the Urantia reference. A selected chapter from a 1932 book, titled Treasure-House of the Living Religions, supports a spiritual theme that is found within the story.
Paper 153:0-3
The Urantia Book
The Urantia Book
The food which endures to everlasting life
Students may read Paper 153:2.8 or all of sections 0-3
The people looked for Jesus after he fed a crowd of five thousand with a small amount of bread and fishes. At last, they found him in Capernaum and heard him speak in the synagogue about the bread from heaven. He said this bread comes down from the Father and gives eternal life to his children on earth. Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life.” But the people were bewildered. They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?”
Discussion Questions
When the people searched for Jesus, what were they hoping for? The bread of life is different from the bread we eat to nourish our bodies. The bread of life nourishes our souls. What is the soul? Jesus helps our souls to grow and flourish.
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Additional reading:
This paragraph contains a famous quote, which has been expanded to include "the bread of life."
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Re: Bread of Life
159:3.8 The world is filled with hungry souls who famish in the very presence of the bread of life; men die searching for the very God who lives within them. ...
179:5.3 ... “Take this bread of remembrance and eat it. I have told you that I am the bread of life. ...
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New Testament reference
Thanksgiving Day C and Proper 13B, 14B, 15B
The Revised Standard Lectionary
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Chapter 15—Future Life and Immortality—p.65
The soul goes to the highest heaven, and there develops
Into its natural form; obtains perfection,
Enlightenment, deliverance and final beatitude;
And puts an end to all misery. (Jainism)
God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave;
For, He shall receive me. (Judaism)
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