Thinking out of the Box

What is going on here with all thids talk about eating His flesh and drinking His blood?
The Jews of Jesus' day, as with some Christians of our day, are unable to think outside the box. Some have constructed a very narrow and restrictive doctrine of scripture which comes close to idolatory. Jesus tells us that the word is like a signpost pointing to God and to Himself- when we say that the word is truth we need to understand also that Jesus is the word in the flesh and that He sets us free.

Thinking in the box limits us and restricts us but Christ sets us free. Our evangelical tradition led me to believe that Christians had to be protestant and unionist and from the evangelical tradition.

The Pharisees saw the Torah as something which sets out the rules for living and keeping the detail was vital and led to salvation as the work that pleases God- Paul said that Jesus was the end of the Torah. Yet Jesus did not abolish the Torah, He completed it. It was abhorrant to the Jew to drink the life blood of an animal and yet Jesus says-"drink my blood and eat my flesh" and He was not advocating cannaballism or a breaking of the Torah but He was, surely, advocating thinking outside the box!!