 that delivered them that one must eat and drink, but the words. May I advice you to be more careful next time in concluding anything without due investigation first. In Colossians 0:00, it says: "In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in his sight..." It is clear in the preceding verse that it is His body of flesh, which He offered through death. Your conclusion that it is the word that redeems is illogical because the word does not die, but the flesh. Through the death of the ‘sinless flesh' of Jesus, we are sanctified. The ‘we' I am mentioning is the Church of God, to whom these epistles were written for. Hebrews 00:00 clarifies that further. "By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." The Church, or the ‘we', is the entity being sanctified by the offering of His body of flesh. It is not the Church (as body) being offered as sacrifice, but His body of flesh, that the body or the Church maybe sanctified. (Ephesians 0:00-00) "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." The act of giving Himself for the Church sanctified it. How? Through the washing of water by the word. Which water will sanctify the Church? The water and the blood which oozed from the fleshly body of the Lord Jesus Christ. 