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Paul's point is that by consuming the bread and wine together, participation in communion is symbolically participating in the body and blood of Christ. Symbolic ... not the real presence of His blood and body invoked by an earthly priest.
Matthew 26:26-29
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body." Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom."
Even Jesus himself stated that what was in the cup was from the fruit of the vine (symbolic of the blood of the covenant)
A blood covenant is a promise made by God that He will choose a people for Himself and bless them. The covenant was for Abraham’s physical descendants and also Abrahams spiritual decedents in the future ... to all those who, like Abraham, believe God (Galatians 3:7; Genesis 15:6). God’s promise of eternal blessing is given only on the basis of faith in the saving blood of His Son, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 9:12).
Communion serves as a memorial (brought to mind) of Christ's death as symbols for the realization of a spiritual union between Christ and the believer. Same as with baptism ... symbolic of us dieing with Him and being resurrected. Communion was instated by Jesus Himself during the Last Supper before his death. When we take communion, we are remembering Jesus' sacrifice on the cross.
I mean really ... are we to think ... Jesus drank his own blood and physically ate his own body. Of course not ... It's obviously symbolic ... was symbolic then and is symbolic now.
The word of God is highly symbolic ... not exclusively. It is not uncommon at all for the Lord to use the literal to help us better understand the spiritual.
It's all about what God/Jesus has done for us and us believing and trusting in the promises He made ... from the beginning to the end.
You keep going on and on about your own opinion of things. Now, you're certainly welcome to have your own opinions, but you are not the one who decides these things. Christianity has held since the beginning that the bread and wine of the Eucharist become the body and blood of Christ. That is a given. If the writer of that article you linked to was being honest with you he would have quoted Justin Martyr:
For not as common bread nor common drink do we receive these; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by Him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nourished, is both the flesh and blood of that incarnated Jesus. - First Apology
But instead he chose to mislead you by cherry picking quotes from the Church Fathers and even then demanding that they said what he wanted them to say. Now, the bread and wine becoming the body and blood began somewhere. It's quite plain that it began at first with Paul, then all four of the gospel writers and on to the Church Fathers then right down to the Church today. If that is not the case, what is?
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