Two people, whoop-de-do, that's not counting the countless others who might have had other opinions, right...? Other "students", etc...?
And that's beautiful nonsensical twisting of scripture combined with man's words in that first paragraph, etc...
I'll ask you again, why is there absolutely no mention in the NT scriptures after Jesus about any kind of "transubstantiation" regarding communion at all, etc, "AT ALL", if they supposedly taught it or thought it was very important, etc...? Why, why, why...? No mention at all whatsoever... Why...? Or "why not", etc...? Especially if it is or was that important, etc...? I think there would at least be some mention of it if it was, etc... Or maybe, maybe there is no mention of it at all, cause they didn't even have those kinds of thoughts about it, now there's a novel thought or idea, right...?
Anyway, it was to "remember"... And things that are done or made or put into place to "remember" "another thing", usually mean "another thing", etc...
And I already tried to explain to you that his body or the bread is the Word of God, when Jesus talked about being the Word and the true bread that came down from heaven meaning the Word, or his words, etc, was his body, etc, and his blood, the Spirit, etc, recall that other people thought Christians were "drunk" when they were "full of the Spirit", or the Spirit fell down upon them, etc, it's also "fire", etc, and part of partaking of the wine or the blood was also spiritually symbolic of the baptism by fire or the Spirit, etc...
But people who want to take everything literally never understand anything symbolically or spiritually...
That a physical thing could mean something else in a spiritual sense just falls on deaf ears with them...
And it's not as if there is or was not plenty of that in the Bible right...? almost all physical things only being a "shadow" of things spiritually...? The true meaning of the thing being in it's symbolic or spiritual meaning, or it's spiritual reality, etc...?
Anyway,
Anyway, I'll even go so far with you that "even if" the bread was to be His literal flesh or physical body, and the wine his literal blood, He made it pretty clear that even those things were to parish and pass away, and were only a "shadow" or "shadows of" the "Word or Words of God" and the "(Holy) Spirit of God", etc, only "a shadow", etc, and those two latter things are the two things of most primary importance, etc...
And that is also what those things were to "truly mean you were "eating and drinking" and/or taking in", etc, making His physical flesh and blood of no importance since those things perished and went away when He did physically, but the Word and the Spirit are eternal and lives on, and are what we are to see ourselves "eating and/or drinking and taking in, partaking of", etc, when we have or do communion, etc...
God Bless!
