When He says "this is my body"? What is there to misinterpret?
Edit: I wish I could change the title. Maybe it's too contentious. Forgive me.
Well first it is wrong to drink blood by God's law, or eat meat with blood in it(Acts 15:19-20,27-29; Acts 21:25), so taking this into consideration we must examine what is being said a little further.
Second the Lord was present at the last supper in the flesh, how did the physical bread and wine turn into his body and blood if he was still present in the flesh?
Thrid he is now back in his spiritual form and not in the flesh(appeared to Paul in the spirit-Acts 26:16; Flesh and blood cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven-1 Cor 15:44,50,52-53), nowhere does it say that his spiritual form turns back into flesh whenever someone partakes of the last supper. That is why the act of participating in it is said to be
a showing of Christ's death until his return and not him physically returning in flesh and blood when they eat and drink. It is what we do in remembrance of him, not what we do for him to return in the flesh so we can eat him.
1 Cor 11:
24And when he had given thanks, he brake
it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you:
this do in remembrance of me.
25After the same manner also
he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood:
this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup,
ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
Also not everyone is supposed to/can take part in this, as only those who are worthy can eat and drink, if anyone does so unworthily then they eat and drink their own damnation.
1 Cor 11:
27 Wherefore
whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of
that bread, and drink of
that cup.
29For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
Partaking in the act of remembrance for the Lord, which is the Lord's supper, is not a requirement but something that
can be done. It is not a law or requirement that we all do so but if we are worthy then we should want to, but only if we are worthy.
So scripture makes it quite clear that the Lord was speaking symbolically of his death and the blood he would shed for all mankind when he said to eat of that bread and drink of that cup.
Matt 26:
26And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed
it, and brake
it, and gave
it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat;
this is my body.
27And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave
it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
28For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
29But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.
His blood had not yet been shed for many for the remission of sins, how could his blood that was shed for remission already be present in the cup if he had not yet sprinkled it on the Altar in heaven to atone for us?
Hebrews 6:
19Which
hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast,
and which entereth into that within the veil;
20Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an
high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Hebrews 9:
24For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Hebrews 12:24
24And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than
that of Abel.
His blood was in his body not in the cup. He had not yet died so his blood of the New Testament could not yet be in the cup, only through the death of the Testator and with blood was the New testament and remission through Christ achieved/attained/Received.
Hebrews 9:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament,
that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is,
there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18 Whereupon
neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law,
he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop,
and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20 Saying,
This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
21 Moreover
he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and
without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary
that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but
the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For
Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true;
but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin
by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
When Christ said to eat of this cup and drink of this wine he spoke of his death(sacrifice), resurrection, and blood atonement(on the Altar in heaven) for all man's sins. He spoke symbolically of what must be done, and we keep the Lord's supper in remembrance of what he did. We keep it to show his death until his coming.
