23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
24and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
25In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
26For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
27Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.
Except when it's "just a metaphor", right?
Metaphor already demonstrated, illustrated and explained.
John 6 - a good example of a chapter where "
nobody bites Christ"
a good example of a chapter where nobody looks up in the air and
sees bread floating down
John 6
35 Jesus said to them, “
I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst. 36 But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. 39 This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. 40 For this is the will of My Father, that
everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
... 48
I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven,
so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the
living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
54
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. 56
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. 58
This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.”
... 63
It is the Spirit who gives life; the
flesh profits nothing;
the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?” 68 Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go?
You have words of eternal life.
Indeed the "WORD" became flesh and dwelt among us - the symbol of bread for the Word.
And
again in Matthew 16 -- another chapter where nobody bites Christ.
11 How is it that you do not understand that
I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 12 Then they understood that
He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread,
but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
