Another poster once asked: What if Jesus comes tomorrow and it turns out these scriptures mean exactly as they read?
I agree. What if John 6 means exactly what it says? What if Matthew 16:18-20 means exactly what it says, and makes Peter the head of the apostles, and thus the entire Church, and his successors the same?
John 6 means exactly what it says when the whole context of the book of John is found in Chapter 20 And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
When you get to chapter 6 the idea of believing is the focus of the chapter.
28 Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”
29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall 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 by no means 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 the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. 40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
7 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me[fn] has everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life
60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard
this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?”
61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you? 62
What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and
they are life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe.”.
What is the words Jesus spoke are Spirit and this whole discourse is about believing in Jesus for eternal life and has nothing to do with a cannibal ritual? You know when Jesus turned the water to wine the headmaster noted that the best wine was now brought out instead of the inferior. When the priest says the prayer that wafer still tastes like wafer and that wine is still wine. This is not a transubstantiation. This doctrine is bad and it is not found in this chapter.