Is that why He was Crucified in the Flesh, and then rose from the dead in the flesh?
The bread, the flesh and the blood all symbolize the Word of God... to eat is to read, study, internalize and to nourish through the Spirit and make whole by the Truth.
Why is it, when Christians sit down to discuss and study the Bible, one faction goes totally anti-Catholic and says that anything that has to do with Jesus' Body being Real food, or His Blood being Real drink, it
MUST BE taken as symbolic, but the dimensions of the Ark of the Covenant, or the shape of the Cross
MUST be exact! That is doublethink and doubletalk.
If it is hard for you to believe, then you're in the majority. John 6:60-64 says. "Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard
this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit, and
they are life.
But there are some of you that believe not.
Then only His Apostles were left, and the rest of the truth is this:
Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.