Christ: The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
Disciples: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Christ: For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Disciples: This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?
And many left Him.
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Orthodox: Communion is Body and Blood of Christ
Protestants: It's symbolic, we're not cannibals
Orthos: No, it literally IS His Body and Blood
Prots: That's pagan
Now, contrast this with:
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In short, the Evangelical understanding here is that Christ allowed the apostasy of people who understood Him correctly
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@banterwithb
You're skipping a bit that might be important, tho'.
In particular, the 'difficult teaching' fits more straightforwardly into being about 'coming down from heaven', not eating his flesh, because of what Jesus says next: "Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to…
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@banterwithb
It was a hard saying for me for a while too, and I think for some it's a rationalization to say that it's symbolic. It makes more sense however when you remember the context of Christ being the Word made flesh, and how the bread and wine are truly his flesh and blood.
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@banterwithb
You know those verses you are quoting were said years before Jesus talked about communion right?
This passage is from when he fed the multitudes and they asked for more bread. So he said that he is the bread brought down from heaven. Nothing to do with “Eucharist”
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