John 6:53 is Jesus teaching doubters about the reality of spiritual being. He used the creature aspects to show the spiritual is something one must receive into them to be born from above.
Had Jesus meant to teach the John 6:53 doubters, the seekers after signs, that one must eat the creature portion to receive the spiritual portion, would He have left that out in His discourse with Nicodemus, in John 3?
Those who have decided they have the truth they want, to support the pride they harbor in their 'striving for salvation', they will not see the spiritual lesson Jesus knew then was going right over the heads of the seekers after spectacular signs.
The Roman Mass is a blasphemy substituted fro the spiritual. The proof is the RCC claim that the wafer is transmogrified to be the crea5ture body and blood of He Who is now in a glorified Body, In Heaven. He Who has promised to be spiritually really amongst any three or more gathered faithfully in His name.
Gathering to repeat the pagan practice of eating the bread sacrificed to or as the god is not faithfully gathering in His Name. It is a demonic perversion of HIS TEACHING ... and it is capturing untold millions of souls to keep them from the moment of transformation and rapture to Where Jesus has been preparing a place for us.
It surely is. Amen.
The Bible warns us over the manner of our partaking of bread and cup for if we do so in an unworthy or careless manner, we become guilty of the blood and body of Christ. I am not so caught up into arguments over substance or change of substance, presence of Christ, ect; I think those are distractor arguments best left to conscience as the Lord may instruct the individual.
The black and white scripture says that when ever we should partake that we do so, in Remembrance of Christ, having examined ourselves, (resumably to ask forgiveness and then to ask for help in the repentance of such sin), and only then may we partake in a worthy manner. The black and white scripture texts say nothing one way or the other of what happens to the physical substance of the bread and cup when partaking of it but it does say what happens when you take it while being in a dark place spiritually! There is most certainly the Holy Spirit’s presence in the ceremony itself as the scripture itself infers, so whether Protestant, Orthodox, or Catholic, be humble and tread lightly when partaking of bread and cup!
What goes into mouth goes out thru the digestive organs as Christ says....the real transaction that takes place is spiritual! The Spirit renews us daily in our Inner Man anyway, even if we don’t take the Lord’s supper on that particular day!
Reference: 1Corinthians 11:23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night 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, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
27So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. 29For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. 30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. 31But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment.