With respect. The Bible is the authentic Word of God and thanks to the Baptists we have Biblical archeology in the Holy Land. My sister did her degree in Boston on the Baptists’ sermons in the 1830’s by very brave Baptists. High five. And please notice this simple puzzle. Why take the Bible literally if the following is discounted? “Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty” (John 6: 35). His substance really was in the bread at the Last Supper.
“And please notice this simple puzzle. Why take the Bible literally if the following is discounted?”
Baptists do not take the Bible literally. The Bible says “He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.” - Psalms 91.4 That doesn’t mean God is literally a chicken!
There is nothing to connect John 6 with The Last Supper, since no one present to listen to Him in John 6 knew of the Last Supper - which would not occur until much later.
And the scripture explicitly teaches that Jesus is NOT the bread and wine literally, to be taken in perpetual sacrifice:
“And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” - Luke 22 We are to take it to remember what Jesus did, not as part of a never-ending, perpetual sacrifice:
“He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.” - Hebrews 7
“24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, 26 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.” - Hebrews 9
Taken in context, there is no puzzle for me to solve.