So you would have been one of those who walked away when Jesus said it is His flesh?
I ask this as the son and brother of Methodists and the father of a non-denominational Christian who do not believe as I do, and I pray that God accepts them for their devout belief in Jesus.
But I am also a cradle Catholic and the son of a Catholic deacon. I truly believe that at the Consecration, Jesus becomes the bread. Keep in mind, the bread does not become God, God becomes bread. If God can become man, why can He not become bread?
We don’t argue about it. I am not going to convince them and they are not going to convince me.
Thankfully, we can read the words John recorded and understand what Jesus was saying in context. Jesus is comparing himself to the manna that fell from heaven saying that he is the spiritual bread from heaven.
He ends the discourse explaining that he is speaking about the spirit not the flesh.
John 6
60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?” 61 But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble? 62 What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before? 63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
The Alter-Christ claims that the physical body of Jesus gives life, Jesus said it profits nothing. Who should I believe, Jesus or the Alter-Christ?