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But Christ's command was to eat the bread and drink the cup...Who gave the RCC authority to change that and when?

It's the same Christ in the consecrated bread and wine,dear sister,nothing was changed with God and the Holy Trinity since He is outside of time and unchangeable.God allows us reach into the eternal Christ at the Consecration of Bread and Wine

Do you believe Christ is eternal and always existed?

It's the same Christ in the consecrated bread and wine,dear sister,nothing was changed with God and the Holy Trinity since He is outside of time and unchangeable.

That apparently is man's philosophy talking and not Jesus...Jesus said 'eat the bread' AND 'drink the wine'...I don't see where Jesus gave anyone the option to take away from his command...

If you don't drink the wine, you are out of the will of God...We are to drink the wine for a reason...

Is not the command for communion for the bread AND the cup?

1 Corinthians 19:15-16 15 I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. 16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?

1 Corinthians 11:23-30 23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

Jesus didn't seem to think it was the same or else He would not have given the bread AND the cup and commanded to eat AND drink.

So again I ask, Who gave the RCC authority to change that and when?

Don't Catholics hold the words of Jesus recorded in Scripture above all else? Why don't they follow His instructions then?