I don’t understand why non-Catholics who take the Bible so literally in other senses, do not take the passage about the Last Supper and the Institution literally.
Perhaps you can explan that??
If non-Catholics are sola scriptura believers, then wouldn’t they believe this Scripture?
Unfortunately trying to wrestle the true meaning of the Eucharist from the Sacred Scriptures can be no different for a Catholic than it is for a protestant. Personal interpretation cannot be the starting point, as it is fallible. Through the eyes of Faith the signification and consignification found in the Sacred Scriptures becomes most evident, and the theological works of the Early Church Fathers and Doctors of the Church form an organic whole. I would hope that some might take the time to read the resources you post, but any conversion of heart would have to be a work of Grace, a gift of God. I’m not sure that arguing with a fellow Christian with one scriptural interpretation after another will effect any positive change.
“How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace.”
In the Byzantine liturgy, the post Communion hymn reminds us that: “We have seen the True Light, we have received the Heavenly Spirit, we have found the True Faith, and we worship the undivided Trinity, for the Trinity hath saved us.”
Go read my posts in this thread including to you, and my link to more, and interact with that rather than avoiding the answer by parroting a defeated polemic which has been exposed, with your false concept of taking the Bible "so literally."
And that it is Rome that engages in reducing literal events to allegory. But just as Catholics evidence they are unwilling to engage in objectively analysis of Scripture, and only seeks to use it to support traditions of men, you fail to interact with the weight of the evidence against your use of the literal hermeneutic you demand here.
And you also failed to answer my question to you in post #50.
“If non-Catholics are sola scriptura believers, then wouldn’t they believe this Scripture?”
Because the Jimmy Swaggart crowd say Catholics are not Christians and had nothing at all to with the early Church, and the church fathers were more protestant than Catholic. They give the Catholic Church credit for nothing. They put Catholics in the same league as Mormans and Johovva Witnesses, all preaching a false doctrine. We are all going to hell except Jimmy Swaggart and his ilk.