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I've been curious as to why Catholics believe they ingest His Body and Blood, yet they make no mention of why they don't light up like glow-worms at night."THen spake Jesus again unto them, saying, "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." (John 8:12). Now THAT would be an argument they could PROVE happened, every night they partake of the Eucharist. WHy is one literal and the other figurative? Maybe because they are BOTH figurative??

As said before, if the RC claims made for her wafers were made for medicine that would be fined for false advertizing. The multitudes walk in and walk out as before, and where Rome has predominated here so has liberalism, in contrast to the decades here of evangelicalism which takes the word of God as being what man lives by. Which is what the Lord said, (Mt. 4:4) and thus His "meat" was to do the Father's will, (Jn. 4:34) and as He lived by the Father is how He defined eating and drinking Him in Jn. 6:57.

WHy is one literal and the other figurative? Maybe because they are BOTH figurative??

Maybe to find out which one is figurative we should go back to the early church and ask the early Christians what they thought. Or, we could just look at what St. Paul says 1 Cor 11 when he writes that he who receives the Eucharist unworthily is guilty of bad taste in desecrating a mere symbol.

Oh, wait ... maybe that's not what he wrote.

Understand your point and I hope I was clear in my previous post. Back in the day when someone said they interpreted the Bible literally, immediately people told them, "well when are you going to cut off your hand and pluck out your eye as Jesus tells you to do." No one in their right mind who truly understands literal interpreting would suggest to do so. They would say "we take the Words of Jesus literally when He is literal." Knowing well that Jesus as Rabbi used teaching methods familiar to the culture and time. This included what we call similtudes, parables, types/shadows etc. HOWEVER, each one of these similtudes, parables et al. teach us a literal truth.

The literal truth of the John 6 passage is what Jesus says in verse 29: "“This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.” After that the people still don't believe Him and want a sign. Then Jesus uses the sign of manna from Heaven to teach the literal truth of verse 29 in terms the people are fixated on...which is eating because He fed them earlier on.

>> why they don't light up like glow-worms at night<<

LOL Or have water gushing from their bellies?