When I was a catholic, I believed He meant the bread was literally His body. Now that I am an ex catholic, I don't believe it at all. He meant it figuratively, because we are prohibited from drinking blood. That would be cannibalism. I am not into that. You can drink blood if you want, I won't do it. Cannibalism is evil, and I don't want to be evil. I understand things much better, now that I am an ex catholic. I am waiting for Gabriel to blow his bugle. Then we will see who has their stuff together. Have a nice forever. I KNOW I will. 😇 You can take that to the bank. 🏦
We all get hung up on what ‘Jesus said’. So let’s see what he said and what it means to me...
Jesus said, ‘this is my body’
Jesus said, ‘this is my blood’
Catholics talk about Transubstiation, Protestants about Transliteration. So let’s look at what he said...
He did not say ‘this becomes my body’, He did not say, ‘this represents my body’. He said this IS my body, this IS my blood.
Take it for what he said. It does not become, it does not represent, It is!
There is now cannibalism in that.
Your comment: “When I was a catholic, I believed He meant the bread was literally His body. Now that I am an ex catholic, I don’t believe it at all. He meant it figuratively, because we are prohibited from drinking blood. That would be cannibalism. I am not into that. You can drink blood if you want, I won’t do it. Cannibalism is evil, and I don’t want to be evil. I understand things much better, now that I am an ex catholic”
So did the bread taste like flesh and blood? So in your mind you are a cannibal. So what made you lose your belief?
While, I don’t know you, my assumption is that you didn’t leave the Catholic church because of your belief or lack of belief in the Real Presence.
What makes you different than the Jews in John 6 that did not believe and no longer followed Jesus?